Bianca Tapescu

- Hands-on manual, exploratory and automated testing (Playwright/TypeScript) following completion of Head of QA interim role. - Maintaining automation suite, CI/CD pipelines and embedding QA processes across the team.

- Promoted to lead QA transformation post-acquisition. - Scaled QA team from 2 to 6, introduced Playwright automation (−30% regression time), defined performance testing strategy (Artillery, JMeter), implemented release governance, and represented Quality in cross-functional leadership. - Hands-on across manual and automation testing throughout.

- Joined during Netsells merger. Hands-on functional, regression and exploratory testing across web and mobile. - Built Playwright automation integrated into CI/CD, conducted API testing, introduced AI-assisted test case generation (−40% test design effort), ensured WCAG 2.2 compliance.

- Built and managed QA function across web and mobile projects. Grew team from 1 to 4 engineers. - Defined QA strategy, test plans and reporting. - Hands-on manual and Selenium automation integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

- Established Netsells' QA department from scratch. Hands-on manual and exploratory testing across web and mobile. - Defined QA strategy, implemented defect management and championed shift-left testing.

- Managed 40+ testers across AAA titles including Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare, Need for Speed: Payback, Need for Speed, Star Wars: Battlefront - Directed test planning, defect tracking and quality metrics. Conducted performance reviews and produced QA reports for stakeholders.

- Executed manual testing for major console and PC releases: Need for Speed, Star Wars Battlefront, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 - Logged and managed defects per departmental standards; performed structured regression testing - Delivered detailed feedback to production teams, contributing to faster iteration and release stability

Supported recruitment and organisational processes during university, gaining early exposure to structured hiring and candidate evaluation — experience that later informed my approach to building and mentoring QA teams.