Eugeniu Solonari
Senior Automation Engineer
Profile
Details
Automation test specialist with strong Agile & Scrum development
experience. Extensive expertise of delivering automation solution for
multiple platforms (.Net, JavaScript and Java Applications), across
a variety of industries including Banking, International Commerce,
Mining, and People Logistics.
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Employment History
Nationality
Moldovan
Links
Linkedin
Automation Test Team Lead at Endava, Chisinau, Moldova
August 2024 — Present
• Mentoring a team of 8 automation testers to support 4 agile teams
• Solving the automation stability problems and enhance the test
coverage
• Implementing performance testing in service component level
• Improve test automation frameworks to enable non-technical
testers to utilize frameworks
Automation Technical Lead at Rio Tinto (Contractor), Brisbane,
Australia
January 2023 — August 2024
• Led the migration of a C# automation framework to Playwright
using JavaScript, enhancing test execution speed and browser
compatibility.
• Led automation teams across multiple projects, focusing on
building and improving test automation frameworks in mining
industry.
• My goal was to foster a culture of shift-left testing and drive
standardization and reusability across all automation efforts.
• I ensured that testing became an integral part of the development
lifecycle by embedding automated tests early in the development
process, promoting continuous feedback, and aligning testing
strategies with business goals
• Set up the regression & acceptance automation test process
based on each CI build, which gives development & PM team an
immediate output of the quality and gains all stakeholders’ great
feedback
Technologies used:
• JavaScript, TypeScript, Playwright
• BDD Specflow, Selenium, Wiremock, Microservice
• .Net/C#, React, SQL, Azure Storage including Cosmos DB, NoSQL
table and queue
• Azure DevOps, Git, Postman,
Skills
Test Management
Test Automation
Languages
English
Romanian
Test Team Lead at Endava Autralia, Brisbane, Australia
January 2022 — January 2023
• Acting as automation test leader role and coaching a team of
automation testers to provide extensive testing coverage from API
Integration to UI End to End tests
• Creating the automation testing framework from scratch to
support API service and UI testing
• Communicating with multiple teams to design and confirm the API
service contract and expectation
• Mentoring multiple squads for automation testing practices
including shift left testing
• Creating Test Plan and Test Strategy documentation
• Leading the interview sessions with new QA candidates
• Training and supporting external level 3 ticketing team
• Contribute to the testing discipline skill up process
Senior Automation Engineer at Endava, Chisinau, Moldova
January 2021 — January 2022
• Used Pact for service-level contract testing.
• Implemented Spring Cloud Contract to enhance microservices
communication reliability.
• Involved in a program dealing with money transfers innovative
solutions for an international company
• Performed REST API test automation on different levels
• Implemented REST API component performance testing solution
from scratch
• Defined REST API e2e performance test strategy
• Implemented REST API e2e performance testing solution from
scratch
• Managed a team of QA Automation engineers
• Involved in test automation solution refactoring (both scope
definition and implementation)
• Led AI/ML community as part of Testing Discipline at Endava
Moldova
Technologies used:
• Selenium, Wiremock, Microservice, Java, SQL, Azure Storage,
Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps, Jira, Git, Postman, Rest Assured
Automation Engineer at Endava, Chisinau, Moldova
January 2019 — January 2021
• Developed API/REST frameworks using JAVA, Junit, Selenium,
Cucumber
• CICD integration using Jenkins
• Mock services using WireMock
• Prepared test env API testing
• Code Review
• Design Test Scenarios
• Create test reports
• Regression & SIT testing
Junior Automation Engineer at Endava, Chisinau, Moldova
July 2018 — December 2018
Intern in Software Testing at Endava, Chisinau, Moldova
March 2018 — June 2018
Education
Bachelor's degree | Computer Science, Technical University of
Moldova, Chisinau, Moldova
September 2016 — July 2021
Licenses & Certifications
IELTS C1
February 2022 — Present
ISTQB - Certified Tester Foundation Level
February 2020 — Present
PTE, Brisbane
February 2024 — February 2026