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I’m Bianca Bleoca, a Senior QA Automation Engineer with over ten years of experience ensuring software quality across UI and backend systems. I specialize in building reliable automated test suites, performing performance testing, and integrating quality gates into CI/CD to help teams release robust software. I enjoy solving complex problems, mentoring junior testers, and continuously learning new tools like cloud platforms and AI-powered testing. In my free time I take on freelancing Upwork projects and stay hands-on with automation and API testing.…I’m Bianca Bleoca, a Senior QA Automation Engineer with over ten years of experience ensuring software quality across UI and backend systems. I specialize in building reliable automated test suites, performing performance testing, and integrating quality gates into CI/CD to help teams release robust software. I enjoy solving complex problems, mentoring junior testers, and continuously learning new tools like cloud platforms and AI-powered testing. In my free time I take on freelancing Upwork projects and stay hands-on with automation and API testing.

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I’m Bianca Bleoca, a Senior QA Automation Engineer with over ten years of experience ensuring software quality across UI and backend systems. I specialize in building reliable automated test suites, performing performance testing, and integrating quality gates into CI/CD to help teams release robust software. I enjoy solving complex problems, mentoring junior testers, and continuously learning new tools like cloud platforms and AI-powered testing. In my free time I take on freelancing Upwork projects and stay hands-on with automation and API testing.…I’m Bianca Bleoca, a Senior QA Automation Engineer with over ten years of experience ensuring software quality across UI and backend systems. I specialize in building reliable automated test suites, performing performance testing, and integrating quality gates into CI/CD to help teams release robust software. I enjoy solving complex problems, mentoring junior testers, and continuously learning new tools like cloud platforms and AI-powered testing. In my free time I take on freelancing Upwork projects and stay hands-on with automation and API testing.

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I’m Bianca Bleoca, a Senior QA Automation Engineer with over ten years of experience ensuring software quality across UI and backend systems. I specialize in building reliable automated test suites, performing performance testing, and integrating quality gates into CI/CD to help teams release robust software.

I enjoy solving complex problems, mentoring junior testers, and continuously learning new tools like cloud platforms and AI-powered testing. In my free time I take on freelancing Upwork projects and stay hands-on with automation and API testing.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Language

Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan

Fluent

English

Fluent

Spanish; Castilian

Advanced

German

Beginner

Italian

Beginner

Work Experience

Professional development

June 1, 2024 - Present

I used this period to deepen my technical knowledge by earning certifications in cloud technology and programming, which align directly with my career goals.

Test Analyst at Cognizant Technology Solutions

February 1, 2017 - May 1, 2024

Contributed to various waterfall and agile projects at UBS Switzerland in Zürich, including the Keyport project as both a QA Software Analyst and a Business Analyst. Other projects included Payments Backend, E-Banking Products and Cards, PSD2 End-to-End, and NCC. Conducted comprehensive testing of security/authentication apps. Identified and resolved critical issues early in the testing phase, reducing release delays by 20% and increasing product reliability by 30%, based on post-launch incident tracking. Developed test plans and test cases to ensure the application's functionality, usability, and security. Testing of web and mobile applications for E-Banking and AccessApp, payment flow and technical environments. Document and control test activities. Reading and debugging code. Mentored junior testers, guiding testing best practices and tools.

QA Software Engineer at Kalixa Payments Group

August 1, 2015 - February 1, 2017

Agile scrum integration for payment application, payment services and ElectronicWallet. Conducted testing for payment services and Electronic Wallet apps. Designed and developed test cases and plans for new product features and improvements. Executed integration, functional, usability, regression, exploratory, system and E2E testing. Participating in risk analysis and threat modelling activities to identify potential security vulnerabilities and propose risk mitigation strategies. Investigating the reported issues and identifying the source of failure. Closely working with business and development to deliver stories and rollout applications with no issues, ensuring the quality of the applications at the end of each sprint.

QA Software Engineer at Accenture Industrial Software Solutions

April 1, 2014 - August 1, 2015

Agile scrum integration payment application, payment services and ElectronicWallet. Perform hands-on automated & manual testing of new functionality & regression testing of existing functionality on UI, APIs, and Back-end side. Perform hands on QA activities like functional requirements review, test design and execution and test environment management. Reading and debugging C# code. Evaluate defects and bug tracking using Confluence and Jira. Automate Business acceptance criteria through BDDs using Selenium and SpecFlow. Participation in the product lifecycle, planning, estimation, task breakdown, testing, deploying and rollout to production environments.

QA Software Engineer at Softing GmbH

February 1, 2013 - April 1, 2014

Waterfall-based project for automotive diagnosis. Testing of ECU embedded systems. Automate the test cases for diagnostics and function tests of ECUs, using SmartBear products. Providing measurement and diagnostics, with the engineering tools DTS Monaco and DTS Venice to administer ODX/PDX databases and edit ECU diagnostics. Working with Asam MCD standards and ODX technology, using the diagnostic protocols (UDS, KWP, OBD). Provide products covering the entire life cycle of an ECU, using DTS8 as a Diagnostic tool.

Application Development and configuration of procedures for customers data at Re Collection

December 1, 2012 - February 1, 2013

Application Development and configuration of procedures for customers data using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2010, C#, .NET 3.5/4.0, ADO.NET, XML, LINQ, SQL, Oracle/PL SQL.

Application Developer at Re Collection, Cluj

December 1, 2012 - February 1, 2013

Net Programme. Application Development and configuration of procedures for customers data using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2010, C#, .NET 3.5/4.0, ADO.NET, XML, LINQ, SQL, Oracle/PL SQL.

Test Analyst – for UBS Bank at Cognizant Technology Solutions

February 1, 2017 - May 1, 2024

Contributed to multiple waterfall and agile projects (Keyport, Payments Backend, E-Banking Products, Cards, PSD2 End-to-End, NCC). Designed and maintained automated functional test suites using STEP, improving test coordination and execution reliability. Integrated automated test and monitoring results into GitLab CI pipelines for faster feedback and consistent release quality. Developed and executed performance and load test scenarios with k6 and JMeter to identify bottlenecks and improve backend response times. Collaborated with DevOps/SRE to embed quality gates, dashboards, and alerting in the SDLC. Performed end-to-end testing across distributed systems, authentication, and payment flows; used Selenium and Playwright for synthetic monitoring. Built automated API, mobile, and web tests integrated with CI, improved test data quality, and mentored junior testers.

Professional Development at Self-employed

June 1, 2024 - Present

Used this period to deepen technical expertise through hands-on learning and practical application. Completed certifications including Google Cloud Digital Leader, Google IT Automation with Python, and Develop Generative AI Applications (IBM). Delivered several small freelancing projects on Upwork, applying automation, API testing, and cloud fundamentals to real client use cases.

Senior Test Automation at Kalixa Payments Group

August 1, 2015 - February 1, 2017

Developed and executed automated test scripts using Selenium, SpecFlow, and API tools; integrated them into CI pipelines for continuous validation. Performed load and stress testing for payment APIs using JMeter, validating behavior under high transactional volume. Debugged backend and distributed systems to ensure stable performance across microservices-based payment components.

QA Automation Software Engineer at Accenture Industrial Software Solutions

April 1, 2014 - August 1, 2015

Built automated test suites for backend and API components and integrated them into CI-based workflows to support scalable automated regression cycles.

.Net Programmer at Re Collection

December 1, 2012 - February 1, 2013

Application development and configuration of procedures for customer data using Microsoft Visual Studio, C#, .NET 3.5/4.0, ADO.NET, XML, LINQ, SQL, Oracle/PL SQL.