AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

Stefan Istrate

SDET transitioning into Cloud Engineering | DevOps Enthusiast

Bucharest, Romania

About Me

Self-taught SDET with 5+ years of experience in automated testing, currently pivotting towards Cloud Engineering. Expert in building scalable automation frameworks and integrating them into modern CI/CD pipelines.

Core Expertise

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (SAA-C03)
Terraform
Linux
GitHub/GitLab CI/CD
Docker

Automation & QA

Playwright
Cypress
Selenium
Java / Python / TS

Experience

QA Automation Engineer | Yes Energy

June 2025 - Present

QA Automation Engineer | Deutsche Bank

Sept 2021 - June 2025

Automated 70% of manual regression test cases.
Integrated Playwright/Cypress into CI/CD pipelines.
Mentored junior engineers and led technical interviews.

Recent Projects

Cloud Portfolio Website

Hosted on AWS using S3, CloudFront, Route 53, and ACM. Fully automated via HTTPS with global content delivery.

Playwright Automation Framework

Integrated with GitLab CI/CD using Dockerized builds and design patterns (Facade, Observer, Page Object Model).