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my name is

MARCEL OLARU

Automation
Engineer

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Test Automation Engineer
passionate about
software quality, virtualization, systems monitoring and application health.
A Test Automation & DevOps enthusiast with background experience as a Consultant.

I enjoy understanding how complex system work together and finding ways to optimize and monitor.

In my spare time I like video games, 3D printing, reading, building PC's and tinkering with RaspberryPi's and other gadgets.

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Marcel Olaru

Software Automation Engineer


Hours spent actively developing

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Test design & test procedure development

90%

Software development using Python, Java, C# & PHP

80%

DevOps automation practices

60%

Monitoring systems and application health

50%

Agile Methodologies / Agile Testing

90%

Selenium, Appium, SoapUI, Postman

70%

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More about my past

A lifelong learner and technology aficionado with 7+ years of QA & Test Automation experience who is always looking to work on exciting projects with exciting clients.
Full of energy, hard work and enthusiasm.
Currently learning more about DevOps practices and philosophy

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  • Shift Left/ Right Testing & Automation
  • Test design & test procedure development
  • Tools: Selenium, Appium, Jenkins, AWS, Docker, ELK Stack, DataDog, SoapUI, Postman
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    • Employment
    • QA Automation Engineer

      Jul 2021 - current Back Market

      - Working closely with the product owner and the backend teams, I own the environments and lead the QA efforts to improve the automated testing strategy.
      - Work with all of the BoT (Bureau of Technology) departments on identifying and fixing testing pain points of the roadmap and architecture.
      - Manage and Improve the automated test strategy (Selenium / Postman), and deliver top-notch tooling and testing environments.
      - Work in an agile "build it and run it" environment where engineering teams build, launch, monitor, and support the sections that they own.
      - Evangelize automated testing to stakeholders and help them construct an ambitious testing roadmap (functional, integration, non-regression, performance, load, security).
      - Integrate into the deployment cycle and facilitate collaboration to solve interesting and exciting problems related to the international scaling (Europe, USA, and Japan).
      - Cultivate an open communication culture with constant feedback between team members.
      - Identify team pain points and drive improvements in processes while leading the adoption of best practices.
      - Support teams in increasing delivery proficiency by creating a lean learning environment.


    • Software Test Engineer

      Sep 2018 - Jul 2021 TheFork, a TripAdvisor company

      Work with development teams in order to :
      - Participate in the implementation of monitoring tools and pre / post release alert (prometheus/ELK Stack)
      - Fluidify the deployment process (continuous deployment/ Jenkins)
      - Maintain and improve tests tools and ensure their suitability through the addition of new tests
      - Support development teams and managers in the implementation of their quality approach
      - Help them to go forward with automatic functional test framework (Behat, Selenium, Appium)
      - List any missing or unsuitable tools with their test needs
      - Track possible regressions and set up mitigation solutions with the teams involved
      - Evangelize dev teams to best practices defined by the QA in an international context (150 developers/ 22 countries)
      - Manage deployment and support software quality tools with development teams
      - Follow up automation of functional and/or integration tests
      - Promote the improvement of functional test coverage


    • Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

      Jun 2017 - Sep 2018 StarDust Testing

      Consultant on multiple projects with different technical challenges in the French industry sector.
      (AXA Insurances, HAGER, VINCI, INDIGO etc.)
      Responsibilities :
      - Advise, manage and technically support the collaborators and customer stakeholders in the implementation of the test strategy
      - Deploy automated tests by integrating them into the overall test strategy
      - Develop and integrate automated tests in the development process taking into account technical and business constraints
      - Ensure the curative or preventive maintenance of the implemented automated tests
      - Validate the conformity of services and present KPI reports


    • Software Quality Assurance Engineer

      Sep 2014 - Jul 2017 TTC - Testing Training and Consulting Ltd

      - Object Oriented Programming and application development using C# and .NET
      - SQL Server Database Administration
      - Planning and development of different information systems and web portals in different projects as contractor
      - Test design, test procedure development
      - Coordination and test campaign follow-up: regression tests, end to end tests and connectivity tests


    • Project Manager (Scrum Product Owner)

      Mar 2014 - Sep 2014 Hesus

      -Responsible for the design and development of a web-platform facilitating the exchange of inert soil between construction sites (www.soldating.fr)
      - QA / HMI (Human Machine Interface) test protocols (SELENIUM)
      - FSD (Functional specification document), TSD(Technical specification document)
      - In charge of coordination and test campaign follow-up: regression tests, end to end tests and connectivity tests
      - Tracking and management of bugs in Acceptance and Production environments (JIRA)
      - Project manager on Continuous Delivery (Agile method): work optimization, daily test in developers software factory
      - Work in collaboration with development team and business to test continuously


    • R&D Engineer / Consultant

      2008 - 2012 ANIF

      - In charge of a team of 10 people responsible with data collection, analysis and interpretation, using Python, GIS and AutoCAD
      - Environmental studies (soil and water tests) for the installation of agricultural subsurface and surface drainage systems, flood protection, anti-erosion and river training works
      - Main contact with the administrative services and the customers


    • Environmental Engineer

      2007 - 2008 Castrum Group CORP

      - Consultant on implementing the environmental monitoring system for "Mine Closure and Social Mitigation Project " / Racos mine (Baraolt, Romania), funded in partnership with the World Bank
      - Quality management system ISO 9001, ISO 14001) implementation
      - Environmental impact and health assessment for the activity areas

    • Education
    • SQA Automation Expert Training

      2014 Certificate: QA Automation Expert Certification

      - Software Testing Methodology
      - Test Automation Project management (indicators, piloting and reporting)
      - Automated Testing & Debugging
      - Tools: Selenium, Appium, HP ALM Quality Center,SoapUI, UFT, Ranorex

    • Nextformation

      2013 Certificate: Programming using C# and .net framework

      - Agile Project Management
      - Data modeling using Merise methodology
      - Formalization and data modeling using the Rational Unify Process (RUP ) and UML methodologies
      - Programming in C# and .net framework (Course 20483B)
      - Object Oriented Programming and application development using C# and .net (Winforms)
      - Database Driven Windows Application Development With C#.NET(Winforms and WPF)
      - ASP.NET - Web Services
      - SQL Server 2012 Database Administration (Course 70-462 MCDBA)
      - Microsoft SQL Server 2012
      - Oracle Database: SQL and PL/SQL Fundamentals training

    • Université de Marne-la-Vallée

      2012 - 2013 Master's Degree: Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering


    • North University School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

      2002 - 2007 Bachelor of Science: Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering

    • Ion Luca High school

      2002 High school diploma : Major in Science, (Baccalauréat scientifique)


    Services

    Things that I can do


    Skills


    Software
    Testing


    Experienced in creating front, API and back end test cases from functional and technical specifications.
    Hands on experience with Manual Testing, Test Automation and TDD .

    Software
    Engineering


    Proficient in functional programming, software design, cloud and distributed computing concepts.

    Automation Testing


    Adept at testing the unified experience across devices, by developing front/back or API automated test cases, consistently focusing on crucial business feature cases.

    Database
    Modeling


    Skillful in creating conceptual models, with experience with Databases technologies including SQL, MySQL, Firebase and Solr .


    Tools


    An overview of the Tools and Frameworks that I use today.

    Testing

    • Selenium
    • Appium
    • Jenkins
    • Docker
    • Behat
    • Jira

    Back-End

    • React
    • GraphQL
    • Django
    • Entity Framework
    • Amazon / Azure Web Services

    Front-End

    • React
    • Angular
    • Vue.js

    Programming Languages

    • Java
    • Python
    • PHP
    • Javascript/TypeScript
    • Ruby

    Contact

    Hello again 👋!

    I'm constantly looking for new and exciting projects to work on

    If you have something in mind and need a Automation Engineer / QA tester
    I'm available for remote work or around the Paris region
    (région Île-de-France) 🇫🇷 .
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