ANDREI DOBROV
Chișinău
Summary
QA engineer with over 7 years of experience in testing for fintech banking and SaaS platforms. Proficient in manual and automation testing, with a proven ability to build Playwright/TypeScript end-to-end frameworks and develop test-data tooling. Expertise in establishing QA standards while balancing exploratory testing with scalable automation to enhance release speed and product quality.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)
Block, Inc. (Square)
Chișinău
05.2022 - 02.2026
- Planned and executed functional, regression, exploratory and UX testing for multi-location, multi-currency franchise platform; designed 200+ test cases in JIRA/Xray/Linear for SSO, store imports, reporting and permissions
- Built Playwright + TypeScript E2E automation framework from scratch; integrated 15+ services (auth, catalog, locations, orders, gift cards, images, notifications); automated core flows reducing manual regression by ~70%
- Developed "Data Forge", Node.js/TypeScript test-data platform for catalog, order, customer and location generation with environment management, parallel processing and interactive UI; reduced setup time by ~80%
- Collaborated with engineering and product teams to triage defects, refine requirements and improve product testability
Tester (Banking & Payments)
Endava
Chișinău
03.2019 - 05.2022
- Tested web banking applications (internet banking, payments, transfers); designed and executed manual functional, regression and integration tests across browsers and devices
- Tested physical mPOS terminals (contact/contactless), validating transaction flows and error handling
- Participated in planning and estimation of testing for new projects; logged and tracked defects in JIRA/YouTrack
Test Engineer (FinTech)
IT FinTech Solutions
Chișinău
12.2017 - 03.2019
- Tested internal fintech products: trading platform CRM (MetaTrader 4/5), suspicious trade alerting system (email/SMS/phone), Copy Trade tool, and Kryo cryptocurrency API
- Created and executed manual test cases for UI, APIs and background jobs; collaborated with developers on defect verification
Education
Unfinished Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science
UTM
Chișinău01.2023
Bachelor's degree - Business Administration and Management
Slavonic University
Chisinau01.2023
Bachelor's Degree - Informatics
CEITI
Chișinău05.2018
Skills
- Manual and regression testing
- Exploratory and UX testing
- End-to-end automation
- API and REST testing
- MongoDB database management
- Test management tools
- Jira and Xray proficiency
- Linear project tracking
- TypeScript programming
- Playwright
- Nodejs development
Open To
Remote / EU-Friendly Hybrid
Languages
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Romanian
Proficient (C2)
C2
Russian
Native
Native
Certification
ISTQB Certified Tester, Agile Extension.
Affiliations
3D printing.
Timeline
QA Engineer (Manual & Automation)
Block, Inc. (Square)
05.2022 - 02.2026
Tester (Banking & Payments)
Endava
03.2019 - 05.2022
Test Engineer (FinTech)
IT FinTech Solutions
12.2017 - 03.2019
Unfinished Bachelor's Degree - Computer Science
UTM
Bachelor's degree - Business Administration and Management
Slavonic University
Bachelor's Degree - Informatics
CEITI