Roles & Responsibilities

A consolidated view of roles, scope, and impact — May 2013 to today.

Fortis Games

Bucharest, Romania • 2023 → present

  1. Sr QA Lead
    Feb 2024 — Present
    Leadership • AI / Agentic tooling • Automation • Reporting • Risk engineering
    Leadership & Team Management
    • Led and coordinated a team of QA Analysts and POD Leads
    • Oversaw staffing strategy aligned with development roadmaps and release cycles
    • Co-authored the QA automation roadmap with QA leadership, earning C-suite approval
    QA Process & Strategy
    • Pioneered, improved, and scaled QA processes across the project lifecycle
    • Partnered with Development and Production to improve product health and shape delivery timelines through risk and capacity planning
    • Standardized test processes and documentation frameworks
    AI / Agentic Tooling
    • Designed a Claude Code agentic AI assistant — 15+ skills, sub-agents — giving QA instant project context and automated workflows
    • Developed a custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in Python, exposing a safety-hardened test management API to AI agents
    • Engineered AI integrations across ticketing, messaging, documentation, analytics, source control, and test management platforms
    Test Automation
    • Authored mobile game E2E automation in C# / .NET covering FTUE, core gameplay, smoke, and build-health scenarios
    • Automated recurring workflows using Python scripting
    Reporting & Cross-Team Visibility
    • Defined quality metrics and KPIs, built Looker dashboards, and partnered with Data Analysts to drive data-driven decisions
    • Built Python pipelines that fuse production analytics, test execution, and ticketing activity into auto-generated weekly, release, and bug burndown reports
    • Built a cross-team change digest aggregating weekly updates from multiple product repos into an executive brief with a QA spotlight
    Risk & Quality Engineering
    • Built proactive code-and-content-scanning workflows that detect anti-patterns, broken references, duplicate IDs, and missing safety checks, surfacing defects before manual QA begins
    Directed Testing & Personas
    • Designed exploratory-testing player personas and a commit-driven generator producing persona-targeted directed test packs per release
  2. Sr QA Analyst
    Apr 2023 — Feb 2024
    Quality execution • Story validation • Test coverage
    • Validate changes and implementations, ensure release readiness
    • Create and maintain test cases and documentation
    • Support process improvements and QA standards adoption

Electronic Arts (EA)

Bucharest, Romania • 2013 → 2023

  1. QA Architect
    Jun 2020 — Mar 2023
    Data-driven QA • Metrics • Leadership
    • Define and monitor quality metrics and KPIs
    • Automate daily activities with Python scripting
    • Create and maintain Power BI reports
    • Collaborate with Data Analysts to innovate reports and data gathering
    • QA Owner for Telemetry validation (functionality, data quality, consistency)
    • Validate large-scale telemetry consistency via SQL in Google BigQuery
    • POD Lead over monetization and player retention features
    • Lead and coordinate a team of analysts and testers
    • Department-level peer mentoring
    Jira BigQuery TM4J / Zephyr TestRail Amazon Redshift
  2. Sr Quality Analyst
    Jun 2018 — Jun 2020
    Metrics • Reporting • Telemetry monitoring
    • Define and monitor quality metrics and KPIs
    • Create and maintain Power BI reports
    • Collaborate with Data Analysts on reporting and data gathering
    • Monitor live telemetry data to understand user behavior
    • Drive efficiency through process improvements, tooling, and automation
    • Define test processes and documentation standards
  3. DevQA Quality Analyst II
    Sep 2017 — Jun 2018
    Tools testing • SQL/DB updates • Exec reporting
    • Create sprint/milestone status reports for executive visibility
    • Create XML-based test content for QA
    • Plan and coordinate qualitative feedback sessions + report outcomes
    • Create KPI reports for project visibility
    • Primary QA owner for web live content tools and features
    • Run SQL queries and perform DB changes to cover tool gaps
    • Work in agile with Dev team and perform pre-integration testing
    • Create test briefs based on feature briefs
    • Peer mentoring for new DevQA employees
  4. DevQA Quality Analyst I
    Jul 2015 — Sep 2017
    Web live tools • Telemetry ownership • Test planning
    • Create sprint/milestone status reports for executive visibility
    • Primary QA owner for web live content tools and features
    • Run SQL queries and perform DB changes when tools were unavailable
    • Pre-integration testing on newly introduced features
    • Test plan creation for telemetry events assigned by Production
    • Peer mentoring and feedback on feature/design proposals
  5. QA Tester II
    Feb 2015 — Jul 2015
    Test planning • Mentoring • Reporting
    • Create/edit test plans based on new features and design documents
    • Mentor and supervise testers (including task assignment during PTO coverage)
    • Bug regression and verify sweeps to ensure safe changes
    • Daily status reporting with testing progress and project overview
  6. QA Tester
    May 2013 — Feb 2015
    Foundational QA execution
    • Functional testing, issue identification, and verification support
Core strengths
QA Strategy Leadership & Team Management Test Management AI / Agentic Tooling MCP & LLM Integrations Python automation Looker / Dashboards SQL / BigQuery Test Automation (C# / .NET) Risk & Quality Engineering