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Andreea Vitan

@adevitan

Romania

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What I'm looking for

Seeking fully remote Quality Assurance Engineer, Release Manager, Test Manager or QA/Test Lead roles across Europe, including DIGIT-TM III / EU-institution ICT work.

Focus: QA governance, test strategy, UAT, risk-based testing, release readiness, quality gates, go/no-go, Change Management and defect management.

Open to B2B/PFA, contract or permanent roles from Romania.

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.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

QA Engineer / Release Management

Current

Null Expected

May 2026 - Present (4 months)

Independent Quality Assurance Engineer and Release Management Consultant covering QA governance, test strategy, risk-based testing, UAT, defect management, release planning, readiness, quality gates and go/no-go governance. Supports remote EU-institution, DIGIT-TM III and private-sector assignments via Romanian PFA/B2B. Tools include Jira, TestRail, Postman, SQL and CI/CD.

React TypeScript Playwright GitHub Actions End To End Testing SPA Development

Senior QA and Release Manager

LSEG

Aug 2023 - May 2026 (2 years 9 months)

Release Manager for LSEG Workspace across five Agile squads. Led release planning, enterprise release-calendar management, dependencies, ServiceNow Change/CAB alignment, readiness reviews, go/no-go governance, rollback/recovery, post-release validation and hypercare. Created a release-calendar initiative covering 200+ squads and improved schedule adherence to 98%.

Agile Coaching Release Management Test Planning Change Management QA Management

Senior QA Manager

UBS

Sep 2018 - Jul 2023 (4 years 10 months)

Senior QA Manager / Quality Assurance Engineer leading QA planning, test strategy, test campaigns, UAT, quality gates, defect and quality-risk management across distributed Agile teams. Managed 10 QA engineers, produced Test Strategies, Test Plans and Test Summary Reports, and governed functional, integration, API, regression, accessibility and localisation testing.

API Testing Performance Testing Team Leadership QA Management Release Management

QA Lead

Avangate

Jan 2017 - Aug 2018 (1 year 7 months)

QA Lead for a global payments and e-commerce platform. Owned risk-based test strategy, QA planning, API/integration testing, defect triage, release readiness and go/no-go recommendations. Introduced Definition of Ready/Done and risk matrices, strengthened REST/SOAP/SQL validation, and integrated regression checks into CI, reducing manual regression effort by 75%.

API Testing Agile Software Development Test Planning Test Management Test Case Design

QA Engineer & UAT Lead

Various Projects

Nov 2012 - Dec 2016 (4 years 1 month)

UAT Test Lead for Vodafone Netherlands within a large Agile telecom programme. Coordinated UAT scope, execution, defects, blockers and dependencies across an internal and supplier organisation of about 300 people. Managed acceptance evidence, residual risk and sign-off, including BSS, E2E, service-fulfilment and provisioning validation across customer and service journeys.

Manual Testing Exploratory testing API Testing UAT Test Planning