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Victor Cernei

Victor Cernei

Chisinau,Moldova

Summary

Passionate about quality QA Automation engineer with 6+ years of experience managing software testing and automation projects throughout the testing phase. Result-oriented QA engineer who thinks about how the quality of the projects can be improved and tries to spot the weak places in the process and help to improve them. The proudest achievement - was participation in the UI automation of the entire suite of test cases, which took over 20 hours to manually perform after each new release, which afterward did the same job automatically in 1 hour.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work history

Senior Software Quality Engineer Consultant

Intetics
Chisinau, Moldova
10.2022 - Current
  • For 3 years of work:

1. Designed and implemented an automation framework with 100+ test cases covering 90% of the regression scope, reducing execution time from 2 weeks to 2 hours.
2. Identified and logged 1000+ critical defects, improving the product quality.
3. Reduced the manual regression suite from 350 to 180 test cases, optimizing testing efforts.
4. Dockerized the entire automation project, enabling seamless execution in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Kubernetes.
5. Collaborated closely with developers and the QA engineers to improve test coverage and maintainability.

Senior QA automation engineer

Intelligent Contacts
Chisinau, Moldova
08.2018 - Current
  • For 7+ years of work:

1. Created and maintained over 600 automated tests (UI and API) for two large-scale web projects, significantly improving regression reliability.
2. Developed and maintained 500+ API automation tests using Rest Assured and Postman.
3. Detected and reported 1000+ defects, ensuring timely resolution and higher-quality releases.
4. Participated in 100+ successful releases and hot fixes, improving deployment stability.
5. Worked extensively with Docker, Linux, and AWS SDKs for environment setup and cloud testing.
6. Authored detailed test documentation, onboarding guides, and setup instructions for the QA team.

Senior Automation Software QA Consultant

Business Class
Chisinau, Moldova
08.2024 - Current
  • Designed and implemented the automation framework with 100 UI test cases covering 95% of the regression scope, reducing execution time to 1 hour.
  • Implemented dockerization of the entire automation project, enabling seamless execution in CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Allure for reporting.
  • Developed and implemented self-healing locators with AI for the Playwright framework.
  • Mentored junior QA engineers, conducted code reviews, and drove adoption of automation best practices.

Education

Certification - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS
Chisinau, Moldova
09.2024

Certification - Python

OpenEDG Python Institute
Chisinau, Moldova
04.2001 -

Certification - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS
08.2022

Certification - Oracle Database SQL Certified Associate

Oracle
07.2021

Certification - Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8

Oracle
12.2020

Certification - Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8

Oracle
08.2020

Graduate of QA Specialized Testing Courses - Quality assurance

Special4IT
07.2018

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications

Technical University of Moldova
Chisinau
04.2001 -

Skills

Soft skills:

  • Eagerness to learn
  • Attention to details
  • Critical and out-of-the-box thinking
  • Empathy
  • Result oriented
  • Team player
  • Perseverance
  • Proactivity

Hard skills:

  • Java SE 21 - Expert
  • Python - Advanced
  • JavaScript - Intermediate
  • Playwright, Selenium Webdriver/Grid - Expert
  • BDD (Cucumber, Gherkin) - Expert
  • Solid, Design Patterns, Clean Code Principles - Advanced
  • Oracle SQL/MySQL - Intermediate
  • Amazon Web Services - Intermediate
  • Git - Intermediate
  • TestNG, Junit5 - Advanced
  • Spring, Spring Boot - Pre-advanced
  • Maven, Gradle - Advanced
  • Kubernetes/Docker, Linux - Intermediate
  • Rest Assured - Advanced
  • Postman, Insomnia - Advanced
  • Jira, Testmo, Zephyr - Advanced
  • JMeter, Apache Kafka - Intermediate
  • Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines with Jenkins
  • Agile scrum/SDLC

Language skills:

  • Russian - native
  • Romanian - B2
  • English - C1
  • Spanish - A1

Timeline

Senior Automation Software QA Consultant

Business Class
08.2024 - Current

Senior Software Quality Engineer Consultant

Intetics
10.2022 - Current

Senior QA automation engineer

Intelligent Contacts
08.2018 - Current

Certification - Python

OpenEDG Python Institute
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications

Technical University of Moldova
04.2001 -

Certification - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS

Certification - AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS

Certification - Oracle Database SQL Certified Associate

Oracle

Certification - Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 8

Oracle

Certification - Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8

Oracle

Graduate of QA Specialized Testing Courses - Quality assurance

Special4IT
Victor Cernei