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Matei Laurentiu Lordos

Quality Assurance Engineer
Timișoara

Summary

Proven Senior Manual Quality Assurance Engineer with a track record of optimizing testing efforts at Idemia through continuous improvement of QA methodologies. Excelled in cross-functional team collaboration and effective communication, significantly enhancing project efficiency. Expert in functional testing and adept at fostering teamwork, consistently meeting tight deadlines to exceed client expectations.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
3
3
Languages

Work History

Senior Manual Quality Assurance Engineer

Idemia
Bucharest, Bucuresti
08.2023 - Current

As a Senior QA Engineer my main focus is to optimize testing efforts with continuous improvement of QA methodologies, tools, and processes. Some of my day to day activities are following:

  • Create Test Strategy and Test Plans.
  • Improving overall project efficiency by developing comprehensive test cases based on business requirements and specifications.
  • Creating and maintaining test documentation.
  • Documenting testing procedures for developers and other Test Engineers for future testing use.
  • Review test cases created by other team members.
  • Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes, and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
  • Improving testing process by implementing new work process.
  • Estimation on new features.
  • Training team members on various QA topics.
  • Met tight deadlines to satisfy client demands and project timelines.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of QA processes throughout the lifecycle.
  • Cultivating strong relationships with developers through effective communication and collaboration during defect triage sessions.

Test Lead

Superna
Ottawa
01.2015 - 07.2023

As a Test Lead I would mention some of my responsibilities:

  • Streamlined testing processes for increased efficiency and reduced overall test cycle time.
  • Conducted regression, performance, scalability, smoke testing, API testing of existing products.
  • Enhanced product performance with thorough troubleshooting and identification of critical defects.
  • Reduced defect leakage rate by conducting thorough root cause analyses and proactively addressing areas of concern in future release cycles.
  • Keeping track of the test effort / estimation of test effort.
  • Close communication with Development team.
  • Build test environments and write technical documentations related to it.
  • Writing technical documentations for client and internal use and maintain them.
  • Hosting training sessions with colleagues from various teams.
  • Hosting meetings with end clients for POC or initial install and System configuration.
  • Hosting meetings with end clients to troubleshoot and solve various problems.

Quality Assurance Engineer

DMC
01.2014 - 12.2014

As a Quality Assurance Engineer at DMC I performed testing on Fujitsu servers. Job responsabilities:

  • Creating hardware configurations.
  • Installing operating systems: Windows, RedHat, Suse, VMWare - configuration network setting various operating systems: Suse, RedHat, Windows.
  • Quality assurance on non-released servers: Cloud servers, Blade servers.
  • Installing and maintaining Fujitsu software on various operating systems: Windows, RedHat, Suse.
  • Creating test case and test plans.
  • Integration, unit, system testing.
  • Maintenance testing.

Software Engineer

Survey Sampling International
Timișoara, Timis
10.2012 - 12.2013

As software developer at Survey Sampling International I developed online surveys, also I had to do project managing and quality assurance for different projects. My day to day tasks were:

  • Programming online surveys with ConfirmIT.
  • Testing online surveys.
  • Scripting with C.
  • Data analysis.
  • Project Management.

Education

Master of Science - Automated System Engineering

Polytechnics University Timisoara
Timisoara
10.2011 - 06.2013

Bachelor of Science - System Engineering

Polytechnics University Timisoara
Timisoara
10.2007 - 06.2011

High School Diploma -

National College Traian Doda
Caransebes, Romania
09.2003 - 06.2007

Skills

Functional testing

Regression testing

Mobile app testing

User acceptance testing

Test plan development

Defect tracking

Cross-browser testing

Linux command line

Scrum framework

Confluence

Bug reporting

JIRA expertise

Teamwork

Manual testing

Manual test case preparation

Teamwork and collaboration

Customer service

Problem-solving

Time management

Defect tracking and reporting

Problem-solving abilities

Test plans and test methodologies

Test planning

Multitasking

Bug tracking and resolution

Multitasking Abilities

Excellent communication

Decision-making

Self motivation

Teamwork and positive attitude

Time management abilities

Adaptability and flexibility

Verbal and written communication

Effective communication

Team collaboration

Active listening

Organizational skills

Agile best practices

Defect monitoring

Attention to detail

Agile methodologies

Technical support

Scrum methodology

Cross-functional team collaboration

Software defect documentation

Requirements analysis

Client requirements

Certification

Katalon Practitioner Level

Software

Quality Center HP, QA Complete, Test Quality, Zephyr, Xray

EMC OneFS

Jira

Confluence

Swagger

Zendesk

MS Office

Jenkins

SQL

Katalon

SoapUI

Postman

Hobbies

I really enjoy playing chess and long walks into unknown places.

Timeline

Senior Manual Quality Assurance Engineer

Idemia
08.2023 - Current

Test Lead

Superna
01.2015 - 07.2023

Quality Assurance Engineer

DMC
01.2014 - 12.2014

Software Engineer

Survey Sampling International
10.2012 - 12.2013

Master of Science - Automated System Engineering

Polytechnics University Timisoara
10.2011 - 06.2013

Bachelor of Science - System Engineering

Polytechnics University Timisoara
10.2007 - 06.2011

High School Diploma -

National College Traian Doda
09.2003 - 06.2007

Katalon Practitioner Level

Matei Laurentiu LordosQuality Assurance Engineer