Mihai Patrascu

Mihai Patrascu

Senior Quality Assurance Specialist @ Ontario Public Service Leadership | Leadership dans la fonction publique de l’Ontario

About

Senior QA leader with 25+ years of experience delivering enterprise-scale testing programs across the public sector, financial services, automotive, and technology industries. Proven record of building test strategies, leading multi-team QA efforts, and embedding automation into CI/CD pipelines for web, mobile, API, cloud-native, and legacy mainframe systems. Recognized for translating business requirements into rigorous, metrics-driven testing that improves reliability, accessibility, and customer satisfaction. Let’s connect if you’re passionate about quality, collaboration, and smart process design!

Country

Canada

City

Toronto

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Quality Assurance Analysis, Quality Assurance Standards, Administrative Organization, UAT Coordination, Security Testing, Scenario Testing, Micro Focus Quality Center, GitOps, NV Access NVDA, Microfocus, Job Access With Speech (JAWS), Selenium, Quality Assurance Testing, SQL Tools, Oracle Agile, Automated Software Testing, Test Automation Tools, Accessibility Testing, Azure DevOps ALM, Database Integrity

Experience

Ontario Public Service Leadership | Leadership dans la fonction publique de l’Ontario

Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

Ontario Public Service Leadership | Leadership dans la fonction publique de l’Ontario

LinkedIn
2025-12 - 2026-6 · 7 mos

Toronto, ON

Project: EDR — Electronic Death Registration •  Advised on overall testing strategy, test planning, tool selection, and QA resourcing for a province-wide digital registration system. •  Utilized Microsoft Azure DevOps for end‑to‑end test management — planning, execution, defect tracking, and reporting — ensuring full traceability across Agile delivery cycles •  Expanded automation coverage by building and maintaining API/UI regression suites, reducing manual testing effort and accelerating release cycles •  Designed and execute integration tests validating workflows between internal ministry systems and external partners. •  Built and ran performance tests simulating concurrent transactions across message-queue-based systems, confirming reliability and scalability at peak load. •  Coordinated QA activities across multiple business and technology teams, each owning a distinct component of the project. •  Validated content migration end to end — content integrity, metadata, URL redirects, and SEO compliance — plus faceted search, autocomplete, and dynamic filtering. Tools:  Postman, Playwright, SoapUI, Microsoft Azure DevOps, SharePoint, SQL

Sphere3dHub

Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

Sphere3dHub

LinkedIn
2024-9 - 2025-12 · 1 yr 4 mos

•  Led API-driven microservices testing across REST and GraphQL endpoints, covering authentication flows and secure data exchange. •  Executed real-time, low-latency performance testing of high-throughput, event-driven systems, tuning message-qeuing workflows for stability under load. •  Integrated automated API and UI test suites into Microsoft Azure DevOps pipelines, enabling continuous regression coverage, faster defect detection, and reliable multi‑environment deployments •  Tested enterprise authentication end to end: RBAC, SSO, MFA, and federated identity integrations. •  Verified data integrity and migration through targeted SQL validation, and secured file-processing and vendor-reporting workflows including virus scanning and template checks. delivered responsive-design and AODA/WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility coverage across desktop, tablet, and mobile.

Education | Éducation

Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

Education | Éducation

LinkedIn
2023-5 - 2024-9 · 1 yr 5 mos

Project: OSAP – OLSG/OSOG Modules · Led enterprise-scale testing for API-driven CMS, authentication, search, and analytics platforms. · Designed and executed integration tests validating internal and external system workflows. · Conducted accessibility and responsive design testing for multiple user personas. · Performed authentication & security testing: RBAC, SSO, MFA, federated identity providers. · Executed performance/load testing for high-volume public sector usage. · Conducted content migration testing: content integrity, metadata, URL redirects, SEO compliance. · Tested advanced search and discovery features, including faceted search, autocomplete, and dynamic filtering. · Developed QA artifacts: Test Strategy, Test Plans, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, Test Results. · Automated API and UI tests with Playwright and Postman; integrated into CI/CD pipelines. · Collaborated in Agile teams, providing defect metrics, risk assessments, and sprint planning insights. Tools & Technologies: Microfocus ALM, Postman, Playwright, Azure DevOps, JIRA, SQL, Oracle, Git, JMeter, Jenkins, AWS, Azure, AODA compliance tools

Education | Éducation

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Education | Éducation

LinkedIn
2022-9 - 2023-3 · 7 mos

· Automated API and UI tests, including integration, regression, and performance/load testing. · Conducted accessibility (AODA/WCAG) testing across multiple platforms. · Integrated automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git. · Collaborated in Agile/Scrum teams, providing QA insights, sprint metrics, and testing guidance. · Executed end-to-end testing for multi-component digital platforms and enterprise integrations. Tools & Technologies: Selenium, Playwright, Postman, JMeter, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, SQL, Oracle, AODA compliance tools

Candescent

Senior Quality Assurance Automation Specialist

Candescent

LinkedIn
2021-1 - 2022-7 · 1 yr 7 mos

· Performed ADA/WCAG accessibility testing, ensuring compliance with public sector standards. · Conducted WebSphere and Kubernetes environment validation for enterprise applications. · Executed SOAPUI API testing, regression automation, and system integration testing. · Validated data integrity across multiple platforms and databases. Tools & Technologies: Selenium, SOAPUI, LoadRunner, JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Oracle SQL, Jenkins, Windows & Linux, Agile/Scrum

AM Solutions - Acquired by JTS

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

AM Solutions - Acquired by JTS

LinkedIn
2019 - 2020 · 1 yr

· Performed CRM & legacy system testing, cloud verification, automated API testing, performance testing. Tools & Technologies: Selenium, SOAPUI, LoadRunner, JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Oracle SQL, Jenkins, Windows & Linux, Agile/Scrum

Viziya Corp

Senior Quality Assurance Specialist

Viziya Corp

2018 - 2019 · 1 yr

· Performed Enterprise CMS, accessibility, system integration, UAT coordination. Tools & Technologies: Selenium, SOAPUI, LoadRunner, JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Oracle SQL, Jenkins, Windows & Linux, Agile/Scrum

Covaleyo

Business Analyst Quality Assurance

Covaleyo

LinkedIn
2017-5 - 2018-8 · 1 yr 4 mos

Toronto, Canada Area

Ford Motor Company

Senior Software QA Engineer

Ford Motor Company

LinkedIn
2006-5 - 2016-12 · 10 yrs 8 mos

Oakville

• Daily Stand-up with team members report of our daily execution of tasks performed on previous day... what's our plan for the day to execute to meet our goal , and if we encountered any roadblocks or impediments that would be identified as a roadblock. • Completed quality assurance testing of developed applications and identified code areas that needed improvements. • Worked closely with senior management, BA and Dev to track, archive, and measure quality of software at every phase of the RUP process by appropriately managing defect trends and testing approaches. • Provided leadership, supervision and coaching to the team members on multiple projects varying in size and complexity both locally and offshore. • Organized internal QA documentation and structured all the testing type approaches (i.e.: Agile, Acceptance, Sanity, Functional, Automated, e.t.c) • Create and execute automated test scripts with WinRunner and QuickTest Professional (HP-UFT) • Maintaining defect reports, Business requirements, Technical specifications, User manuals and other documentation as necessary. • Involve in Agile and Quarter releases during non-business hour. • One on One daily meeting with QA off shore team members

Honda Canada Inc.

Quality Assurance Analyst Team Lead

Honda Canada Inc.

LinkedIn
2005-9 - 2006-5 · 9 mos

Scarborough

• First one to successfully introduce and evolve software Quality Assurance concepts into the Canadian branch of Honda Motor Company under the Rational Unified Process • Proposed, implemented, configured, and setup defect tracking concepts into Mercury Interactive Test Director and WinRunner/Quick Test Pro/LoadRunner software for a team of 20 (Claim Project) • Introduced and implemented advanced self-made Excel matrix to track and measure real time test case execution per software component and overall testing status of entire build • Organized all internal QA documentation and structured all the testing type approaches (i.e.: Acceptance, Sanity, Functional, Automated, e.t.c) • Worked closely with senior management, BA and Dev to track, archive, and measure quality of software at every phase of the RUP process by appropriately managing defect trends and testing approaches • Involved with all aspects of product implementation, product customer turn-over, product support, and updates to Use Case enhancements throughout the Claim project life cycle • Worked closely with key business partners to prepare for product customer turn over and production turn over of one of the major J2EE business data driven systems for all of Honda

Education

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest

LinkedIn
1991 - 1996 · 5 yrs

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