Laurentiu Serban

Experience

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  SIMartis Telecom

  Nov 2004 - Apr 2007

  QA Coordinator & Project Manager

  - Ensuring the support for a team of 6 to 8 QA Engineers, mediating their relation with client’s representatives, Project Managers, software architects, tasks allocation within the project, overseeing day-to-day performance and deliverables, travel and logistic issues.- Integration and testing rating chain (OPSC Gold RTE) configuration changes for telecom operators (Astelit, TIM Brazil), significantly reducing the time-to-market of telecom operator products and special offers. The job included Developing automated testing suites (using a Bash related scripting language and also a Java based test framework) to verify configuration deployment, integrity and data validity, thus by greatly reducing the manual testing effort and also analyzing test results and data validity with focus on product compliance with customer requests.- Conducting training and presentations for new team members or clients, familiarizing the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, design standards, the development process, project/ product specific procedures, techniques and tools to support task performance, business travel 2-3 times a year.- Gathering, consolidating and evaluating feedback from project peers, project experts and project managers about team member’s performance and activities, data which after revisions together with Program and Team Managers was used for the yearly evaluation of the engineers.- The role also included conducting periodical performance evaluation, recommending for promotions or other actions as effect of it and giving input to TM for awarding team and team member accomplishments and exceptional performance. Show less

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  SIVECO Romania

  Apr 2007 - Dec 2007

  QA Engineer

  - As QA Engineer in the Automation Team, I was developing automated test suites in order to decrease the time and effort needed to test various module of a large ERP application. The tests were integrated in a larger suite used by the Core QA team. Before joining the Automation team I was responsible for different ERP modules quality and change requests fast integration, in order to comply with tight deadlines and acceptance testing on customer sites.

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  Computaris

  Jan 2008 - Feb 2011

  Senior QA Engineer & Team Lead

  - Ensuring the support for a team of 6 to 8 QA Engineers, mediating their relation with client’s representatives, Project Managers, software architects, tasks allocation within the project, overseeing day-to-day performance and deliverables, travel and logistic issues.- Integration and testing rating chain (OPSC Gold RTE) configuration changes for telecom operators (Astelit, TIM Brazil), significantly reducing the time-to-market of telecom operator products and special offers. The job included Developing automated testing suites (using a Bash related scripting language and also a Java based test framework) to verify configuration deployment, integrity and data validity, thus by greatly reducing the manual testing effort and also analyzing test results and data validity with focus on product compliance with customer requests.- Conducting training and presentations for new team members or clients, familiarizing the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, design standards, the development process, project/ product specific procedures, techniques and tools to support task performance, business travel 2-3 times a year.- Gathering, consolidating and evaluating feedback from project peers, project experts and project managers about team member’s performance and activities, data which after revisions together with Program and Team Managers was used for the yearly evaluation of the engineers.- The role also included conducting periodical performance evaluation, recommending for promotions or other actions as effect of it and giving input to TM for awarding team and team members accomplishments and exceptional performances. Show less

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  Intel Corporation

  Mar 2011 - Jun 2014

  Coordinating Android QA (Core QA, SDK and HAXM) and Yocto QA (October 2013 - April 2013) engineering teams in Romania.- The initial team comprised of 4 engineers and 10 contractors growing by 2014 to 10 engineers and more than 20 contractors.- Establishing the team’s objectives to fit into the division strategy. Translation of the division directives and projects directions into technical deliverables. Setting the performance indicators and deliverables for the overall team.- Two major Yocto Project releases were successfully delivered and three Android enabled platforms were successfully released with the QA team in charge of testing and validation.- Assessment of needed resources to cover the team objectives. Updating the budget needs on a quarterly basis. Continuously adapting the teams focus and priorities according to the division strategy changes or project needs.- Providing support for the team members in external meetings, managing escalations, clearing communication issues.- Support for the QA team leads to ensure that deadlines are met by enabling when necessary resources reallocation and tasks prioritization.- Guiding engineers to use their skills in the most appropriate area for their technical and personal development. Mentoring the team members to establish long term goals and career paths. Providing guidelines, support and feedback on their accomplishments.- Defining the recruitment criteria for the open positions in the team, recruiting for the new team members and managing their integration process. Overseeing and providing feedback on the contractor recruitment process.- Yearly delivery of the performance evaluation results for the team members. Show less As QA Lead for the Yocto Project (May 2012 - September 2012)- Definition and implementation of automated testing for the project deliverables using Bash and Python scripting and Yocto Project own features.- Ramping up a new QA team (1 engineer and 4 contractors) for the Yocto Project and transferring work from a team overseas. Overseeing the contractor recruitment process and establishing the selection criteria together with the team manager.- Familiarizing the team with the stakeholder needs, specifications, testing targets, testing standards, the development process, product specific procedures, techniques and tools to support task performance.- Maintaining test strategies and plans to keep up with the increased release cadence, meeting the deadlines while keeping the work volume in the normal work week hours.As QA Engineer in the Android team (October 2011 - April 2012)- Definition specification and implementation of test plans and test cases used to cover test and validation for Android OS enabling on Intel x86 architecture.- Implementation of test prerequisites for automated testing and implementation of scripts (Bash and basic Python scripts) to test media streaming on the hardware prototypes.As QA Lead for the MeegoTV team- Definition specification and implementation of test plans and test cases used to cover test and validation for the MeegoTV OS running on Intel x86 boards.- Testing OS components with focus on the XBMC UI and Chromium integration.- The QA Lead the work initially consisted of setting up testing procedures for a newly created QA team and defining the test strategy, targets, exit criteria, performance levels for the QA activity.- The team lead activities consisted also in familiarization of the team with the customer needs, specifications, testing targets, testing standards, the development process, product specific procedures, techniques and tools to support task performance. Show less

  • QA Manager for Android and Yocto teams

    Oct 2012 - Jun 2014

  • QA Lead & QA Engineer

    Mar 2011 - Sept 2012
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  Orga Systems

  Jul 2014 - Oct 2014

  System Development Engineer

  - Analysis and evaluation of requirements specifications for the new features to be integrated. Defining the required test strategy.- Development and maintenance of automated test procedures using proper test strategies and automated tools (Fitnesse, tdl scripts, Bash scripts)- Planning the quality assurance activities.- Test plan definition and implementation based of associated product specifications.- Implementation of test drivers in Bash, SQL, tdl, Java.- Review and documentation of activities in all the phases of product development life cycle.- Project management support for all the post development activities (system integration). Show less

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  Intel Corporation

  Dec 2014 - Jan 2018

  QA Engineer in the System Trace team

  - Running tests for release candidates. Test case management for product features using HP-ALM.- Writing and updating automated tests for the System Trace product using Java based framework (SWTBot) in order to increase the level of automated test coverage.- Configuration and updates for CI system elements: •Adding new infrastructure nodes (builders and testers): setting up servers in the racks, OS installation and software dependencies configuration. •Implementation and updates of build and test scripts for configuration changes related to new infrastructure nodes, software dependencies changes or product requirements updates. •Integration of hardware prototypes into the automated test environment. Show less

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  Continental

  Feb 2018 - now

  Software Integrator