QA Lead · Test Manager · Test Automation Expert

1/2020 – offen

16 years of experience in IT as a Software Engineer, Test Architect, Head of Quality Assurance, QA Mentor and Coach, Agile - People and Project Manager

L. ensures companies deliver the highest quality products and services

Core skills: Leadership, Changing Culture and Mindset of QA Teams, Stakeholder Management, Coaching/Mentoring, IT Strategy and Planning, Test Automation, Process Improvement, Quality and Release Management, Public Speaking/Writing/Teaching

Expertise in eCommerce, Payment Methods, Banking, Web and Mobile Apps testing, Retail, eHealth, WordPress, Mobility, Distributed Architectures.

- Build,lead and coach QA Teams also acting as Scrum Master or Project Manager
- Define company test strategy and architecture, KPIs, quality gates and goals
- Drive test automation framework on different levels (UI, Integration, Unit)
- Define the testing processes to fully integrate with the existing agile software development (SAFe)
- Build/optimize the CD/CI pipeline to minimise the time to market of new versions
- Handling and managing bugs, delivering new releases with quality reports
- Building the QA mindset and culture through mentoring, QA as everybody's responsibility, QA Team as the 'safety net'
- developing QA manual testers into SDETs through teaching and coaching


- 16+ years working for International companies (IBM) as well as various Startups
- Lived in Italy, USA, Germany, Spain, Morocco, France
- Speak Italian, English, and some German and Spanish
- International Patents inventor (10+ Patents)

Management (allg.)

1/2019 – 1/2020

As QA Chapter Lead of the Driver Application Tribe, my responsibility is to lead, mentor and coach a team of QA Engineers and SDETs (Software Development Engineers in Test) during the development of new functionalities of the iOS & Android Application for our Drivers, to build our Quality Assurance framework, test automation, bug handling, processes and methodologies, using a KPI and data-driven based approach into the decision making process.
I put strong focus into leading by example, working hands-on on the several QA aspects involved in the job, stimulating my team and driving them both into their career growth and, at the same tame, helping and contributing towards the delivery of excellence in our Application.
I am in charge also of providing a quality check on our new application releases, and leading the QA contribution to build a fully automated pipeline towards CD/CI.

Qualitätsmanagement / QS / QA (IT)

2/2016 – 12/2018

As Head of QA, my responsibility has been to provide the best user experience to our customers over several shops (DE, CH, IT, ES, FR, PT) including the fast-growing Chinese one, providing quality in each new shop release. In order to achieve this, I have run a team of 10+ people, most of them remotely in our Romanian branch in Sibiu. The team focused on manual testing including frontend (new features, bug fixes, responsive design, mobile devices fragmentation, App testing), Test Automation (building a test automation based on Selenium), backend testing (integration, feeds, scripting, and so on), in a purely agile context (Scrum).
I have been in charge also of managing the new Releases of our shops, from the DevOps pipeline to the QA testing (manual and with Test Automation), until the Live release and the Monitoring of new versions on production systems.
My stakeholders were business people, CTO, Head of Product, Product Owners and Managers, Developers and my role focuses also on strong synchronization activities through these people among the two offices (Germany and Romania), in order to achieve the release of great quality products.
My skills come after almost 10 years of solid IT experience including QA and Development, Test automation Leader and Manager.

Qualitätsmanagement / QS / QA (IT)