Dragos Spanu

Senior QA leader with 13+ years in banking and fintech, currently leading QA strategy and automation architecture for digital banking platforms.

Own and lead the SME Quality Assurance function across the bank’s digital ecosystem, strengthening quality engineering maturity, delivery governance, and release reliability for business-critical banking platforms.

Key Achievements & Impact:
• Lead and mentor the SME QA team, continuously raising engineering maturity, testing standards, and automation adoption
• Define and optimize QA strategy, f

Stepped into an interim leadership role to stabilize and coordinate QA operations across the chapter during a critical transition period.

Key Contributions & Results:
• Provided direction and mentorship to QA engineers across multiple teams
• Managed prioritization, delivery coordination, and QA execution across concurrent initiatives
• Maintained and optimized QA tools, environments, and testing

Consulted for a rapidly growing digital bank, contributing hands-on expertise while shaping enterprise QA engineering practices.

Key Contributions & Results:
• Designed and implemented scalable test automation frameworks supporting Web, API, and integration layers
• Strengthened QA engineering standards and testing practices across delivery teams
• Provided technical mentorship to junior and mid-

Brought in as a consultant to design, build, and scale the entire Quality Assurance function from the ground up for a fast-growing European technology startup, establishing QA as a core engineering and delivery capability.

Key Achievements & Impact:
• Designed and implemented the end-to-end QA ecosystem from inception, including QA strategy, operating model, processes, tooling, and governance
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Engaged as a consultant to support enterprise test automation initiatives within one of Europe’s largest Tier-1 banking institutions, operating in a highly regulated, large-scale environment.

Key Contributions & Impact:
• Implemented and enhanced the test automation strategy for critical banking applications, improving test reliability and execution consistency
• Strengthened QA automation workfl

Led a cross-functional engineering team (Frontend, Backend, DevOps, and QA) for Europe’s leading hosting & digital services provider, delivering business-critical hosting and digital services at scale.

Key Achievements & Impact:
• Tripled the engineering organization size through structured hiring, onboarding, and team development, supporting rapid business growth
• Led and mentored multi-discipl

Owned and scaled the QA function for Europe’s largest email platforms (GMX & WEB.DE), operating in a high-traffic, consumer-scale environment.

Key Achievements & Impact:
• Led and developed a team of QA engineers across manual and automated testing
• Established QA processes, standards, and tooling, driving improvements in quality, efficiency, and cross-team collaboration
• Served as the primary

Contributed as a senior individual contributor within large-scale consumer platforms.

Key Contributions:
• Designed and implemented test automation strategies for backend and frontend systems
• Built performance testing suites supporting high-traffic applications
• Supported hiring, onboarding, and mentoring of QA engineers
• Improved QA workflows and automation reliability

Technologies & Platfo

Contributed as a senior QA engineer within a high-growth technology startup, later acquired by Google, supporting rapid product development across mobile and backend platforms.

Key Contributions:
• Designed and implemented automated test suites for desktop and mobile applications
• Built performance testing scenarios for backend services, supporting scalability and reliability
• Executed function

Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, completed in 2012.