Florin Ursu

Vice President of Platform Quality and Stability

Xsolla

Aug 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)

Senior Manager Software Quality Assurance Program Level

IG Wealth Management

Sep 2019 - Jul 2025 (5 years 11 months)

Projects: Series U Transformation, Series U Enhancements Stonebranch Transition Tax 2020 - TFSA Network Segmentation Mortgage Project IGM Financial Inc. (TSX: IGM) is one of Canada's leading diversified wealth and asset management companies. The company's network of advisors provides a broad range of financial and investment planning services. • Company wide expert in JIRA and Zephyr administration and specialized high quality dashboards, highly regarded by various stakeholders of various levels, from individual contributors to executives. • Designed and implemented interactive dashboards in JIRA using JQL to visualize key QA metrics, including defect trends, test coverage, and cycle times. Highly regarded was a dashboard providing vi

Director of Quality Assurance

Pong Game Studios

May 2016 - Aug 2019 (3 years 4 months)

Pong Studios creates mobile, Internet, and social initiatives, complementing traditional games and business systems. Pong Studios gaming platform develops products that give companies the ability to offer gaming with mobile and online games. • Inherited a challenged QA department of 10 people and transformed it into a high-efficiency team, by implementing structure, process, adopting new tools and instilling a pro-active attitude while providing coaching and empowering team members. • Introduced Security Testing as a core focus and hands on created automation Python scripts mainly in Cybersecurity libraries (i.e. python-nmap) • Implemented a process reliant on Mindmaps for brainstorming initial test cases and communication, followed by a tr

User Acceptance Testing Manager

RBC

Sep 2015 - May 2016 (9 months)

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is Canada's largest bank and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. Distributed Image Capture and Exchange (DICE) Program Cheque usage remains widespread in Canada with more than one billion cheques issued in 2011. Each business day in Canada, more than five million cheques are transported from one financial institution to another. In 2012, the CPA (Canada Payments Association) enacted rules to permit financial institutions (FIs) to proceed with Image Capture. In 2013, the CPA introduced industry standards and additional image rule amendments to further support Canadian FIs with the exchange of electronic images of cheques rather than paper. DICE Project RBC addresses conversion f

Senior Software Quality Assurance Manager

DMEautomotive

Mar 2014 - Aug 2015 (1 year 6 months)

• Created the QA Department from scratch, taking it from 1 tester to 9 QA Analysts specialized to have appropriate coverage for Web Testing, Selenium Automation, Mobile Testing, SQL Testing for Data Warehouse team, SQL Testing for List team • Introduced Security Testing as a core focus and hands on created automation Python scripts mainly in Cybersecurity libraries (i.e. python-nmap) • Successfully introduced the use of internships from local universities to the company, subsequently being implemented across the company • Successfully implemented a thorough SQA Process to help the company improve the Quality Parameters. Prior to my arrival, there was no formal process no clear accountability for what was tested • Successfully implemented a

QA Manager

QuickPlay Media

Nov 2012 - Mar 2014 (1 year 5 months)

QuickPlay is the only end-to-end managed services provider that handles the most resource-intensive parts of offering premium video and live TV to multiple screens. QP makes multiscreen video delivery easy by managing all of the hard things - from content ingestion through consumption. This allows companies to go to market faster while reducing costs and in-house burden. • Managed project for 5 different platforms, plus back end: iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows 8, Web • Managed up to 40 team members between the in-house and outsourced testers. Hired and managed a local team of 9 Testing professionals, spread between TQA (technical QA) and FQA (functional QA) while also coordinating outsourced teams on different continents: Intellicore (Fr

Test Manager

Shaw Communications

Feb 2012 - Nov 2012 (10 months)

Projects: CORE: replacement of legacy system that manages about 80% of the work done in Shaw, from CSR platform to provisioning, scheduling, billing, product catalogue, SOX compliance, etc, for all three main products: cable, home phone and internet. • Successfully lead a team by earning trust and respect from team members based on technical expertise, and by recognizing individual and team achievements as well as constantly consulting senior member of the team in technical situations they are experts on, thus reinforcing their value to the team and acknowledging their skill; • Managed a team of (up to) 18 engineers both in QA and Development departments (12 local); • Provided coaching and mentorship to team members in areas of communicatio

Quality Assurance Manager

Zynga Toronto Zynga acquired Five Mobile

Jul 2011 - Jan 2012 (7 months)

Leading a team of 10 QA Analysts Zynga Toronto creates mobile social games Zynga Acquires Toronto-Based Five Mobile Team, Creates Toronto Mobile Studio Zynga is the #1 social gaming company on the web. Zynga was founded specifically to add a social element to casual online games because we love games, and we love them most when we're playing with friends! Social games provide a more fun, competitive and contagious experience. Zynga delivers on the promise of social networks, making it easy to connect with old friends and make new ones (no download required!). Zynga has something for everyone: casino games, word games, board games, role playing games and party games which can be found on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, and Hi5.

QA Manager

Five Mobile Inc

Jan 2011 - Jul 2011 (7 months)

Projects: Mobile applications developed for 3rd party Companies (Score, Rogers, Globe and Mail, Cineplex, etc.) Managed a team of 10 QA Engineers in efforts to test multiple applications at same time (5 concurrent projects) on a variety of mobile devices and operating systems. Applications were developed for: iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, PlayBook; Introduced new QA specific tools in the company, such as TestLink for test case and test plan management; Interviewed and hired personnel and co-op students (U. of Waterloo); Coordinated resources in order to successfully manage simultaneous projects; Coordinated day to day activities for the QA Team, cross project and within certain projects when needed; Provided guidance and mentorship to

Quality Assurance Manager

Yesmail

Sep 2007 - Sep 2010 (3 years 1 month)

Quality Assurance Manager Project: Professional Email Marketing Services - web application developed in Java with MySQL and MS SQL as; Managed a team of (up to) 18 engineers both in QA and Development departments; * Coordinated engineering iterations (2 weeks iterations) from qa/dev perspective; * Effectively managed and co-ordinated and worked with teams in 4 different time zones; * Developed and implemented testing strategies for existing and new projects that are were either complete solutions or exposed APIs for third parties; * Interviewed and hired QA analysts and Development Engineers both in Oakville office or in remote outsourcing teams (Xiamen - China); * Provided training for new hires; * Provided leadership in all QA related iss

Quality Assurance Manager - Acting Engineering Manager

Yesmail

Sep 2007 - Sep 2010 (3 years 1 month)

• Successfully lead a team by earning trust and respect from team members based on technical expertise, and by recognizing individual and team achievements as well as constantly consulting senior member of the team in technical situations they are experts on, thus reinforcing their value to the team and acknowledging their skill; • Managed a team of (up to) 18 engineers both in QA and Development departments (12 local); • Provided leadership in all QA related issues and championed the quality of the product within the organization, greatly improving customer satisfaction due to the increased generated stability and usability of the application;

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst, QA Operations Coordinator

Eloqua

Jun 2006 - Sep 2007 (1 year 4 months)

Project: Automation Lead Generation Application for marketing- web application developed in Visual Basic .NET with SQL Server as; Tested functionality in areas across application. Responsible for; partial project management) and Security areas; * Initially help to define the goals and objectives for the QA Operations Coordinator role; * Being a service person to the QA manager to help maximize performance of QA team members; * Met with QA or Operations departments in other companies to share best practices. * Met with members of the Eloqua Operations Group on a regular basis to discuss methodologies, toolkits and approaches to operations in general.; * Defined and tracked metrics (beyond the standard metrics already being measured); * Defi

Contractor - Quality Assurance Analyst

Context

Jan 2006 - May 2006 (5 months)

Project: Application intended to manage financial transactions, developed in Visual Basic * Providing technical leadership for day to day operations; * Involved in test plan preparation; * Designing and developing test cases using Black Box testing methodologies; * Reviewing program specifications and identify the business processes that will be impacted; * Executing test scripts by entering test cases on-line, checking reports and running queries; * Creating documentation and train users on the system changes; * Monitoring the changes in the production environment upon implementation.

Quality Assurance Analyst

Sprint

Aug 2005 - Nov 2005 (4 months)

Project: Rebranding - after Rogers acquired Sprint, to comply with Legal requirements. * Tested online changes in nine WEB & PC applications, two of them VisionR and BAS-PC were developed by third parties, other maintained in-house: NRT, AutoMac-Online Administration Tool for Provisioning-VPN Services, E-exchange - Wholesale Online Information Center, BAS-ONLINE - Web based Information Management Tool, AUTREPORT - online VPN usage report utility, MAGATOOL - Web application used to schedule and track IMPACC activities, INSIS Order Entry and Order Management; * Tested English and French versions. Execution role; * Involved in test plan preparation, designed and developed test cases using Black Box testing methodologies; * Validated links

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Quality Assurance Analyst

Hansa International

Jul 2000 - Dec 2004 (4 years 6 months)

Outsourcing Company) PROJECT - HR Management: Web based application, built to optimize enterprise human resources management, developed with Java/J2EE, Microsoft SQL Server, deployed on OC4J application server * Involved in test plan preparation, designed and developed test cases using Black Box testing methodologies; * Built and ran tests cases covering functional, user interface and security access privileges testing; * Recorded test scripts and executed automated regression testing using Win Runner; * Ran in functional manner GUI and usability tests, error and negative tests, boundary and equivalent class tests; * Performed business function testing, browser testing, configuration testing (Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP), installatio

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Computer Sciences Instructor

Infotest

Jan 1998 - Jan 2000 (2 years 1 month)

Private Computer Tutoring onsite, consultations and systems setup; * Teaching Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office Suite in a classroom and private home setting. Installing and troubleshooting software * Taught classes in Web Design and HTML. Developed curriculum for all courses. * Instruct classes in Microsoft Office Level 1 and 2, Introduction to Computers, Introduction to Windows 95/98/2000/XP, and Internet Basics, Intermediate Internet, and Intro to AOL 5.0. Instructor-lead classes. Develop curriculum for each course. * Instructed in a lab setting as a Level 3 instructor (highest level). Taught MS-DOS (for A+ Classes); Windows 3.1 (for A+ Classes); Windows 95/98/2000/XP; Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access; FrontPage; Adobe

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