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Chapter Lead
ING Hubs•  September 2020 - Present
Leadership and team management: • Grew the team from 2 to 9 people within 4 years by cultivating a supportive team culture built on trust and empowerment. • Maintained a low turnover rate by fostering an environment that enables team members to level-up their skills and grow within the organization. • Negotiated budgets to ensure provision of new environments, thus enabling the team to achieve their QBR goals. Product ownership: • Acted as a sparring partner for the product owner on new product design and division of responsibilities. • Balanced the PO’s workload by providing backup support and assistance. Agile Methodologies: • Implemented and improved agile methodologies within the team by setting up sprint planning activities, stand-ups, retrospectives and backlog grooming. • Adapted to organizational changes without compromising products quality and release dates. Continuous improvement: • Identified and removed bottlenecks resulting in accelerated product deployment on client data lakes. • Reduced development time through optimization, automation and parallel work streams. • Designed E2E automated flow for package creation and deployment. Tech: • Troubleshooted and researched solutions to solve application-level errors. • Onboarded to Azure DevOps through purpose space and repository creation.
Software Engineer
ING Hubs•  March 2017 - September 2020
Enabled the Data Management tribe to build, test, deploy and release metadata content packages throughout the organization’s diverse landscape of data lakes by developing an upgrade mechanism, creating lighter product versions with less content types for faster deploys, setting up processes, advising o team growth and scrum related activities.
Senior QA Engineer
Deutsche Bank•  December 2014 - March 2017
Ensured product quality by designing tests, executing and logging them. On top of that coordinated UAT sessions and captured stakeholder feedback in order to make sure the product delivers value. I mentored QA engineers and developers on testing guidelines.
QA Engineer
IBM•  June 2012 - December 2014
Ensured product features were delivered with as less defects as possible by creating test plans, designing/running tests and creating quality metrics. Supported internal teams and clients with configurations for product deployment .
Education
University "Titu Maiorescu"
Computer Science, BE•  October 2008 - July 2011