Mihai S.

Mihai S.

Bucharest, Romania
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About Me

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.

Database

QA & Testing

Workflow

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior QA Engineer
2019 - Present (6 years)
, Remote
  • Act as a key asset in the SM Upstack's team.

  • Helped teams by testing applications (web and mobile) and providing accurate test cases

  • Helping different clients with their vision of the product, strategy, and product priorities.

Endava
Endava
Data Analyst
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
, Romania
  • 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).

BRD Bank
BRD Bank
QA Manager
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
, Romania
  • My responsibilities included supervising the QA department and manage all internal QA projects.

  • Improved my Mentoring skills by managing and training a team of 15+ testers in the Agile methodology.

  • Planned resources allocations, hired new team members and performed evaluations.

Vodafone Romania
Vodafone Romania
Data Warehouse Engineer
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
, Romania
  • Created & Maintained ETL flows and verified new ETL workflow releases.

  • Created & Executed database test cases. Implemented data analytics and data collection systems.

  • Worked with: HP ALM, Informatica Power Center, PL/SQL, Unix, Winscp, Putty, Office Suite.

WowApp
WowApp
Product Owner
2014 - 2017 (3 years)
, Romania
  • Created the QA department from scratch, maintained backlog, created requirement documents.

  • Improved the productivity, release frequency and overall quality. Estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating quality testing activities.

  • Implemented the vision of the product, strategy, and product priorities.

Nobel Romania
Nobel Romania
Product Owner/Scrum Master
2013 - 2016 (3 years)
, Romania
  • 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.

IBM Romania
IBM Romania
Senior QA Engineer
2012 - 2013 (1 year)
, Romania
  • 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

Huawei Romania
Huawei Romania
Software Implementation Engineer
2011 - 2012 (1 year)
, Romania
  • 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).

Ubisoft
Ubisoft
Senior Tester
2009 - 2012 (3 years)
, Romania
  • 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.

Showcase

Data Manager/Reach PLC
Data Manager/Reach PLC
  • Managed a year-long project as Data Manager, leading a 10 member team

  • Responsibilities included migration of data from premise to cloud, meeting service level requirements and completing the project under budget

  • Finalized project was successfully used by over 20 million users

Product Owner/WowApp
Product Owner/WowApp
  • 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

Business Intelligence Engineer/Base Telecom
Business Intelligence Engineer/Base Telecom
  • 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

Lead Game Tester/Assassin’s Creed 2
Lead Game Tester/Assassin’s Creed 2
  • Lead Game Tester on Assassin’s Creed 2 submitted over 500 issues and generated various documents including Validation reports and Risk Assessments

  • Improved the game quality through testing for functionality, data content, performance, usability and compatibility

  • Following improvements and testing, the game was successfully released and sold 9 million copies

Education

Education
ISTQB Certified Tester
ISTQB - Foundation
2012 - 2012
Education
International Economic Affairs
Spiru Haret University
2008 - 2011 (3 years)