About

Nicolae Nitescu is a highly experienced Web, Mobile, and QA Engineer with a strong understanding of software development and testing life cycles. He is also well-versed in Semiconductor IC processing. Nicolae's passion for learning new technologies, particularly artificial intelligence and gaming, is evident in his work. He is fluent in English, French, and Romanian, and enjoys playing tennis, camping, trading on the stock market, and video games. Nicolae's technical skills include programming languages such as Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Python, Visual Basic, and C++. He is also proficient in web development technologies such as HTML, CSS, XML, REST APIs, AJAX, and jQuery, and has expertise in Rails, React Native, Node, Sinatra, and Unity. Nicolae has worked with IDEs such as IntelliJ, Eclipse, and JUnit, and databases/tools such as Oracle, MySQL, Active Record, postgreSQL, SQLite3, and Git. He has experience in test automation using Selenium WebDriver, TouchTest, and RSPEC, and web testing tools such as Firebug, XPath, DOM Inspector, and RegEx Tester. Additionally, Nicolae has knowledge of networking protocols like TCP/IP, FTP, HTTP, Internet, and Intranet, and virtualization tools such as VMware Server and Oracle VirtualBox. He is also proficient in bug tracking tools like Bugzilla and JIRA. Currently, Nicolae is working as a Software Engineer at zyraxes, where he has developed new scenes in Unity3D and an artificial intelligence in Java and Apache Derby. He has reported issues to JIRA following company procedures and tested the games in a systematic way, analyzing their performance against the designer's intentions, identifying and reporting problems, and suggesting improvements. Nicolae has also developed all lines of test documentation using business and technical requirements and maintained automated regression tests using Selenium Webdriver with Java. In the past, Nicolae has worked as a Software QA Engineer at Cengage Learning and Evercam, where he tested web-based applications for education and a proprietary mobile cross-platform video sharing application, respectively. He has also created and executed detailed test cases for the assigned areas, tested application behavior under various interruptions, and reported over 300 issues to JIRA following company procedures. Nicolae holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics and a Master of Science degree in Electronic Physics from the University of Bucharest. He also completed a Dev Bootcamp program in 2016. Nicolae's tech stack includes