Bogdan Danciu Lead Software Quality Assurance at Ixia danciu.bogdan@gmail.com Summary open minded, team player, detail oriented, problem solver Experience Lead Software QA Engineer at Ixia May 2010 - Present (4 years 4 months) Stepped in as acting Project Manager for 9 months and successfully delivered 3 major project releases. Demonstrate leadership in testing activities (planning, execution, debugging, setup configuration, automation etc.) Developing quality improvement plan that decreased to 19% the number of incoming customer issues over the first year when it was applied, while considering an increase in customer base. Leading QA efforts across multiple ongoing projects (monthly and bi-weekly updates). Tracking and prioritizing of a medium to large project; Enforce QA process within the team. Provide input for resource allocation to Manager; lead scoping efforts for up-coming features, estimate effort Create and track project plans using Microsoft Project and Rally. Perform customer related activities (technical presentations, demos). Handle transfer of information to support and product management. Participate in hiring process and train new team members by my own developed ramp up plan. Handle one on one meetings with team members (both QAE and DevE). Senior Software QA Engineer at Ixia April 2008 - May 2010 (2 years 2 months) Translate Marketing (FRD/PRD) use cases in test scenarios; define System Test scenarios. Investigate and provide input for customer support escalations. Organize and provide input in Functional Specification/Test Plan review. Coordinating several major features: accurate effort estimation, progress tracking and status reporting. Provide technical supervision and guidance. Software QA Engineer II at Ixia October 2006 - April 2008 (1 year 7 months) Design and document test plan and test cases for API support of L23 protocols. Write TCL scripts to test the High Level Tcl Api. Configuring Ixia and Cisco equipments and troubleshoot issues. Follow QA life cycle according to Ixia documented standards and practices. QA Engineer at ITC Networks Page1
April 2005 - October 2006 (1 year 7 months) Design, Develop and Execute test plan and test cases to cover functional, scalability, performance and system testing for L2-7 Nortel switches. Generating real traffic (Ixia) to test workload of IBM Blade Server Switching solution. Responsible on quality of the Network Management System project - using SNMP to manage Nortel devices. IT Specialist at CNV Networking October 2003 - April 2005 (1 year 7 months) Supporting clients that have Software/Hardware issues & providing maintenance Deploying / configuring small-medium LANs and debugging connectivity issues Windows 2000/2003 Server Maintenance & Administration Courses QA Engineer ITC Networks "Fundamentals of UNIX/Linux" by InfoAcademy Senior Software QA Engineer Ixia "Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks" by Cisco "Cisco Certified Network Associate Security" by Cisco "Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks" by Cisco Lead Software QA Engineer Ixia "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Franklin Covey "Building a Search Engine in Python" by Udacity IT Specialist CNV Networking "Cisco Certified Network Associate" by Cisco Page2
Certifications CCNA Pearson VUE Languages English Romanian French (Professional working proficiency) (Native or bilingual proficiency) (Elementary proficiency) Skills & Expertise Test Automation TCP/IP Testing Software Quality Assurance Test Planning Linux System Testing Quality Assurance SNMP Test Cases TCL Network Administration Perl Debugging IXIA Troubleshooting Python CCNA Security MS Project Regression Testing Applications Team Leadership Cisco Technologies Networking Rally Deep Packet Inspection Wireshark Web Crawling Web Applications HTTP Software Project Management System Automation Process Automation Page3
Education Polytechnic University of Bucharest Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, 2000-2005 Activities and Societies: Students' League National College Alexandru Lahovari of Rimnicu Vilcea High School, Mathematics and Computer Science, 1996-2000 Grade: 9.68 Interests new technologies, project management, system automation, digital photography Page4
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