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MIHAI SERDEAN

Software QA & Testing Services

Successfully delivering fully automated

functional and performance test frameworks

and complete test reports

to renowned companies around the world.

+10 years of IT Software, Information Technology and Services

http://mihai-serdean.com/

http://www.mihai-serdean.com/

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Contents

Objectives ............................................................................................................................................... 3

Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 3

Software Testing Services Offered .......................................................................................................... 4

People & Companies I have worked with/for ......................................................................................... 4

Education ................................................................................................................................................ 5

Experience ............................................................................................................................................... 5

Director of Software Quality Assurance ................................................................................................. 6

Projects related ....................................................................................................................................... 7

Skills and Expertise .................................................................................................................................. 8

Performance Testing ............................................................................................................................... 9

Functional Testing ................................................................................................................................. 12

A Few Recommendations ..................................................................................................................... 14

Publications ........................................................................................................................................... 16

Contact Details ...................................................................................................................................... 16

Gallery ................................................................................................................................................... 16


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Objectives

Head of QA

Director of Software Quality Assurance

Software QA & Testing Services

Summary

Current role: Director of Software Quality Assurance

Expert level in Software QA and IT Software industry

Much Lower Prices

+10 years of relevant work experience

Software QA Consultancy

Automated Functional and Performance Software Testing

Focused on Performance Testing, Improvements, Tuning and Functional Test Automation

Real User Simulations, Functional and Performance

Can cover for free the features (to some extent) from expensive enterprise functional and performance testing tools and services

Up to date (2016) with good practices, best testing tools and knowledge

Improving QA Processes, QA Talent and Teams

Working from Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania, can do business trips

Collaboration on a contract basis as a remote contractor/small company

Much lower prices for the level of experience, competences and skills

Hourly rate or fixed price, no other taxes

Location not relevant in case of Software Testing Services

Security and confidentiality via NDA, VPN, Anti Virus, Firewall and others

Master's, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. ISTQB Certificate

Starting with 0 costs on licenses. Can cover for free the features (to some extent) from expensive enterprise performance and functional testing tools and services

Can provide or reference teams of Software QA, Testers, Automation Testers, Performance Testers,

Java Developers, .NET Developers and others.


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Software Testing Services Offered

Automated Testing

o Performance Testing o Performance Backend Testing o Performance Frontend Testing o Load Testing o Stress Testing o Volume Testing o Endurance (Soak) Testing o Scalability Testing o Break Testing o Failover Testing o Security Testing o Functional Testing o Web services Testing o Acceptance Testing o Mobile Testing o Visual Testing

Manual Testing

o Functional Testing o Visual Testing o Exploratory Testing o Smoke Testing o Sanity Testing o Usability Testing

Software QA Consultancy

People & Companies I have worked with/for


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I have +10 years in IT Software, with 10 years of informatics in high school, university bachelor and master's degrees in Computer Science/Programming/Informatics. Certificate: ISTQB

Besides technical hands-on, I have successfully managed and coordinated Performance Testing Teams, Software QA Teams and Software Teams which included designers, developers, testers and business analysts, held interviews, coached, trained testers, PDP and others.

Education

Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania

2008-2010 Master's Degree, Component Based Programming, Babes-Bolyai University

2005-2008 Bachelor's Degree, Faculty of Computer Science, Babes-Bolyai University

2001-2005 Informatics High-School "Tiberiu Popoviciu"

Experience

2011 - Present

Software QA and Testing Services at Mihai Serdean (www.mihai-serdean.com)

Clients:

YOPESO (www.yopeso.com) – Director of Software Quality Assurance

Hubbr (www.hubbr.io)- Performance Test Lead

Arnia Software (www.arnia.ro) - Performance Test Lead, Automation Test Lead

o Arnia's Clients

o Multiple Projects

Evozon Systems (www.evozon.com) - QA Test Manager

o Ixxus (www.ixxus.com)

o Business Monitor International (www.bmiresearch.com)

2009 - 2011

Performance Testing at Nokia (www.nokia.com)

Performance Tester, Performance Test Lead, Performance and Scalability

Clients/Employer:

Nokia (www.nokia.com)

o Ovi by Nokia / Nokia PC Suite (www.nokia.com)

o AT&T (www.att.com)

2006 - 2009

Functional Testing at SimpliQ (www.simpliq.com)

Tester, System Administrator, Developer

Clients/Employer:

SimpliQ

o SimpliQ's Clients

o Hosting Provider Companies, Datacenters

o Multiple Projects & Clients


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Director of Software Quality Assurance Implemented QA Strategy and processes

Continuous improvements

Strategic thinking and planning

Leading and directing the QA Department (~50 people)

Implemented Test Strategy

Provide expertise throughout the entire product development life cycle

Building QA teams, managing the function and direction of the QA teams

Personal Development Plan strategy and system for QA Department

Sub departments: Mobile Android/iOS Automation Testers, Web Automation Testers, Performance

Testers, Security Testers, Test Leads, Test Managers

Ensuring the success of the team’s manual and automation efforts

Define the optimal solution for each platform

Testing Tools

Test planning, test execution, quality assurance and issue tracking

Team Management and Motivation

Oversee the delivery and maintenance of automated tests and frameworks based on industry best

practices

QA Management experience across multiple projects, off-shore and in-house

Proven technical skills, both functional and non-functional, manual and automation, ideally in a

continuous delivery environment

Automated reporting. Improved reporting

Continuous integration

Continuous delivery

Communication with all the key stakeholders to ensure QA vision is understood and implemented

correctly

Motivate the team, recognize good talent and bring out the best out of each individual

Communication with all levels of management and peers within the organization

Client communication and meetings

Handle conflicts

Build, implement and direct quality assurance principles and maintain quality of delivery

Interviews, induction, training and performance evaluation

Provide leadership and technical expertise within Test Automation and Quality Assurance

Ensuring that the teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the QA strategy as

defined

Improving company's strategy in regards to QA and Project Management/Development Teams

Focus on continuous QA improvements including usage of appropriate testing tools, test techniques,

test automation

Monitor and improve all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and

identifying areas of improvement

Ensure the proper usage of available tools to gain the maximum benefit of the QA effort. This includes

testing tools for functional, performance, automation, etc.

Technical hands-on Automated Functional Testing on Desktop, Web, Mobile Android and iOS,

Performance Testing, Security Testing

Provide technical expertise in Test Automation, Testing Methodologies, Testing Processes, Tools and

Techniques across the teams.

Implemented SuperTester Bonus Program

Defined and Improved strategy on projects

QA Department Organizational Chart with Sub Departments and Leads

Specializing Testers


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Manage training and continuous learning of QA staff by means of courses, trainings, workshops,

conferences, meetups, certifications, tech talks etc.

Escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance and operate as a primary point

of contact for the QA teams

QA & Testing Services

Understanding client's requests in regards to QA and offering best solution

Up to date with latest technologies in Software QA and good practices, Software Testing tools etc

Pre-Sales Experience, Work with Clients, Business know-how

Projects related

setup, configured and built test automation frameworks and build deployments

optimized code, code reviews

strong client communication

configure, setup everything in functional and performance test automation

managed and coordinated the testing team, coached, mentored

performance testing, identified issues, made analysis and recommendations

performance recommendations and tuning are in production

performance tuning and improvements

performance testing - building performance tests in a very short period of time having to get

up to speed with months of development.

successfully implemented, tested, recommended improvements according to clients

requirements

test strategies including manual, automated functional, performance and security testing

best test automation code designs and patterns

setup a whole performance environment in order to performance test it

performance, load, stress, volume, endurance (soak) testing, failover, break testing etc

highly readable performance test reports and analysis

managed and coordinated the testers on multiple projects

held interviews

client communications, technical client meetings

JIRA management for testing side on each project

test strategies, test plans, test reports

investigations of best tools for functional and performance, automated and manual

assuring product quality is at highest levels before release and delivery

technical performance investigations, performance tuning, performance improvements,

delivering fully tested products to clients with performance enhancements/improvements

configured and using the top open-source frameworks, up to date functional test

automation

performance testing in a continuous integration setup

trainings, coaching, mentoring, helping testing team

standardized code, designs, how to work, tips and tricks for testing team

growing the testing team knowledge and efficiency


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able to conduct performance testing from 0 to 100% and make recommendations after

investigations and analysis

wrote performance tuning documents and configuration at the following levels: Load

Balancer, Apache, Varnish, Tomcat, JVM, Solr, MySQL, Oracle, Linux OS, Windows OS etc

all configurations, server setups (Windows, Linux), drivers, continuous integration

parallel running multiple configurations of automated tests

work done without help of developers or sys admin or others

built a functional test automation framework to be used as a platform for other test

automation projects, maven dependencies etc

built a performance test automation framework to be used as a platform for other

performance test scenarios

managed and coordinated QA teams

experience as a Project Manager, Test Manager, QA Manager with hands-on most technical

in overall quality and testing

able to drive the client communication regarding performance and quality of a system

able to identify issues up-front

research and up to date with test automation, functional and performance

Skills and Expertise

JMeter

jmeter-plugins

Selenium Webdriver

Simulating real user performance-wise

Real world scenarios

Java

Maven

Ant

Jenkins

Git Hub

Selenium Grid

Thucydides

Serenity

JBehave

Cucumber

Parallel running of automated tests

Continous integration

Monitoring

NewRelic

AppNeta

Nagios

Fiddler

Selenium RC

Performance

JIRA

Non-functional Testing

NFR

Load Testing

Software Quality Assurance

SoapUI

Agile

Test Cases

Shell Scripting

Web Services

SQL

Solaris

Programming

System Testing

Test Management

Test Planning

Software Development

NetworkAdministration

Team Leadership

Test Strategy

All Windows Operating Systems User and Server

Performance Monitoring

Red-Hat

Ubuntu

VB.NET

Requirements Analysis

Tomcat

Operating Systems

Agile Testing

Eclipse

Test Tools

Scrum

Bug Tracking

Python

Load Runner

Quality Center

Bugzilla

JUnit

Surefire

SVN

Weblogic

Scripting

Linux

ISTQB

Test Automation

Test Reports

Recommendations

Trainings

Coaching

Mentoring

Management

Python


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Performance Testing

Offering the best solution for your software product’s quality, performance wise. Below are some of

the main reasons.

Summary:

Using the best performance tool after market research & investigations in 2016. Free Costs

Can cover other known performance testing tools features and other services for free

Have an experienced performance tester with more than 10 years, who worked on large

enterprise projects doing performance testing, tuning and improvements.

Reduced costs? No. There are no costs. All free.

Only cost is the hourly rate or fixed price contract agreed before.

Unlimited virtual/concurrent users and test execution time. free

Real browsers

Real user simulations, real scenarios

Code & scripting:

o nothing hardcoded or duplicate

o data sets

o randomized data

o easily configurable

o highly maintainable

o expert level

Free Server and App Monitoring

Multiple locations. Cluster. Grid. Cloud

Performance Test Scenarios: performance, load, stress, volume, endurance etc

Both Front-end and Back-end performance testing

Can use Network Emulators for web and mobile performance testing.

Test Results and Test Reports with graphics, screenshots, highly detailed

Wide range of graphics and performance metrics

Continuous integration. Schedule test runs. Receive results via email.

Performance Improvements, Tuning and Recommendations

Free maintenance and consultancy

Analysis

Performance Tuning

Performance Testing

System Administration

Testing

Others to be added...

C#

JetProfiler

Alfresco

CMS

Solr

Python + Django

Zed Attack

Qualys Guard

MySQL

MSSQL

Oracle


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Details:

I have been working with JMeter, jmeter-plugins and JMeter with Selenium Webdriver integration for about 6 years. Compared to top performance testing tools with expensive licenses, I can generate similar features to some extent by using open-source tools. All projects were large enterprise systems in clusters, grid, cloud. I have strong/expert experience in performance testing, performance tuning and improvements with multiple performance improvement results in all projects that I worked on. Other strong plus is that I have Sys Admin, Network Admin, Developer and Tester experience. In all performance testing projects above I have increased the overall performance of the application and environments, not just done the performance, load, stress, migration, endurance, capacity, volume, 'real world' testing and test reports. Distributed running of performance tests. Everything in Continuous integration and delivery. On a daily basis, Test Reports or Alerts via Email with summary.

Best performance testing tool

My recent investigations, discussions and research on performance testing tools show that

JMeter would be the best tool if used properly. The performance testing tools and services

analyzed were:

o Free: JMeter, Gatling, Tsung, Grinder, Locust...

o Not free: BlazeMeter, JarLoad, Load Runner, WebLoad, NeoLoad, Soasta...

Can cover features for free

Having extensive knowledge in JMeter and jmeter-plugins I could not find any major

features for the other tools and services mentioned above that cannot be done with JMeter

and related. This is besides the fact that JMeter is 0 cost, as it is free open-source and the

services and tools mentioned above have, in my opinion, expensive licenses, limited by test

execution times and virtual users. Another strong plus would be that JMeter is highly

extensible (Java code) and can be customized according to project needs.

Unlimited

virtual and concurrent users

test execution time

Real browsers, real user simulations, real scenarios.

Almost all performance testing tools are for backend performance testing, not using real

browsers. This can be achieved with JMeter and Selenium Webdrivder and I can test

performance on both client-side (browser, javascript execution, page rendering) and server-

side.

Code, scripting and recording

Even with expensive performance testing services and tools, someone needs to implement

the performance tests and scenarios, write scripts and code, in some cases, learn new

coding and scripting languages. Although they have the recording feature, I do not rely on

them for multiple reasons. JMeter has also a recorder but I use it rarely. With any tool you


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cannot record and then play a performance test scenario. In most cases it won't work the

second time, plus it needs to be randomized and properly thought. Nothing is hardcoded or

duplicate. Parameters and configurations options can be setup from properties files.

Server and App Monitoring

When doing performance testing and other related to non-functional testing and

performance, I setup multiple performance monitoring tools on server and

application/transaction levels, on client and server side. Used in performance analysis, test

reports and improvements. Free tools.

Multiple locations. Cluster. Grid. Cloud

Performance testing can be done in a secure environment having all servers in one location

and virtual private network or in multiple locations. Servers can be setup in multiple

locations and I can do distributed performance testing on secure environments, firewall, anti

viruses, vpn etc.

Performance Test Scenarios

Test scenarios are properly thought, having multiple data sets, randomized data, simulating

the real user on the real application. Can develop scenarios for performance, load, stress,

volume, endurance (soak), break, failover etc testing. Can do frontend and backend

performance testing using real browsers. Everything in a test scenario can be adjusted from

the number of concurrent users to ram-up periods, number of iterations, number of

concurrent actions, overall throughput etc.

Network

Can use network emulators for web and mobile performance testing.

Test Results and Test Reports

Can see results and comparisons in real time. I generate Performance test reports in a pdf

format with graphics, screenshots and highly detailed explanations, performance analysis,

recommendations, improvements and tuning. Also can do integration with Jenkins and have

graphics and results per build as well as comparisons. Results via email on a daily basis.

Wide range of graphics and performance metrics.

Maintenance and consultancy

After project ends, I offer free maintenance and consultancy depending on changes.

No other costs

There are no other costs.

The only cost is the hourly rate or fixed price contract agreed before.


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Examples of performance test strategies, analysis, results, reports graphics, improvements and

tuning in the free demo.

Functional Testing

Tools and services which were compared:

Free: Selenium 2 Webdriver, SikuliX, SoapUI, Watir, Appium, FitNesse

Not Free: Ranorex, Telerik Test Studio, Test Complete, QTP, TestRail, Applitools, SauceLabs,

BrowserStack...

Companies that offer testing services

Offering the best solution for your software products quality, automated functional wise. Below are

some of the main reasons.

I have been working with Selenium (first Selenium 1 RC and then Selenium 2 Webdriver) for 5 years on multiple projects, using good practices and design, considered best approach for implementing automated tests, highly re-usable code and easy to maintain. Test Reports include screenshots at each step, graphics, easy to identify bugs or to maintain and update tests. Parallel running including multiple configurations. Everything in Continuous integration and delivery. On a daily basis, Test Reports or Alerts via Email with summary.

Free solution. Can cover enterprise tools features

Using the best open-source functional automated tool, in my opinion, after I did a market

research & investigations in 2016. Free Costs

Can cover for free the services or features (to some extent) offered by mentioned tools

Have an experienced functional automated tester, who worked on many test automation

frameworks for different software products/projects, from the beginning of Selenium 1 RC

and then Selenium 2 Webdriver with other integrated tools.

Parallel and distributed automated functional testing on web and mobile

Run the test suites on multiple operating systems and browsers versions on multiple servers

Can easily scale, highly reliable and maintainable. Secure via VPN, Firewalls, Anti viruses etc

Parallel running of automated tests with multiple configurations on multiple servers,

multiple operating systems, multiple browsers and browser versions

Automated cross browser testing, web and mobile.

Server configurations and deployments

Functional test automation on Web, Mobile, Windows Desktop and Linux.

Mobile automated testing (Web and Native)

Windows, Linux and Mac


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Automatic reporting and integration with collaboration tools

Continuous integration. Scheduled jobs. Reporting via email with test results

Direct integration with bug tracking tools like JIRA

Instant web access to test reports, bugs with screenshots and tickets/issues opened

Awesome test reports with screenshots and graphics

Test Reports contain screenshots at each stop so you can visualize what the test did and how

the UI looks.

Tests reports are highly readable by anyone in the company

Test reports include graphics and screenshots at each step

Rapidly reporting bugs on a daily basis

Automated visual testing

This can also be automated to have automated visual testing and compare pages and

elements on the page. For free

Automated Mobile Testing

Serenity - Appium integration, Selenium Webdriver AndroidDriver, ios-driver, IPhoneDriver.

Real browsers

Real browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera etc)

Real user simulations, real scenarios. User perspective. User acceptance testing

Code design. Design & patterns. Best approach

Nothing hardcoded or duplicate

Data sets, multiple test execution changing only the test input data on the fly

Randomized data

Easily configurable. Highly maintainable

Expert level

Business logic is separated from the presentation

Each web app page has its own page in the test automation framework

A change in the web app means a single change in the test automation framework

Best designs, patterns and approach in functional test automation

Maintenance and consultancy

After project ends, I offer free maintenance and consultancy depending on changes.

No other costs

There are no other costs.

The only cost is the hourly rate or fixed price contract agreed before.


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Examples of functional automated test code, scripts, frameworks, test results and reports with screenshots at each step and graphics in the free demo.

A Few Recommendations

"Mihai is an expert in QA Automation. Despite huge complexity of our web application, Mihai

managed to create end-to-end fully automated regression testing that run nightly and provide nice

aggregated human readable reports every morning. Automated test coverage allowed us to perform

"brave" architecture refactoring activities and became the main line of defense against regression.

I'm sure his expertise and effort will be valuable to any company with a web-product out there."

— Ivan Akcheurov, Technical Team Lead, Global Orange

"On several projects I've had the privilege to work with Mihai. I consider him to be a very professional

QA engineer. He was a very appreciated QA member of the teams I've worked on the last few years.

Very independent and he has a 'get the job done' mentality. A pleasure to work with!"

— Wolter Comello, Scrum Master / Business Analyst, Global Orange

"It was great working with Mihai on the project we did together, I would not hesitate to recommend

him for other projects. Mihai is very experienced and result-oriented. He also was able to coach other

junior test professionals that were able to grow in their skills. Hopefully we'll get a change to do

another project in the near future"

— Eric Duivenvoorden, Senior Project Manager, Global Orange

"Mihai was accountable performance test lead in Ovi sync - he provided the test results as agreed in

a challenging multi site working environment."

— Ikonen Ilmo, Program manager, Nokia

"I worked with Mihai at Nokia in the same team for about one year. He's a good team player and a

talented automation engineer. I can also say he's enthusiastic and proactive."

— Stefan Rusu, Senior software engineer, Nokia

"Mihai is a very passionate software professional, performance analyst and performance tester. I had

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many times he exceeded my expectations. I highly recommend Mihai and I wish to have the chance

to work with him again in the future."

— Octav Socaciu, Project Manager, Nokia

"Mihai showed great technical capabilities and excellent leadership skills while working as a

performance test lead at Nokia."

— Charles Gallant, Program Manager, Nokia

"Mihai is one of my favorite people to work with at Nokia. He is very knowledgeable about the AAB

and Ovi applications/process and we would often work together to figure out and debug difficult

problems. I would highly recommend his professionalism, technical ability, and overall work ethic."

— Ram Yellamraju, Systems Engineer, Nokia

"Mihai showed willingness and determination to do his best by learning new technologies, new

things needed to fulfill his project tasks, and project ownership. He proved to be a very reliable, hard

working and honest person. His behavior illustrates the level of commitment he is capable of making

to worthwhile goals. When combined with his positive attitude and the care that he shows as a

professional, I am certain that Mihai will be a valued and respected employee."

— Angela Pop, Sr. Engineering Manager, Nokia

"Mihai is one of the most hardworking and passionate people I had the pleasure of working with. His

experience and passion for the industry recommend him for any position he might apply for."

— Lorand R. Minyo, Executive Vice President, SimpliQ

"Mihai is focused and gets things done in time. I acknowledge him as a results oriented professional.

He is a courageous, self-driven technology explorer engaged in a continuous learning process. He

puts his best efforts into the unknowns of technology (lack of documentation and tools/environment

experience) and figures it out alone. He came up with new technology/tools/proposals and other

improvement ideas that in the end impacted the overall performance of the team. I recommend

Mihai as a reliable and innovative asset for any team."

— Andrei Marcut, Outsourcing Consultant, Information Technology and Services

Others to be added...


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Publications

Performance... what now?! in Today Software Magazine. Authors: Mihai Serdean

Posts and articles related to non-functional (mostly performance related) and functional

automated testing mainly on

o Linkedin

o Linkedin Pulse

o Website blog

Contact Details

Name: Mihai Serdean

Born: 1986 Age: 30

Work availability: looking for new clients/work

Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Email: [email protected]

Skype: mihai.v.serdean

Mobile: +40 754 052 267

Website: http://mihai-serdean.com

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