How do you engage with a team?

On a B2B contract through my own company, SC Trend Waves SRL. I work remotely from Romania, embedded in your squad, your tools and your ceremonies, with teams across Europe.

What size of team do you work with?

Both ends. I have worked in product teams of four to six people and as Test Practice Manager on programmes of forty or more, on two-week sprints and on monthly releases, in Scrum, Kanban and SAFe.

Do you write automated tests?

Yes, as scaffolding around functional work. I build API checks in Bruno or Postman and performance sanity checks in k6, and I use AI assistants to draft them faster. What I am hired for is the judgement on user journeys, acceptance and release risk that automation cannot supply.

Which platforms and domains have you tested?

Native iOS and Android apps, wearables (Garmin and Apple Watch), web and back-office systems, REST APIs, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Adobe Experience Manager and Sitecore. Domains include banking, digital experience for global brands, facilities management, smart-city parking, betting and mobile games.

What do you leave behind when the contract ends?

The aim is a practice the team can run without me: a written test strategy, test-case guidelines, dashboards that show risk, a defect backlog people trust, a handed-over QA repository where there is one, and people who have been mentored to make the calls themselves.

Can you lead as well as test?

Yes. As Test Practice Manager I rebuilt a test strategy from scratch, interviewed and mentored QA engineers, introduced a Quality Maturity Matrix for leadership and covered for Product Owners and Scrum Masters when delivery needed continuity.

Functional QA consulting services (B2B, remote EU)

Teams that need to know if the product still serves the user

Product validation

Validation aimed at journeys and business outcomes — not coverage percentages.

Critical user-path exercises
Acceptance criteria that stakeholders recognise
Friction raised as stories or clear defects
Release calls backed by evidence Product can read

Programmes where Product, Engineering, and business must align

Stakeholder engagement & UAT

Shared “done”, facilitated UAT, and a ship/wait decision — not a late checklist.

Cross-functional alignment rituals that stay short
UAT packs with severity and owners
Deferred risk made explicit
Handover the next release can reuse

Teams drowning in backlog noise or invisible quality

Test practice & Quality Maturity

Strategy, guidelines, hygiene, and maturity views leadership asked for — without slowing delivery.

Strategy rebuild and case guidelines
Defect backlog clean-up
Quality Maturity Matrix / leadership dashboards
Mentoring and interviewing support

Products spanning web, native, and wearables

Mobile, wearable & cross-surface journeys

Real-device friction found early; AI only for technical scaffolding underneath.

iOS/Android and wearable integration checks
API and content edges that break journeys
Release readiness that states what was really verified

How an engagement usually unfolds.

Quiet B2B. Clear ownership. Evidence you can take into a release call — without turning QA into another status factory.

01
Listen & map risk
Users, release pressure, and where evidence is weak. We agree what “done” means before we touch tools.
02
Embed & make friction visible
Sit with Product and Engineering. Journeys, UAT, defect hygiene — so ship/wait is a shared call, not a late surprise.
03
Leave the practice stronger
Guidelines, dashboards, and mentoring so the team keeps honest evidence after the contract ends.

B2B via SC Trend Waves SRL · Freelancer / remote EU
Product validation + stakeholder engagement first
Embedded in squads or as Test Practice Manager
AI for security / performance / automation scaffolding only

Fourteen years, nine engagements.

As employee, freelance, seconded consultant and B2B. The short version is below; the detail of each role is on the home page.

DefiniaQuality Assurance Consultant · Digital product consultancy2026 — present
SodexoFunctional QA Engineer & Test Practice Manager · Global facilities & delivery platforms2022 — 2026
PlaytikaQA Engineer · Mobile games2022
CegekaAgile Tester · Smart cities & multi-tenant platforms2019 — 2022
IT Teams · Priority SoftwareQA Engineer · ERP / enterprise UI2020 — 2021
NetcentricQA Engineer · Digital experience · banking & industrial2016 — 2019
ALTEN RomaniaQuality Assurance Consultant · Banking & BPM2015 — 2016
Code Factory · OpenBet / LadbrokesTest Analyst · Betting & gaming platforms2014 — 2015
Bandai Namco Games RomaniaQA Tester · Mobile games2012 — 2014

Read what I delivered in each role

Organizations helped

Clients and delivery partners behind those engagements — Cegeka, Netcentric, Odeen Software, and more.

Definia
OneBeyond
Worldline
Sodexo
Odeen Software
Oxford Corp
Aon
Cognizant
MBG Cognizant
Playtika
Q-Park
Cegeka
Priority Software
IT Teams
UBS
Siemens
Netcentric
ING
Raiffeisen
ALTEN
OpenBet
Ladbrokes
CodeFactory
Bandai Namco
GAlliance

Tools I use — never the mission.

Stacks change by programme. What stays fixed: user journeys and the business release call. Everything below is how I move faster — not what I sell.

Delivery & evidence

JIRA
Azure DevOps
Confluence
TestRail
HP ALM

Mobile & devices

Physical iOS / Android
BrowserStack
Wearable companions
Charles Proxy

Platforms & data

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365)
Adobe Experience Manager
Azure Cosmos DB · SQL
Sitecore · Appian

API & performance scaffolding

Bruno / Postman
k6
App Insights
REST collections

AI (draft only — human oracle)

Cursor
ChatGPT
Log / scenario drafts
Boilerplate acceleration

Common questions.

How do you engage with a team?: On a B2B contract through my own company, SC Trend Waves SRL. I work remotely from Romania, embedded in your squad, your tools and your ceremonies, with teams across Europe.
What size of team do you work with?: Both ends. I have worked in product teams of four to six people and as Test Practice Manager on programmes of forty or more, on two-week sprints and on monthly releases, in Scrum, Kanban and SAFe.
Do you write automated tests?: Yes, as scaffolding around functional work. I build API checks in Bruno or Postman and performance sanity checks in k6, and I use AI assistants to draft them faster. What I am hired for is the judgement on user journeys, acceptance and release risk that automation cannot supply.
Which platforms and domains have you tested?: Native iOS and Android apps, wearables (Garmin and Apple Watch), web and back-office systems, REST APIs, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Adobe Experience Manager and Sitecore. Domains include banking, digital experience for global brands, facilities management, smart-city parking, betting and mobile games.
What do you leave behind when the contract ends?: The aim is a practice the team can run without me: a written test strategy, test-case guidelines, dashboards that show risk, a defect backlog people trust, a handed-over QA repository where there is one, and people who have been mentored to make the calls themselves.
Can you lead as well as test?: Yes. As Test Practice Manager I rebuilt a test strategy from scratch, interviewed and mentored QA engineers, introduced a Quality Maturity Matrix for leadership and covered for Product Owners and Scrum Masters when delivery needed continuity.

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