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Cristina Tescaru

Senior QA Engineer

€200/day
Bucharest, RO
8-15 years
API REST
Functional testing
Agile method
automation
Scrum

Average response time: 1 hour

About Cristina

With 12+ years in software QA across SaaS, pharma, and fintech, I help teams ship reliable software faster.

I enjoy working across the full testing spectrum — from functional and E2E testing with a strong focus on user-driven scenarios, to API automation and integration testing.

I specialize in API test automation using Java and RestAssured, and have hands-on experience with CI/CD integration and end-to-end testing strategies.

I've led QA processes, mentored teams, and worked in high-compliance environments where quality is non-negotiable.
Banking and Financial Services
Pharmaceuticals
Digital and IT Services

  • Romanian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Conversational

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • GlobalLogic — Bottomline
    Software Engineer in Test
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    June 2025 - December 2025 (6 months)
    Bucharest, Romania
    Delivering high-quality automation coverage for new and existing features of a payment network, collaborating closely with development and product teams to ensure feature testability and CI pipeline quality.

    • Analyze functional business requirements for completeness and participate in application design discussions with developers.
    • Define thorough testing strategies aligned with feature scope.
    • Develop and maintain the automation testing framework.
    • Train and lead team members in automation testing for new and existing features. Execute automated test scripts and identify deviations from expected results.
    • Create, track, and retest software defects using designated defect tracking tools.
    • Work closely with development, manual QA, and product management teams to improve automated test coverage.
    • Participate in QA process improvement initiatives.

    Technologies: IntelliJ, Java, Selenium, Maven, JUnit, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Jira, Postman, SQL, Zephyr, GitLab
    Java Functional testing Gitlab PL/SQL JUnit
  • Nexthink
    Software Engineer in Test
    DIGITAL AND IT
    June 2021 - November 2024 (3 years and 5 months)
    Lausanne, Switzerland
    Building and maintaining a cloud-based SaaS platform (digital employee experience management), providing real-time analytics, automation and remediation for IT teams. Distributed Agile team, contributing to test automation across backend and frontend layers.

    • Give guidance in terms of QA to the software development teams and participate actively in the implementation of automation framework and increasing automation test coverage.
    • Actively discuss with the Product Manager to design the acceptance criteria and to prepare, ahead of test execution, test plan, and automation scripts.
    • Select and assess proper testing tools and utilities.
    • Write code to automate the testing of new and existing features.
    • Run manual and automated regression tests.
    • Analyze performance bottlenecks and stability issues.
    • Participate in the product release delivery process.
    • Work with the agile iterative/incremental mindset and best practices and participate actively in the different agile ceremonials.

    Technologies: IntelliJ, REST Assured, Java, Cucumber, Playwright, Selenium, Kafka, Gradle, JUnit, Postman, SQL
    API REST Selenium Java Playwright Cucumber
  • ENDAVA
    Automation Test Engineer
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    January 2019 - May 2021 (2 years and 4 months)
    Bucharest, Romania
    Backend payment application development for a major financial services client, following Agile/Scrum methodology. Close coordination between two backend testing teams to ensure reliable integration and end-to-end test coverage across payment processing workflows.

    • Write/review automated tests for a backend application using REST API testing with Java.
    • Attend the SCRUM meetings with the team in order to understand and clarify the business requirements used to implement and deliver the features correctly.
    • Execute the integration tests locally and by using the testing pipelines. Investigate the encountered issues and create defects/provide reproduction steps to the development team.
    • Maintain the automated tests.
    • Develop and update functionalities in the testing library.
    • Hold demonstrations for the client at the end of each sprint.
    • Offer support for 2 backend testing teams.

    Technologies: Microsoft Azure DevOps, IntelliJ, REST Assured, Java, Maven, TestNG, Postman, Robo 3T, Kafka, MongoDB
    Microsoft Azure Maven MongoDB Apache Kafka TestNG
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Education

  • Bachelor of Mathematics and Informatics
    University of Transylvania
    2018
    Bachelor of Mathematics and Informatics
  • Bachelor of Food Products Engineering
    University of Transylvania
    2012
    Bachelor of Food Products Engineering
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