Maria Alexandra Comsa

Experience

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  BLUEPHOENIX SOLUTIONS SRL

  Sept 2010 - May 2014

  Responsibilities:- Assist team members in executing assigned tasks- Creating, maintaining and improving the work atmosphere and team spirit- Participate to R&D, Specifications and Delivery meetings- Create test plans- Participate in the evaluations of team members- Participate in the recruiting process- Establish test engineering duties and assign them to team members based on the skills and motivation of each team member- Provide, promptly and in an organized manner, detailed reports on project status to management (weekly reports on team activity, weekly reports on my own activity, periodic reports on the testing process and the quality of the product, project status etc.)- Inform management regarding any issues that might affect deadlines- Provide suggestions and feedback regarding the processes implemented within the team- Write mini-applications and batch scripts in Java SE, in order to automate the QA process- CTU components integration and framework testing- Perform Smoke, Sanity, Functionality, Regression, and Automated testing on CTU product official releases and sometimes on nightly builds- Analyze clients code, report defects and find workarounds if possible- Provide support for the delivery team- Project Testing Support - Onsite and Offsite- Covert sources received from clients as POCs(Proof Of Concept) and POTs(Proof of Translation)Projects:SLFCNew York, USA- R&D contact - main contact person- interacted with the delivery team in order to facilitate the communication between them and the development teams- converted the project and analyzed the issues in order to assure a clean conversion- created reports regarding the project statusAEROSOFT(Canada), ARVATO(Germany), JETRO(New York)- analyzed customer's code in order to assure a clean conversion- discussed with the development teams concerning the issues encountered in order to find a solution- kept track of the defects and created reports regarding the project status Show less Responsibilities:- Write Cobol with SQL, CICS and BMS test cases and run them on IBM z/OS v4r2 mainframe- Create Sample Projects- Perform Smoke, Sanity, Functionality, Regression, and Automated testing on CTU(Cobol To Universal) product official releases and sometimes on nightly builds- CTU components integration and framework testing- Report defects in Bugzilla bug tracking systems- Keep track of the bugs, make sure they are correctly prioritized, verify them in the corresponding release and add them to the automated platform- Review, reproduce and confirm bugs reported by other teams- Debug in Java SE and Java EE 6, 7 (JSF on Tomcat server) test cases and applications- Assure maintenance for the automated tests on a tool based on Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler) and JUnit 4 also using Hudson/Jenkins integration platform- Create reports with bugs impact and projects status- Review design and specification documentsProjects:VASS/BBVAMadrid, SpainAugust 2011 – September 2011- Onsite testing – collaborated directly with the customer in order to understand the project's functionality, to review existing test cases and procedures- Organized customer’s Bugzilla bug tracking system and clarified bugs life cycle- Performed parallel testing on both original code(Cobol on Mainframe) and converted code(java), debugged in order to find the problems and sometimes even solved issues and suggested the fix to the development team, that included it in the delivery Show less

  • QA Translator Team Leader

    Jan 2012 - May 2014

  • QA Analyst

    Sept 2010 - Jan 2012
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  Dell Technologies

  May 2014 - now

  Responsibilities as part of the project team:· Identify project inter-dependencies and risks· Evaluate risks and trade-offs associated with each course of action· Work with the Project Management team to define the project plan and roadmap· Provide input for the resource allocation plan· Create project real time status dashboards· Effectively deliver presentations to key stakeholders and senior management· Interlock engagement and management through the entire project's lifecycle· IT representative in the steering committeeResponsibilities as part of the agile team:· Partner with Product Management team or other leaders to define broad requirements· Analyze the current platform architecture, the existing interfaces, and the impact expected by new features implementation· Define the solution design· Distil the requirements into detailed SMART stories · Take full ownership of the features backlog, their prioritization, and the proposed system solution· Ultimate arbiter on product backlog thus can change product backlog and priority every sprint· “First receiver” for new demand to the team· Responsible for ROI· Balance business requirements with technical feasibility and scalability· Accepts/rejects the stories based on the definition of done· Works with the team to define the release schedule Keeps a clear communication about the scope within the team and with the business team/interlocks/other stakeholders Show less Responsibilities:- Partner with Product Management team or other leaders to define broad requirements- Distil the requirements into detailed SMART stories - Analyze the current platform architecture, the existing interfaces, and the impact expected by new features implementation- Conduct solution for infrastructural features that involve both user-facing applications, business logic back-end components, and 3rd party integrations - Identify project inter-dependencies- Define and track KPIs- Coordinate with testers (QE and UAT) to ensure effective testing, and clear acceptance criteria for testing purposes on user stories- Provide support for the dev team in clarifying requirements as needed- Create and maintain documentation for the applications/projects implemented- Provide evidences for the internal audit- Provide support when it comes to how the applications work Show less Responsibilities:- Performs estimation efforts on projects and tracks progress.- Drafts and revises and test plans and scripts with consideration to end to end system flow.- Executes test scripts according to application requirements documentation.- Conducts a range of quality- control tests and analysis to ensure that software meets or exceeds specifiedstandards and end-user requirements.- Logs defects and identifies course of action and performs preliminary root cause analysis- Analyses and communicates test results to project team- Coordinates multiple testers and test activities within a project.- May act as a Project Test Lead and provide direction to lower level testers.- Retest software corrections to ensure problems are solved.- Documents evolution of testing procedures for future replication.- Identifies, recommends and implements process improvement to enhance testing strategy.- Interacts with other testing members leaders, development, project management, business partners and externalvendor/suppliers.- Creates test data to thoroughly test positive and negative program logic.- Assists in the analyzing of project requirements and design.- Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate test plans. Show less

  • Product Manager

    Dec 2020 - now

  • Product Owner

    Feb 2018 - Dec 2020

  • Senior Business Analyst

    May 2017 - Feb 2018

  • Testing Engineer Advisor

    Jan 2016 - May 2017

  • Testing Engineer Senior Analyst

    May 2014 - Jan 2016