Curriculum vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION Mariela Paunescu

Riului nr 188, Craiova (Romania)
+40766460917
paunescu.mariela111@gmail.com
Skype paunescu.mariela

JOB APPLIED FOR Test Manager

WORK
EXPERIENCE
14/06/2014–
15/01/2015 QA Manual Tester
Sintec Media, Craiova (Romania)
Analyzing the Requirements from the client
Participating in preparing Test Plans
Preparing Test Scenarios,Test Cases
Defect Tracking
Preparing Suggestion Documents to improve the quality of the application
Communication with the Test Lead / Test Manager
Review Meetings within the Team
16/01/2015– QA Release Manager
15/01/2016 Sintec Media, Craiova (Romania)
• Reviewing spec, technical designs for accuracy
• Create client specific test plans based on the technical specs
• Create and manage QA work plans in coordination with the project plans
• Create detailed dashboards and reports to reflect the QA status
• Setup and manage client specific test environments and test data
• Balancing between QA members work in dev units and on general
QA/testing tasks when conflicts occur
• Keeping management level informed of testing progress and problems
• Release management from the QA perspective
• Prioritization tests based on risks assessment. Creating, monitoring, and
verifying defect reports
16/01/2016–
01/09/2017 QA Project Leader
Sintec Media, Craiova (Romania)
• Planning the QA efforts of projects / solutions from design phase through go live
• Reviewing spec, technical designs for accuracy
• Create client specific test plans based on the technical specs
• Create and manage QA work plans in coordination with the project plans
• Create detailed dashboards and reports to reflect the QA status
• Setup and manage client specific test environments and test data
• Balancing between QA members work in dev units and on general QA/testing tasks when
conflicts occur
• Implementing and coordinating the appropriate test procedures and models inc. timely team
meetings and status reporting
• Contribution to the everlasting improvement process by investigating new technologies, tools,
etc
• Keeping management level informed of testing progress and problems
• Release management from the QA perspective
• Prioritization tests based on risks assessment
• The overall quality of the project / solution deliverables (including but not limited to test
scripts, bug reports, execution reports) and the team’s performance. Creating, monitoring,
and verifying defect reports

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01/09/2017– QA Technical Lead

28/04/2021 Operative
Managing a team of 5 members.
The Team is divided on 2 Products for 4 Different Customers.
The 5 members are divided in Scrum Teams.
Define / review test plans, test strategies for sprints and releases, including the functional
and regression test scope
Review and validate quality of the outputs of QA members within the Scrum teams,
diagnose, debug and perform root-cause analysis of issues and defects
Release management for the product releases
Hands-On participation in the functional and regression testing of at least 50%
Identify the need for Automation in the team and synchronize with the Automation Tech
leader
Facilitation of inter-team communication across many agile projects within an organization
Creating the release notes and other documents
Train and develop the team members
Implement and monitor QA & Delivery procedures and methodologies
Contributing to the everlasting improvement process by investigating new technologies,
tools, etc.
Training on methodological and product modules and other required areas
Performance appraisals for team members
Administrative management over the team
29/04/2021–Present Test Manager/Project Leader/Scrum master
Quest Global Services, Craiova (Romania)
Understand the testing effort by analyzing the requirements of project.
Estimate and obtain management support for the time, resources and budget
required to perform the testing.
Monthly billing to client
Organize the testing kick-off meeting
Define the Strategy
Leading daily scrum meetings and implement/ monitor the Agile process inside
the team. Planning development new requirements and tests per sprint
Build a testing team of professionals with appropriate skills, attitudes and
motivation.
Identify Training requirements
Develop the test plan for the tasks, dependencies and participants required to
mitigate the risks to system quality and obtain stakeholder support for this plan.
Arrange the Hardware and software requirement for the Test Setup.
Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have
sufficient work in the project.
Ensure content and structure of all Testing documents / artifacts is documented
and maintained.
Document, implement, monitor, and enforce all processes for testing as per
standards defined by the organization.
Check / Review the Test Cases documents.
Keep track of the new requirements / change in requirements of the Project.
Organize the status meetings and send the Status Report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to
the Client
Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status with the client.
Communication with the Client
Act as the single point of contact between Development and Testers.
Track and prepare the report of testing activities like test testing results, test case
coverage, required resources, defects discovered and their status, performance
baselines etc.
Review various reports prepared by Test engineers.
Ensure the timely delivery of different testing milestones.
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Prepares / updates the metrics dashboard at the end of a phase or at the
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completion of project.
Developed complex reports using multiple data providers, user defined objects,
aggregate aware objects, charts, and synchronized queries.
Trained end users in using full client BO for analysis and reporting.
Created classes and dimension and measure objects according to business
requirements.
Generated effective reports using formulae, sections, breaks, alerters, and filters.
Conducted cost benefit analysis of various ETL tools and technologies.
Oversaw unit and system tests and assisted users with acceptance testing

EDUCATION AND
TRAINING
15/09/2007– High School Graduation
15/06/2011 C.N Elena Cuza, Craiova (Romania)
Filiera teoretica – Profil Real – Specializarea Matematică- Informatică intensiv informatica

01/10/2011– University of Craiova, Faculty of Mathematics - Informatics, Department of

15/06/2012 Computer Science, Craiova (Romania)
Scientific Calculation
Algebraic Foundations of Computer Science
Computational Logic
Algorithms and programming
Mathematical Analysis I
Computer architecture
Databases I
Data Structures
Electronic and Techniques for Algorithm Design
calculators
Fundamental Algorithms
Foundations in Artificial Intelligence
of Informatics
ObjectGeometry
Oriented Programming
and Combinatory
Operating
Functional systems
programming
Geometric algorithms programming
Object-oriented
Computer networks
Operative research
Web Systems Information
01/10/2012–
15/06/2013
Roma Tre University, Department of Engineering, Roma (Italy)

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01/10/2013– University Degree

15/06/2014 University of Craiova, Faculty of Mathematics - Informatics, Department of
PERSONAL
Computer Science, Craiova (Romania)
SKILLS
Data security and protection
Database Advanced Technologies
Testing and Quality Assurance
Web Services Technologies
Wireless Technologies and Mobile Networks

Mother
tongue(s) Romanian
Operating systems

UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING

Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production

Foreign language(s)
English C2 C2 C2 C2 C2
C2 C2 C2 C2 C2
C2 C2 C2 C2 B2
B2 B2 B1 B1 B2
Italian
Spanish Portuguese

Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user - B1 and B2: Independent user - C1 and C2: Proficient
user Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Communication
skills Good communication skills gained through my experience as:
- Charity Officer during high school
- 1 year of study abroad
- Experience as Project Quality Leader and having direct contact with broadcasting
clients from different parts of the world
- Leading a team and being a scrum master

Organizational / managerial Good organizational skills gained during my experience as Project Quality Leader and QA
skills Technical
Leader
Job-related QA Web testing techniques and procedures acquired during the IT Six QA Academy in
skills 2014 QA Testing techniques and procedures, development life cycles, Agile
Methodologies.
QA software testing techniques and procedures acquired during 5 years of
experiences in Sintec Media/Operative
Training skills (as a Project Quality Leader and QA Technical Leader one of the
responsibilities is to train the new joiners and to improve the knowledge of the existing teams)
C++ and C# improved knowledge (for the Project Quality Leaders one of the
responsibility is to be involved in all the process: development including development, so basic
programming knowledge is required)
Management skills acquired As Project Quality Leader, Infrastructure QA manager
and QA Technical Leader

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Digital skills SELF-ASSESSMENT

Information Content Problem

Communication Safety
processing creation solving

Proficient user Proficient user Proficient user Proficient user

Attestation of professional competence

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