Nicolae Lupu Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Lead, Senior Quality Assurance Lead

Nicolae Lupu Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Lead

Senior Quality Assurance Lead

Diebold Nixdorf

Lieu
Espagne
Éducation
Diplôme, ISTQB® Certification Expert Level
Expérience
16 years, 2 Mois

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Total des années d'expérience :16 years, 2 Mois

Senior Quality Assurance Lead à Diebold Nixdorf
  • Espagne
  • Je travaille ici depuis décembre 2016

Lead and mentor the Quality Assurance team. Lead cross-team actions by prioritizing needs, working with product development and software development teams to meet product release deadlines
Standardize process and reporting for all testing. Transferring the high level functional requirements of the product manager into a series of user stories with high level requirements that the Software development, UX and design teams can use to deliver the functionality
Design and implement arquitecture layer into a productive environment
Deployment and maintenance of productive environment and core banking
Leverage automated testing to expand QA team abilities and impact
Manage the planning, estimation and execution of application testing efforts, including QA resources to meet product delivery dates
Continuously improve the documentation and development team education of proper and thorough testing techniques and tools
Ensure testing plans cover all aspects of product features and are kept current
Ensure efficient and flexible testing approach to successfully handle a high volume and diversity of product releases presented for testing with a focus on continuously improving outcomes
Track and report team testing activities including test plans, test case coverage/results, defects discovered, and evaluation of the criticality of defects and acceptable workarounds
Anticipate potential release problems and take successful, corrective action
Able to work well in a under pressure in a dynamic and multi cultural environment
Documenting story details based on the epics after reviewing with development
Attending scrum meetings, including standups, retrospectives, and demos
Leading backlog grooming to decompose and estimate stories
Answering questions from developers and clarifies requirements
Documenting the new feature for implementations and release notes
Writing acceptance criteria

Senior Quality Assurance Lead à Diebold Nixdorf
  • Allemagne
  • mars 2016 à décembre 2016

Start-UP project HSBC Mexico ATM CDM solution. Supporting developments of new software and 3rd party integration with backends.
Lead the design effort on a variety of projects in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment. Mi role was to design innovative solutions to real market problems. I worked closely with product and marketing managers, user interaction designers, and other software engineers to develop new product offerings and improve existing ones. This position reports to the PMO.
• Identify the appropriate software architecture based on the requirements and design elements contained in a system specification.
• Maintain and evolve software architecture documents based on evolving system requirements and industry trends and technologies.
• Analyze risk and report problems in meeting system requirements.
• Provide supporting information to the Engineers to aid in the creation of a system specification.
• Assist Software Designer/Implementers with the creation of detailed software design specifications.
• Lead the review process for software architecture documents.
• Participate in the system specification review process to ensure system requirements can be translated into valid software architecture
• Comply with all applicable product development processes. Perform detailed software design as well as implements and/or maintains code according to duties and responsibilities
• Ensure the overall integrity of the software architecture and validates it against the system specification.
• Integrate internal and external product design into a cohesive user experience
• Co-ordinate the QA team +5 persons
• Tracking project progress and maintain the focus to succesfull delivery, avoinding deviation and delays
• Integration and automatization of build processes and distribution services
• Infrastructure design and implementation in a high availability environment, on the bank back ends, serving more than 1 milion transaction daily.

QA Analyst à Citi Bank
  • Espagne
  • octobre 2015 à mars 2016

Details are confidential due to ongoing project.
Card transformation programme. Integration of Popular-e with Citi and creation of new entity, Wizink Bank.

Senior QA Lead à Diebold Nixdorf
  • Espagne
  • septembre 2014 à octobre 2015

Responsible to design and implement testing infrastructure and policies.
- I was in charge to test every new software package and certify that the software meets the requirement standards and quality of the company.
- In charge of maintaining the hardware infrastructure, deploy new application, and design the Continuous integration schema (Jenkins jobs), design the build server, etc.
- Virtualization
- Database tunning Oracle RAC and DB2
- High availability WebSphere and JBOSS clusters installation and configuration
- ATM installation and configuration
- HW testing
- Regular trips at HQ in Germany and several journeys to support clients in site at their offices.
- AGILE and SCRUM methodologies
- Configuration and deploy of PC/E (Pro Classic Enterprise) and PDH (Partenon Device Handler), PC/E Direct Marketing
- Solution arquitect, design and implementation / configuration of high availability productive environment for our clients
- WN most important projects worldwide: JP Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, bank of China, ING, ISBAN-SANTANDER, Alliance & Leichester, Abbey, HSBC, SaoPaolo Bank, BANORTE, Barclays, BBVA, LaCaixa, Bankia, etc.

My strenght are intelligence, creativity, quality, adaptability, technical leadership, and a strong interest to learn.

Tools: Jboss, Websphere, DB2, ORACLE, SQL, RHEL, CentOS, Jenkins, Sonar, vSphere, Unix, Windows Server, SCCM, MKS, GIT, SVN.Ghost, Mcafee enterpise, LDAP jmeter, jprofiler, badBody, Ranorex TIVOLI Performance monitor, etc.

QA Analyst à Banco Popular
  • Espagne
  • août 2014 à octobre 2014

PROJECT Test Suite migration - Banco Popular

- Responsible to update and upgrade the bank test environment
- Update TestLink.
- Upgrade TestLink infrastructure.
- Data migration.
- Customization and personalization of TestLink source code.
- Update SONAR QUBE, Sonar rules, Jenkins CI.
- 3rd party system integration

Tools: TestLink, Sonar, Jira, SVN, SQL.IVI, Apache, Tomcat, ANT, Maven, PHP editor, DB2, Sonar-runner, AD, LDAP, SSO etc

Automation tester/ QA / Compuware Vantage / Selenium à Everis
  • Espagne
  • novembre 2011 à juillet 2014

System Engineer on Everis
PROJECT G.I.A Abelias - Banco Popular
In the position of Systems Engineer I was responsible mainly to create automations that test the entire IT infrastructure of the bank, that identify any possible failure in the service or infrastructure.
-Develop small aplicacciones and windows services in Python, that later it used in the main script in the main test plan.
-Alter Windows OS functions, modifing *dll and services with Python
- create and design of testing scripts in Compuware Vantage
- create, install and configure the environment of Vantage
- Development of Test Partner framework in Visual Basic
- testing and development team leader
-testing web portals, sharepoint, applications installed on the workstation, data bases, documentum, BizTalk services, etc with Selenium and Vantage Compuware, IBM Rational and other bots
- documenting evidence, requirements, methodology and planing work
- inventory of applications, hardware and associated software
Among the tools used are (Compuware Vantage, TestLink, DB2, SQL2005 / 2008, Documentum, host, Editran, Control-M, Visual Basic, Phyton, Intranet, IIS, Sharepoint, Navision, Oracle, Swift, 4B, console monitoring, CRM, Remedy, AD, ODBC's, etc..)

IT Systems engineer à Informatica el Corte Inglés
  • Espagne
  • juin 2011 à novembre 2011

Endesa project
Systems Admin / tester at IECI s, a (Informatica el Corte Inglés) Expert Centre Architecture and Systems Management
In the Systems engineer job I was responsible mainly for analyzing network traffic flow and, for possible service outages.
- I am responsible for creating visual basic scripts, which are capable to reproduce user's FUNCTIONS actions against certain management application.
- Creating navigation Guides
- Analyze network traffic for potential service failures
-created the ODBC drivers for connections to the database
-Preparation of a monthly report to the SLA, according to data recompiled the previous month.
-designing new network infrastructure and services
-monitoring of SLA service levels
Among the applications I use are, Agentless, Vantage View, Vantage Console, OVO console, foglight, SQL, Oracle, Cisco routing, Test partner, etc.

IT Systems engineer à Informatica el Corte Inglés
  • Espagne
  • février 2011 à juin 2011

www.RED.es project (Ministry of Culture and Government websites)
Systems Admin / tester at IECI s, a (Informatica el Corte Inglés) Expert Centre Architecture and Systems Management
In the Systems Engineering job I was responsible mainly for certifying web applications based on Java and PHP. Applications came from major development companies in the country. I was in charge of:
- Install the OS environment and all the server machines
- Mount applications depending on the requirements of the production environment in apache / tomcat and jboss, clustered or not, with login access through Active directory / safety certificate / LDAP or DB (mysql, sql, Oracle, Adabas, etc)
create and configure domains-mail and synchronize with different applications
-create databases, configure, instantiate and manage user groups
-tuning of Linux / Apache / Tomcat / Windows Server / Network / DB / WEB pages
-drawing up guidelines on installation of hardware and software prerequisites, user manuals and design of functional testing, performance, regression and stability.
BUG-sensing ¿s, code errors, dropped links, etc.
- Generation of digital certificates with the keytool of java
-once the applications were properly installed and functional tests were performed, was in charge of testing load, stress and stability with IBM Rational Performance Tester, IBM AppScan, Jmetter
Among the tools used are (Lotus notes, Asur, Jira, MS Office, Toad, putty, notepad + +, UltraEdit, IBM Rational, Jmetter, badboy, TOAD for SQL, MYSQL, ORACLE, Subversion, Tunnelier, OpenSSH, Apache, Apache ant, Tomcat, Jboss, UNIX, LINUX, OPEN SUSE, Solaris, WIN SERVER, team viewer, vnc, etc.).

Systems Administrator (2nd level) - Operations and Data Center à www.entradas.com
  • Espagne
  • septembre 2008 à décembre 2010

Systems Administrator (2nd level support) at www.entradas.com
In the postion of System Administrador it was responsible for monitoring the incidents produced after a system failure, I was doing failure reports for executive committee, resolve the incidents and notify the user. I was in charge of:
- platform servers and pc's under different SO (windows server 2000 and 2003, XP, VISTA, windows 7, etc)
- installations and configurations of different Databases (oracle 8, oracle 9, 9i, SQL express, SQL enterprise )
- migrate the data of DBA, supervise and automate the backup
- I was creating, configurating and monitoring Virtual Private Network trough FORTIGATE
- Configuration of different routers (teldat, irongate, zyXel 3G, cisco, etc)
- virtualized some servers with (Hiper-v, VMware)
- monitoring the WEB servers (Ajax, Nagios ) and the payment gateways 4B, Sermepa, etc
- link different DataBase and some servers with the production page www.entradas.com
- Install and configurate ATM's (machines for ticket vending and pick up)
- Remote support (putty, dame Ware, VNC, etc) to our clients mainly theaters, cinemas, events, concerts etc
- Directly support the development team
- assign tasks to CAU (Customer service center) and supervise the job quality and the SLA (Service Level Agreements).
Also I was the responsible of network’s properly running, the CPD (Data Processing Center), and all PC's and printers, reporting directly to the chief executive.
Sometimes I was travelling throughout Spain to install the Server on-site, the network and the machines that would have the function of a box office and I was teaching courses about the behaviour of different ticketing applications. When everything was prepared to working properly, I was elaborating the quality control report to present them at the chief operations to justify that all the work it was done in good conditions.

Systems Administrator à Optimissa
  • Espagne
  • août 2008 à novembre 2008

Systems Administrator on Optimissa (supplency), from August 2008 to November 2008.
In the company Valorica, that was dealing with investment funds I worked as a system administrator, responsible for all the IT department and technology of communications. Among my daily task are
-Implementation and monitoring of backup on tapes and in SAN servers
-Implementation, automation and monitoring the daily backup of the DataBase
-Creating backups of business data with SYMETRIX TimeFinder/Clone
-Make network maintenance, PC´s(40) and the CPD`s(8)
-give user privilege to access the network share points of important confidentiality, group policy, user’s permission, active directory maintenance
-Modify and update the company’s WEB site (www.valorica.es )
-System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM2007) for server management, featuring OS deployment and a virtual machine manager to ensure that all the server had the same OS version.
-software update
-Make status reports and network performance.

Helpdesk 1st level coordinator à Accenture
  • Espagne
  • juillet 2008 à octobre 2008

Helpdesk 1st level on Accenture, from July 2008 to October 2008.
I was responsible for the helpdesk team, coordinating all the job and SLA's and ANS's reports
I was responsible for supporting business tools like (CRM, CLARIFY, INFOGUIA, SAP, LOTUS NOTES, IRIS, AVAYA, MODICLINES, OPERATING SYSTEMS, MS OFFICE..etc) to VODAFONE employees

Network supervisor à ERICSSON
  • Espagne
  • février 2008 à juin 2008

Network supervisor on ERICSSON at Cecym soluciones, from February 2008 to June 2008.
Supervise technicians and the repair facilities on the national territory.
- Report to area manager.
- Contribute to achieving the objectives assigned.
- Development and monitoring of the implementation of procedures to improve repair operations.
-Provide technical support in mobile services to designed crew in charge, and advice the resolution of incidents.
- Detection techniques and training needs of the crew under my supervision, and ensure the proper functioning of the instrumentation technique for the normal development of the service.
- Monitoring stock levels.

Éducation

Diplôme, ISTQB® Certification Expert Level
  • à Cas Training
  • juin 2016

Dates attended or expected graduation 2015 – 2016 Foundation Level Agile Tester Extension The Advanced Leveli: Test Manager Test Analyst Technical Test Analyst The ISTQB Expert Level currently has four modules, three released and one in development: Improving the Testing Process Test Management Test Automation Engineering Security Testing (in progress)

Diplôme, Python Essentials & Python for Big Data
  • à University of Michigan
  • octobre 2015
Diplôme, Certified Scrum Manager Nivel II - Expert
  • à Open Knowledge
  • juillet 2015

Degree NameLean/ XP/ SAFe/ Kanban/ Test Driven Development (TDD)/ Burndown Charts Dates attended or expected graduation 2015 – 2015 Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM) Certified Scrum Professional® (CSP) Certified Scrum Developer® (CSD) Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO)

Diplôme,
  • à Arenal Informatica - Cisco CCNA / CCNP - network infrastructure designer
  • juin 2011

Curently studying Cisco CCNA, at Arenal Informática Madrid, started on July 2010

Diplôme,
  • à IECI s,a - Jakarta JMetter
  • mai 2011

Jakarta JMetter at IECI s.a

Diplôme,
  • à IECI s,a - IBM Racional Tester
  • mai 2011

IBM Racional Tester at IECI s.a

Diplôme,
  • à IECI s,a - IBM Performance Tester
  • mai 2011

IBM Performance Tester 8.1 at IECI s.a

Diplôme,
  • à Microforum - Linux Apache LPI
  • août 2009

Course of certification Linux Apache LPI (100 h.)

Baccalauréat,
  • à CEIM IBM - SQL 4 ORACLE
  • juillet 2009

Intermediate professional education on SQL and ORACLE, at CEIM IBM from MADRID, July 2009.

Diplôme,
  • à Arenal Informatica - Unix / Linux platforms and networks
  • octobre 2008

Course of Environments Management, Unix / Linux platforms and networks (250 h. )

Diplôme,
  • à Arenal Informatica - Windows Server with Active Directory MCSE / MCTP
  • février 2008

Course of Windows Server with Active Directory (270 h.)

Diplôme,
  • à IES Pedro de Tolosa - Windows Server MCSE
  • août 2007

Course of Informatics Systems and Windows Server MCSE (500 h.) IES Pedro de Tolosa en San Martin de Valdeiglesias

Baccalauréat,
  • à IES Pedro de Tolosa
  • juin 2007

Bachelor’s degree at IES Pedro de Tolosa, from February 2006 to June of 2007.

Specialties & Skills

Web Testing
QA Automation
Microsoft Technologies
Ticketing programs Crystal Reports Oracle 8/8i / Oracle 9.x SQL Server
SQL / Oracle SQL*Plus DCOM (Microsoft) / Active X Microsoft .NET Framework
User management, group policy, user privacy and data security
Windows 98 / Windows NT 4 / Windows XP
CALL CENTER support Coordination of helpdesk teams
Supervising Mainframe environments / Supervising WEB performance
Monitoring incidents / Customer support
DSL (and xDSL variations) / Wireless
Network management and performance Network wiring and configurations
Oracle Application Server SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
Software patched and update / System configuration
System performance / Software installation
Linux / Unix Windows 2000 Professional / Windows 2000 Server Unix (HP-UX)
Aftermarket attention Oracle SQL*Forms
Windows server 2003 / 2008
Ajax, Nagios, Apache server, Tomcat, Jboss
Management of system storage / Management of helpdesk systems and team
BMC utilities Backup and restore operations
Systems Integration with IIS (Internet Information Server)
payment gateways 4B/SERMEPA/Caja Madrid
User’s administration / Configuration of hardware systems
Providing support at telecommunicating user and telephony customers
IP (Internet Protocol) / NetBIOS / PPP / SSH Secure Shell / RDSI
Voice over IP (VOIP) / WAP (Wireless Application Protocol)
Management of Internet access / Management of Intranet and Sharepoint
Management of Internet access / Management of Intranet and Sharepoint
Network monitoring / Procedures and network standards Network protocols / Remote acces protocol
Phone and TV wiring Instalation of LAN networks and WIRELESS networks / Servers installation
Windows / Mac OS
Cisco Routers Hubs/Routers Microsoft Active Directory WAN (Wide Area Network)
Hardware and Software documentation and Inventory
DHCP / DNS / TCP/IP / Ethernet / FastEthernet HTTP
Informatica on e-commerce, financial sector, telecommunications and leisure time sector
firewall Instalation and configuration Networks security management
Administration of desktop environment/ Administration of devices
MS Office support / Peripheals support
CRM (Customer Relationship Management) Hardware shopping
Backup of DBA / DBA Migrations
Microsoft Office Suite Text processors / Spreadsheets Database use / E-mail

Langues

Anglais
Moyen
Espagnol
Expert
Roumain
Expert

Adhésions

Apple
  • iOS Development Team
  • September 2010
HI5
  • market development strategy in Spain
  • May 2008