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Ioana AncutaIA

Ioana Ancuta

Customer Delivery Lead - FinTech/Payments

€400/day
Cluj-Napoca, RO
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Ioana

  • Romanian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Cluj-Napoca (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Endava
    CUSTOMER DELIVERY
    July 2024 - Today (1 year and 11 months)
    Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    Worldline Payments Solutions | Ikea program | Europe
    Domain: Payments Integration | Retail Point-of-Sale (POS) Payment Systems | FinTech
    Responsibilities:
    • Provide hands-on support to Delivery teams during Pre-Prod and Pilot/Prod phases, and to clients during
    UAT and Production Pilot phases.
    • Manage incidents, emergencies, and crises by prioritizing effectively and escalating when necessary to
    ensure 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 by
    shared tracking spaces and review meetings.
    • Define, own, and maintain a realistic end-to-end implementation roadmap, from discovery to
    deployment, covering new features, bug fixes, and internal maintenance.
    • Track and control binary releases, ensuring the correct versions (features and fixes) are deployed to the
    appropriate environments at the right time.
    • Coordinate and monitor multiple development squads to keep delivery on schedule and manage
    production 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 and
    company processes (IAM, CAB, Integration team processes).
    • Organize and actively participate in internal (Agile) and external (client) governance and follow-up
    meetings. 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 effective
    communication, setting an example for the team.
  • Endava
    TECHNICAL INTEGRATOR
    May 2022 - July 2024 (2 years and 2 months)
    Cluj-Napoca, Romania
    Worldline Payments Solutions | Ikea program | Europe
    Domain: Payments Integration | Retail Point-of-Sale (POS) Payment Systems | FinTech
    Responsibilities:
    • 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 configurations
    and 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 Production
    environments.
    • 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 acceptance
    phases.
    • 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 and
    client needs.
    • Assist with the maintenance and support of hardware and software infrastructures.
    • Produce technical documentation including instructions, engineering plans, technical designs, and system
    integration deliverables.
    • Work directly with clients, on-site or remotely, providing installation, configuration, consulting, and training.
  • Endava
    END-TO-END SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    November 2019 - May 2022 (2 years and 6 months)
    Cluj-Napoca, CJ, Romania
    Worldpay Payment Processing & Gateways
    Domain: Payment Acquiring | Banking | Worldpay Platforms
    Responsibilities:

    Database & Batch Processing: Use Oracle SQL for database validations and batch processing; leverage
    Control-M to execute complete E2E flows.
    • Perform end-to-end (E2E), integration, functional, and manual testing, ensuring high-quality delivery of
    solutions.
    • 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 acceptance
    criteria 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 DEGREE
    TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY 'GH. ASACHI'
    2012
    LICENTIATE DEGREE
  • HIGHSCHOOL
    MIHAIL SADOVEANU NATIONAL COLLEGE
    2008
    HIGHSCHOOL

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