Simion Savcenco

Experience

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  Insoft Global

  Mar 2011 - Jun 2013

  • Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

    Oct 2012 - Jun 2013

  • Quality Assurance Engineer

    Mar 2011 - Oct 2012
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  Worldpay

  Jun 2013 - Nov 2017

  Senior Tester

  Close to business assignments on client's site (UK, London) in a multi-cultural team of contractors. Used to work on several projects in Payments Acquiring industry, focused on data migration, big data testing, test data management, data governance, testing critical business processes, automation, UAT and End to End testing.

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  Endava

  Oct 2016 - Nov 2016

  University Trainer (Software Testing Fundamentals) at Technical University of Moldova (UTM)

  Endava Software Testing Course at Technical University of Moldova

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  Endava

  Mar 2017 - Apr 2017

  University Trainer (Software Testing Fundamentals) at State University of Moldova (USM)
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  Endava

  Nov 2017 - now

  As Testing Discipline Lead, I was part of testing discipline core management group.• Compensation reviewer for 30+ testing engineers• Opportunities identification for testing staff• Responsible for testing delivery for 3 clients’ accounts, staff requests, technical recruitment, interviews, job offers• Coaching and Mentoring• Test Consultancy, Management, Leadership, Performance Monitoring and Evaluations• Helped attract new clients and assisted in sales efforts for successful partnerships.• Created and presented business proposals for medium to large-sized opportunities.• Made sure the work in the discipline was high-quality and helped build a lively community.• Managed both existing and new technical practices, organized technical events, and looked after training plans and budgets.• Worked closely with Career Coaches and Line Managers to help team members grow their careers through personalized training and support.• Developed and implemented workforce planning strategies. Orchestrated staff allocations on projects, rotations, and bench, process optimization.• Facilitated the professional growth of team members through comprehensive induction, performance reviews, and personalized development plans in alignment with business goals.• Decision maker on promotions and managed the salary budget and distribution.• Provided important help for growth of Delivery location, contributing to the organization's success.• Oversaw recruitment and resource allocation to ensure seamless service delivery and team performance• Led efforts to grow and improve our discipline, making sure we were moving in the right direction.• Conducted consistency checks to maintain high-quality service delivery. Show less Automation Test Lead for Data provisioning automation framework, developed by a cross-functional team of senior data engineers and senior test engineers to identify production data based on data requirements of teams involved in acquiring testing.• Team management• Solution architecture and design• Development and Test Strategy creation• Reporting & Release sign-off• Technical development of framework, adding new functionalities, features• Close collaboration with all stakeholders who use the automation framework Show less Responsible for overall data migration testing. Managed a cross-functional team of senior data engineers and senior test engineers that developed an ETL migration test automation framework in PL SQL to validate end-to-end data migration.• On-site assignment (UK, London) to work closely with the programme management• ETL migration team management• Test strategy & plan creation and follow up• Test Reporting and Release sign-off• Technical development of framework, adding new functionalities, features• Close collaboration with ETL development team and stakeholders Show less Product Owner/Scrum Master/Test Manager for Data Generator Accelerator - a generic framework with the scope to generate automatically test data based on client/projects’ business requirements.• Overall delivery strategy and accountability across the initiative• Internal resource identification and allocation, cross-discipline collaboration, team shaping• Data strategy, solution architecture and design• Product owner and scrum master• Requirements gathering and definition• Test strategy and test plans creation, estimates, execution and sign off • Delivery reporting at company level• Solution promotion across internal and external initiatives Show less Responsible for Endava Moldova community/practice strategical vision and growth, technical expertise, consultancy for clients and projects, SME up-skilling, coaching, mentoring, internal evaluation and certification.Focused on providing and growing up data testing expertise in delivery locations. As well, the community major scope is to define the test strategies, tools and test approach based on market needs and set-up career path to the employees related to data.Responsibilities:• Community development strategy• Grow up delivery capability in data testing in the company and outside• Set-up learning paths, materials, define best practices and implement them• Career coaching, identify and grow up subject matter experts• Provide consultancy in commercial and internal projects• Technical evaluation of employees• Trainings in and out of company Show less

  • Delivery Manager

    Nov 2021 - now

  • Test Manager / Senior Consultant (UK, Payments, Acquiring)

    Jul 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Testing Discipline Lead / Compensation Reviewer

    Mar 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Data Provisioning - Automation Lead

    Mar 2021 - Jul 2021

  • Data Migration Lead - ETL Testing (UK, Payments, Acquiring)

    Aug 2019 - Jul 2021

  • Data Generator - Product Owner/Scrum Master/Test Manager

    Dec 2019 - Jun 2021

  • Data Management and Database Testing - Community Lead

    Mar 2017 - Mar 2020

  • University Trainer (Software Testing Fundamentals) at Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (ASEM)

    Oct 2018 - Nov 2018

  • Test Lead / Consultant (Italy, Payments, Acquiring)

    Nov 2017 - Nov 2018