Andreea Vitan – Quality Assurance Engineer & Release Manager
13+ years across enterprise QA, test governance and release management. Available for DIGIT-TM III and other EU-institution ICT assignments, fully remote from Romania through a Romanian VAT-registered PFA/B2B setup.
My background combines programme-level quality assurance, hands-on testing and release governance across regulated financial services, banking, payments, telecom and SaaS. I work across QA planning, test strategy, test campaigns, UAT, defect and quality-risk management, release planning, readiness reviews, go/no-go governance, change coordination, post-release validation and continuous improvement.
Primary EU ICT profiles
Quality Assurance Engineer
Senior QA leadership aligned with quality assurance planning, quality-control procedures, test strategy, quality assessment, test campaign coordination, defect and quality-trend analysis, quality risks and process improvement.
- QA plans, test strategy and risk-based coverage
- Functional, integration, regression, API, exploratory and UAT testing
- Test campaign coordination across distributed teams
- Defect governance, root-cause analysis and quality-risk management
- Quality gates, readiness criteria and acceptance evidence
- Test Summary Reports, dashboards and stakeholder reporting
- QA procedures, playbooks and continuous improvement
Release Manager
End-to-end release-management experience across multi-squad enterprise environments, with emphasis on release planning, governance, dependencies, readiness, traceability and controlled decision-making.
- Release planning, scheduling and enterprise release calendars
- Cross-team dependency and release-risk management
- Change Management and deployment coordination
- Structured release-readiness reviews and go/no-go governance
- Release criteria, quality gates and documented risk acceptance
- Rollback, recovery and contingency planning
- Post-release validation, hypercare and stabilisation
- Release KPIs, CI/CD quality signals and reporting
Relevant experience
LSEG – Senior QA & Release Manager
Release Manager for LSEG Workspace, coordinating the end-to-end release process across multiple Agile squads. The work covered release planning, enterprise release-calendar management, cross-team dependencies, Change Management alignment, readiness reviews, quality gates, go/no-go governance and post-release stabilisation across desktop, web, mobile and API delivery.
I owned release readiness and quality governance across five squads and used Jira, Confluence, TestRail and ServiceNow evidence to support controlled release decisions. I also conceived and led an enterprise release-calendar initiative covering more than 200 squads, standardising release dates, ownership, dependencies and deliverables and consolidating Jira and ServiceNow data through Power BI.
Measured outcomes included 98% schedule adherence, 50% fewer rollbacks and a 20% improvement in MTTR.
UBS Switzerland – Senior QA Manager
Led QA strategy and delivery across distributed Agile squads for UBS.com and related digital journeys based on Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Campaign. Responsibilities included QA planning, test strategy, quality assessment, test campaigns, functional and non-functional testing, API and integration validation, accessibility, localisation, UAT, quality reporting and release-readiness evidence.
I managed QA engineers directly, coordinated environments and test data, created QA procedures and playbooks adopted across a wider engineering organisation, and supported acceptance and go/no-go decisions through traceable testing evidence and residual-risk reporting.
Payments, telecom and product QA
Earlier experience includes QA leadership for the Avangate / 2Checkout / Verifone global payment and e-commerce platform, large-scale UAT coordination for Vodafone Netherlands, and hands-on release QA for Advanced Web Ranking. Across these assignments I worked with test planning, manual and exploratory testing, API and SQL validation, defect management, acceptance testing, Test Summary Reports, release sign-off and customer-facing quality evidence.
Quality assurance and release-management expertise
- Quality Assurance Engineering
- QA governance and quality control
- Test management and test strategy
- Risk-based testing
- Test planning and test campaigns
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Functional and integration testing
- API testing and data validation
- Defect management and triage
- Quality metrics and reporting
- Software release management
- Release planning and scheduling
- Release readiness and quality gates
- Go/no-go governance
- Change Management
- Risk and dependency management
- Rollback and contingency planning
- Post-release validation and hypercare
- Stakeholder and supplier coordination
- Agile and Scrum delivery
Tools and technical context
Test management and governance: Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, ServiceNow, Power BI.
Testing and validation: Postman, Newman, Swagger / OpenAPI, SQL, MySQL, JMeter, BrowserStack, Applitools, Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, REST Assured.
CI/CD and quality signals: Git, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, SonarQube, production monitoring.
I use CI/CD and automated-test signals as inputs to quality and release decisions. My core focus is QA governance, test strategy, release readiness, risk management and evidence-based decision-making rather than deployment engineering.
Certifications and languages
- ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level
- Professional Scrum Master I
- Adobe Certified Expert – AEM Sites Business Practitioner
- Cambridge English C2
- Romanian – native
- English – C2
- French – B1-B2
EU ICT contract availability
I am an EU citizen based in Romania and available for fully remote EU-institution and private-sector assignments. I can work through my Romanian VAT-registered PFA on a B2B basis and am also open to fixed-term, interim, project-based and permanent engagements where remote work from Romania is supported.
Primary target profiles: Quality Assurance Engineer and Release Manager. I also consider closely related Test Manager, QA Manager, Test Lead, UAT Lead and QA / release-governance assignments where the responsibilities match my experience.
I am particularly interested in DIGIT-TM III and other EU-institution ICT programmes where suppliers require experienced professionals in quality assurance, testing, release governance, UAT, acceptance, readiness and controlled software delivery.