Alexandr Caldare
Chisinau,Moldova
Summary
Enthusiastic and easy-adaptable specialist contributing to team success through hard work and dedication. Successful at utilizing effectively interpersonal skills at managing challenges and enhancing team goals. Methodical Quality Assurance Engineer known for high productivity and efficient task completion. Possess specialized skills in automated testing, software debugging, and risk management. Excel in critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication, ensuring thorough analysis and improvement of product quality standards.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Quality Assurance Engineer (SE)
Endava
Chisinau, Moldova
01.2022 - Current
- I have experience working in a complex, large, multiservice application in FinTech.
- Analyzed customer feedback to identify areas of improvement in product quality.
- Performed manual and automated testing on software applications to ensure functionality and reliability.
- Provided technical guidance to junior quality assurance engineers.
- Collaborated with developers and other stakeholders to resolve complex technical issues related to software products.
- Reviewed test cases created by other members of the team before execution.
- Identified, documented, and tracked bugs throughout the development process using bug-tracking systems, such as JIRA.
- Participated in code reviews with developers to identify potential bugs early in the development cycle.
- Evaluated existing processes within the Quality Assurance department and recommended improvements where necessary.
- Documented, triaged, and managed defects in software and worked with developers to facilitate timely resolutions.
- Participated in a full cycle of deployment and monitoring of the product delivery from the lower environment to production.
- Maintained and troubleshot the lower environments.
- Performed basic performance testing using the JMeter tool.
- Worked with CI/CD standards, which accelerates the software development lifecycle.
Quality Assurance Engineer (EN)
Endava
04.2020 - 04.2022
- Work within an agile setup, within the End-to-End team, interacting with scrum teams of Product Owners and Software Developers;
- Working on a large-scale, service-oriented environment consistent of multiple services and applications;
- Translate user stories, acceptance criteria into detailed, comprehensive test scenarios/test cases;
- Build, execute and maintain accurate automation scripts;
- Troubleshoot test automation failures;
- Raise clear and accurate defects, follow up on resolutions and retest fixes.
- Define and execute smoke, regression tests;
- Report test results to Test Lead and/or other colleagues efficiently.
Quality Assurance Engineer
OOK Group
03.2018 - 04.2020
- Manual testing (Ensure application quality performing different types of black box testing like: Integration Testing, System Testing, Smoke Testing, Exploratory Testing, Regression Testing, Performance Testing, Alpha Testing);
- Working in Agile approach (Stand up, Retrospective, Planning);
- Developing ATF projects in Java language for web and android application using Selenium, JUnit, Cucumber, Maven, Appium;
- Performing Automation API testing using Rest Assured library;
- Performing DB testing using JPA, JPQL, DAO.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Applied Informatics
ULIM
06.2023
Quality Assurance Tester -
IT STEP Academy
02.2019
High School Diploma (Baccalaureate) -
Lyceum Vasile Vasilache
Moldova2012
Skills
- Product requirements analysis, manual and automated testing, test case creation, cross-functional team collaboration, agile methodology, QA reporting, and testing efficiency
Tools
- Jira, Confluence, Xray, TestRail, Zephyr
- Java, Git, Postman, JMeter, MySQL, Selenium, Appium, Cucumber, BDD, Spring, CI/CD
- Kibana
- BrowserStack
Languages
Romanian
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Russian
Advanced (C1)
C1
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Quality Assurance Engineer (SE)
Endava
01.2022 - Current
Quality Assurance Engineer (EN)
Endava
04.2020 - 04.2022
Quality Assurance Engineer
OOK Group
03.2018 - 04.2020
Bachelor of Science - Applied Informatics
ULIM
Quality Assurance Tester -
IT STEP Academy
High School Diploma (Baccalaureate) -
Lyceum Vasile Vasilache
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