IRINA MUSTEA

Mob: 069 68 73 13
E-mail: mustea.irina@gmail.com
LinkedIn Profile: au.linkedin.com/in/musteairina

SOFTWARE TEST ANALYST

>> functional, integration, exploratory, mobile, usability, regression, UAT, automation, performance
>> software quality test planning, control and assistance
>> JIRA, Quality Center, Postman, JMeter, RubyMine, Selenium IDE

● 10+ years of experience in functional, regression ● Ability to communicate well with clients,
and exploratory testing in mobile, e-commerce, development team and business analysts;
media, educational, financial and real estate sectors
as well as in a wide range of Web development ● Good analytical and task management skills;
projects;
● Solid understanding of manual testing methods and
● 4 years of API testing creating automation test processes in creating test plans and design
suites in Postman; specifications according to requirements;
● An adequate understanding of performance testing ● Understanding the software development life-cycles
being actively involved in load and stress routine in both the Iterative and Agile environments;
practices managed via JMeter;
● Positive and helpful team-player with the ability to
● 2 years of experience in automation testing using
work efficiently either in a team or to my own
RubyMine/Cucumber test framework;
initiative;
● Handle test planning, requirements analysis, and
● A high level of workmanship with an eye for detail
translating business processes into test cases;
during defect identification and test result analysis;
● Practical experience in assessment
● Interested in software usability (comprehensibility,
● Defined issues and risks; assisted in improvement efficiency, error-prevention); focused on final user
of communication and on-time delivery of projects; satisfaction criteria;

● Excellent at working with subject-matter experts to ● Constant contributor to team-building and

gather information, identify relevant technical data knowledge-sharing meet-ups.
and audiences, and write documents that are clear
and user friendly.

IT TOOLS and SKILLS SUMMARY

● Testing areas: desktop, mobile, web, touch-screen applications

● Test environments: Agile, Iterative
● Test management tools: HP Quality Center, TestLink, JIRA
● Automation tools: RubyMine IDE; Bamboo; Selenium IDE (Firefox add-on); Cucumber;
iMacros
● Database: MS SQL; My SQL
● Version control: CVS; Bitbucket
● Cross-browser testing tools: BrowserStack, User-Agent Switcher
● Virtual machines: Oracle VirtualBox, Windows Virtual PC
● Operating systems: PC, Macintosh, Linux
● Video and image editing and graphics: Kdnlive, Photoshop, Gimp, Visio
● Location detection tool: HMA!ProVPN, Chrome developer tools
● API testing: Advanced REST client, Postman, Fiddler
● Localisation and analytics
● HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery

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 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2017 – 2021 TEST ANALYST

University of Newcastle, Australia (https://www.newcastle.edu.au)
Public university
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Roles and Responsibilities:

● Managed and run integration, functional, cross-mobile, API testing to guarantee the smooth functioning and performance of
the University native app;
● Liaise with multiple vendors, business and stakeholders around UAT testing and data validation.

Key Achievements:
● Launched API automation testing practices that helped to spot defects at an early testing stage.
● Promoted peer code reviews and unit testing bringing into focus the importance of code validation and creation of
automation tests before system integration.

2014 – 2016 TEST ENGINEER

Fairfax Media, Australia (http://www.fairfaxmedia.com.au)
Media company
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Roles and Responsibilities:

● Actively involved in testing of the digital subscriptions and membership functionality for three major Australian on-line media
suppliers;
● Ensured the functionality is compatible on the latest browser versions and most popular mobile devices.

Key Achievements:
● Was responsible and took complete ownership for signing off the weekly releases.
● Gave company-wide QA team an incentive to apply Cucumber methods in the automation test scripts.
● Successful applied crowd testing and blitz testing technique.

2012 – 2014 QA ENGINEER

Symantec, Australia (http://www.symantec.com)
Security storage and system management solution company
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Roles and Responsibilities:

● Being a part of an Agile team, ensured the quality of the software delivered each two weeks;
● Designed and run automation testing based on Selenium IDE;
● Developed test plans and executed functional tests for e-commerce and media Web applications;
● Tested mobile and desktop application versions on different browsers.

Key Achievements:
● Initiated the preparation of regression test packages for Norton Hotspot Privacy and Norton Internet Security shopping carts
and MobileSecurity.Com website.
● Contributed in suggesting corrective action plans through investigation of formal requirements and their further escalation
during the software analysis and design phase.

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 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED 1)

2003 – 2012 Endava, Moldova ((http://endava.com)

IT services company
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TEST ENGINEER Cision USA project (www.cision.com)

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Responsible for functional and regression testing of media management application, including audio and video content
development;
● Analysed and reported on a daily basis the testing data using the HP Quality Center database;
● Performed tests using multiple browsers on PC and Macintosh;
● Developed and edited test cases for defects and features based on business and functional requirements.

Key Achievements:
● Provided mentoring and support for new team members and clients in a friendly manner either verbally, via e-mail or Skype.

TEST ENGINEER Project Accounting System (PAS) project

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Performed functional and database tests (bi-weekly releases) of accounting software system providing actual data
collection, processing, storage and forecast calculation, as well as comparison of actual and forecasting figures;
● Set new builds on QA environment; created database back-ups;
● Built up test plans and created functional and regression test cases;
● Created and executed SQL scripts for database tests;
● Participated in daily stand-up meetings discussing features to be tested, implementation and testing schedules and
requirements.

Part-time Work:
● Built test environments and executed functional testing for multiple small projects in accordance with the test plan.
Key Achievements:
● Prioritised tasks efficiently ensuring they were completed on time and within budget;
● Escalated issues on the need to improve the regression testing procedures and designed the regression package structure;
● Recognised probable test issues and developed corrective action plans through investigation of formal test results in order
to discover and report any defects.

Extra-working Activity:
● As an active member of Database Discipline Team, developed discipline-related tasks, established milestones during
company-wide meetings and contributed in writing to MS SQL instructive guides.

TEST ENGINEER Maintenance team

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Software testing, including functional, boundary value, security, and smoke tests of a UK social housing application;
● Developed and edited project-related technical documentation;
● Reporting to the Test Manager any issues or potential prioritisation conflicts.

Key Achievements:
● Have been promoted to the Test Engineer position with the career advancement opportunity in QA and testing.

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 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED 2)

2003 – 2012 Endava, Moldova ((http://endava.com)

IT services company
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TECHNICAL WRITER / USABILITY TESTER QA Department

Roles and Responsibilities

● Created, edited, maintained department-related documentation;
● Administered QA intranet web-site and helped to structure company’s local documentation repository;
● Ensured adherence to usability and language norms in company’s products;
● Ensured test documentation of different projects and QA Department is compliant with company regulations.

Key Achievements:
● Assisted the Head of QA Department in establishing new testing procedures helping to achieve ISO 9001 standards and
pass the external audit;
● Demonstrated the ability to be proactive in providing team-building ideas for the company employees and opportunities for
improvement in team-working.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

1997-2001 Bachelor of Business Administration

Newport University, Moldova

1996-2001 Bachelor of Arts, Germanic Languages

Free International University of Moldova

Professional Training: Exploratory Testing Workshop, Australia, 2012

An autodidact learning from books and Internet, never-ending process since university graduation

Further Training: First Aid Course, Australia, 2016

LANGUAGES

● English (advanced writing and speaking skills, technical language)

● Romanian (excellent writing and speaking
● Russian (excellent writing and speaking)
● Ukrainian (good command of speaking and reading)
● German (basic reading)
● Spanish (basic reading)

REFERENCES

Tia Hogan Constantin Shura Sanjishna Pandey Roman Kulish

The University of Newcastle, Endava, Fairfax Media, Symantec,
Test Manager QA Team Lead QA Lead Web Development Manager

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