Alexadru ​​​​​Gandu

Senior Product & Project Manager - Crowdbotics

March 2019 - March 2020
• With a business model of modular development, I have experience in building web and mobile apps fast using existing components/libraries for React Native, Node.js and Django.
 Ability to understand both customer and their business needs and translate them into requirements based on the budget, timeline and target audience. 
• Maintain a prioritized roadmap and timeline for product features, user stories, test plan, releases and budgets.
• Hire developers/designers or collaborate with existing team members, based on the project requirements, technology and timeline. 
• Ability to adapt to the team environment and collaborate well with developers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, and operations.
• Ensure requirements are fully understood and that implementation plans match expectations.
• Coordonate the development process and analyze and report on product development. performance with JIRA throughout the product life cycle.

• Handle the AppleConnect and GoogleConsole accounts from beta testing to production releases. 

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Project Manager & Scrum Master - Medyear

May 2018 - March 2019

• Create the project road map and milestones based on client's requirements

• Leading Sprint planning meetings and estimations
• Coordinating and managing tasks for the back-end and front-end development teams 

• Overview the work board and keep track of tasks priorities, assignments and status 

• Recognizing and understanding requirements and then optimizing project resources to best meet these needs
• Ensure the quality of each released version of the app by running a set of regression tests 

 

 

Senior QA Engineer - Iris by Lowe's
December 2016 - January 2019

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• Create and execute a set of repeatable test cases for mobile and web applications, using TestRail and other QA tools.
• Write technical documentation for new features.
• Work closely with the development team to test features that are actively in development before they are released publicly.
• Report and test issues found using Jira, following the internal workflow. 

• Monitor and test various third party tools to ensure that correct functionality is maintained
• Create confluence and matrix pages detailing the functionality of devices and tools

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Mobile Game Producer -  IdeaStudios & Transylgamia

​June 2015 - Sept 2016

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• Pre-production: creating GDDs and wireframes based on targeted audience and client requirements

• Leading estimations and project scope definition

• Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing and evolving QA process, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
• Planning and creating roadmap for games and mobile apps
• Managing projects using Scrum methodology and coordinating teams us to 10 members
• Leading daily meetings with team members and sprint reviews with partners and clients

• Also managing a project with the monetization based on ads:
• Working with ad providing platforms and mediation tools
• Producing small mobile games using an Unity 3D car engine
• Creating mobile store content and publishing games on weekly bases
• Tracking and analyzing metrics to improve retention and monetization

 

Junior Product Owner - Greppy Systems

​June 2013 - June 2015

 

• Handling client relations and proposing UX and design solutions to improve the products
• Setup, participated and lead daily/weekly project team/client conference calls
• Developed functional requirements documentation for digital projects to ensure final solutions mapped to identified business needs
• Managed teams working Agile Scrum in weekly iterations
• Handled multiple projects such as web sites, mobile games and apps and reached deadlines and milestones
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices

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QA Engineer - Greppy Systems

​Sept 2012 - June 2013

 

• Executed manual smoke, acceptance, functional, regression, system, integration, usability and exploratory tests

• Responsible for creation, design and execution of test strategies, including writing test plans, test cases and test scenarios
• Performed compatibility testing (cross Windows/ Mac and Android/ iOS platforms, cross browsers, cross mobile devices - phones, tablets, iPads etc) to ensure the functionality of the products
• Ran daily regression tests and documented issues using test tools like Jira, Test Manager, Trello 
• Test Mobile app`s behavior under various interruptions: battery strength (full/medium/low), incoming calls, SMS, video calls 
• Actively participate in regular QA team meetings to discuss SQA testing process and suggest improvements to the application design and features