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- EndavaCUSTOMER DELIVERYJuly 2024 - Today (1 year and 11 months)Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaWorldline Payments Solutions | Ikea program | EuropeDomain: Payments Integration | Retail Point-of-Sale (POS) Payment Systems | FinTechResponsibilities:• Provide hands-on support to Delivery teams during Pre-Prod and Pilot/Prod phases, and to clients duringUAT and Production Pilot phases.• Manage incidents, emergencies, and crises by prioritizing effectively and escalating when necessary toensure timely arbitration and resolution.• Establish, communicate, and commit to delivery schedules with clients, factoring in risks, dependencies,and appropriate contingency buffers.• Produce clear, concise, and actionable weekly and monthly reports for management, supported byshared tracking spaces and review meetings.• Define, own, and maintain a realistic end-to-end implementation roadmap, from discovery todeployment, covering new features, bug fixes, and internal maintenance.• Track and control binary releases, ensuring the correct versions (features and fixes) are deployed to theappropriate environments at the right time.• Coordinate and monitor multiple development squads to keep delivery on schedule and manageproduction issues identified across all testing phases.• Oversee and monitor checkout and integration workflows to ensure stability and performance.• Proactively identify and anticipate risks related to scope, clients, technical constraints, resources,dependencies, and prerequisites.• Plan and ensure knowledge transfer, support rollout activities, and enforce adherence to team andcompany processes (IAM, CAB, Integration team processes).• Organize and actively participate in internal (Agile) and external (client) governance and follow-upmeetings. Use and maintain delivery and tracking tools such as JIRA, Confluence, with daily updates as needed.• Demonstrate a professional, ethical, and solution-oriented mindset, with honest, respectful, and effectivecommunication, setting an example for the team.
- EndavaTECHNICAL INTEGRATORMay 2022 - July 2024 (2 years and 2 months)Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaWorldline Payments Solutions | Ikea program | EuropeDomain: Payments Integration | Retail Point-of-Sale (POS) Payment Systems | FinTechResponsibilities:• Deploy and oversee application releases and customer solutions across Pre-Production, and Production environments.• Execute end-to-end (E2E) and component-level integration testing, aligned with customer configurationsand Functional Requirement Specifications (FRS).• Document and capitalize work through test plans, test reports, and integration/production best practices.• Create, maintain, and update integration, installation, and deployment documentation.• Ensure upgrades, maintenance, and stability of Acceptance, Pre-Production, and Productionenvironments.• Participate in customer discussions to explain solutions and technical choices when required.• Perform first-level investigation and troubleshooting of integration and deployment issues.• Support Project Managers during customer deployments, as needed.• Configure application packages and configuration files for servers and terminals.• Design and maintain standardized templates for server and terminal configurations.• Support the definition and production of customer-specific configurations.• Ensure effective inter-team and customer communication to orchestrate integration and acceptancephases.• Gather and analyze technical data to define system requirements and constraints.• Define and implement integration strategies across heterogeneous operating system environments.• Research, evaluate, and recommend systems, equipment, and technologies based on organizational andclient needs.• Assist with the maintenance and support of hardware and software infrastructures.• Produce technical documentation including instructions, engineering plans, technical designs, and systemintegration deliverables.• Work directly with clients, on-site or remotely, providing installation, configuration, consulting, and training.
- EndavaEND-TO-END SOFTWARE ENGINEERNovember 2019 - May 2022 (2 years and 6 months)Cluj-Napoca, CJ, RomaniaWorldpay Payment Processing & GatewaysDomain: Payment Acquiring | Banking | Worldpay PlatformsResponsibilities:Database & Batch Processing: Use Oracle SQL for database validations and batch processing; leverageControl-M to execute complete E2E flows.• Perform end-to-end (E2E), integration, functional, and manual testing, ensuring high-quality delivery ofsolutions.• Proficient in JIRA, Rally, Clarity, and ALM for project tracking, defect management, and reporting.• Certified in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe); actively develop user stories, test cases, and acceptancecriteria for manual E2E validations.• Supported root cause analysis for production incidents and complex integration defects• Contributed to continuous improvement initiatives within the Agile Release Train• Maintained visibility of quality metrics, risks, and test progress for stakeholders• Served as a reference point for integration and payment lifecycle topics across teams• Supported onboarding and growth of junior QA engineers
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Education
- LICENTIATE DEGREETECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 'GH. ASACHI'2012LICENTIATE DEGREE
- HIGHSCHOOLMIHAIL SADOVEANU NATIONAL COLLEGE2008HIGHSCHOOL