Mihai’s 12-year IT journey covers dozens of projects in various roles and industries such as telecom, banking, gaming, media, and others. He has served as QA engineer, QA manager, product owner, scrum master, and business/data analyst for the likes of IBM, Huawei, Vodafone, Endava, and Societe Generale. With an in-depth understanding of the business environment and strong analytical and communication skills, Mihai is committed to providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems, and one of his greatest achievements includes setting up a QA department from scratch, along with a general test strategy and methodology/process implementation.
Developed and implemented databases, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality, also interpreted data, analyzed results using statistical techniques and provided ongoing reports.
Been part of Data Migration project, in which we have succesfully migrated data from the legacy systems to Azure cloud.
Been part of Data Science project, in which we have created a model to automatically generated a health score for patients (Health care industry).
Participated in Scrum Meetings, Shareholders, Customers meetings and Management meetings.
Created Initial Business Specifications for new features and products, organized Focus Groups in order to create a better UX and also worked close with the development team in order to assure that the specification are implemented correctly.
Created product Demos and presented them to the Stakeholders/Shareholders; Did retrospective after the implementation was finished and evaluated the team members based on their performance.
Working in an agile team, my main responsibilities were doing environment configuration, working with SAN, creating testcases, execution records, validating user stories, creating documents, doing maintenance on Linux/AIX/Win servers.
Generated and executed ER's based on the test cases created, identified defects in the product, submited and tracked their status.
Tools and Programs used: TPC/TPCR, JazzSM, DB2, RTC, RQM, VNC/Putty/various storage system GUI's such as XIV /DS8K
During my employment at Huawei, I have worked as a CRM engineer and a Business Intelligence engineer and I have successfully finished 3 projects. (In Madrid, Brussels and Amsterdam).
Created, reviewed and modified SQL procedures, ETL flows and BICP scripts. Resolved defects submitted by Test Team through SQL procedures.
Lead a team of 4 people (Third party contractors).
Created and tested documents with test cases, identified and reported game defects, created daily and weekly reports, coordinated a small team and worked close to the development team.
Reported the encountered issues in the data base, in a detailed and objective manner, assuring that complete information is being provided to the development team.
Tested game features by creating Test-Cases that would allow fast and complete product testing.
Established and managed a QA department, maintaining backlog and drafting requirement documents to enhance productivity, overall quality, and release frequency
Oversaw and mentored a team of 60 members, implementing the product's vision, strategy, and priorities
The project, titled 'Product Owner/WowApp', spanned over 2 years and now serves over 1 million users
Responsible for full life cycle development, implementation, and production support of ETL project in Business Intelligence Engineer/Base Telecom
Significantly contributed to review and modification of SQL stored procedures
Participated in workstream planning process towards the inception, technical design, development, testing and delivery of BI solutions with a team of 20 people