Test automation architecture
Designing scalable automation frameworks, improving test coverage and establishing testing practices a team can own and keep reliable.
Alin NituIndependent Quality Engineer & SDET
Quality engineering for software that can’t afford to break.
I’m an independent Senior Quality Engineer with 9+ years of experience building automation frameworks, designing test strategies and improving how teams ship. I combine solid engineering practice with AI-assisted workflows.
- Experience
- 9+ years in quality engineering
- Sectors
- Aviation, enterprise, fintech
- Core stack
- Python, TypeScript, Playwright
- Based in
- Bucharest, working remotely
Expertise
What I help teams with.
API & integration testing
Validating complex backend systems: REST, SOAP and GraphQL APIs, asynchronous messaging and distributed workflows.
CI/CD & quality engineering
Building automation into the delivery workflow, shortening regression feedback, diagnosing flaky tests and supporting reliable releases.
AI-assisted quality engineering
Using AI agents and AI-assisted development to speed up test development, debugging and analysis, with a human reviewing what ships.
Selected work
Nine years on systems where failures are expensive.
Client work is described at a public-safe level: no screenshots, no proprietary detail.
Indra Avitech
- EUROCONTROL iNMUI, REST/SOAP API and performance automation frameworks for a European flight-planning platform.
- FF-ICEA separate Python BDD integration framework for a distributed, message-driven system, verifying AMQP flows and PostgreSQL state.
PwC
Quality engineering for a large enterprise platform with TypeScript, Playwright, GraphQL, CI/CD and AI-assisted workflows. Automation built into the team’s delivery supported a weekly release cadence.
Moonfare
Part of the team that built the company’s public API from scratch. Introduced testing practices and automation that other internal teams went on to adopt.
Billie
Built automation for the company’s ordering workflows, cutting regression testing time by about 50% and catching defects earlier.
Writing
Field Notes
An engineering journal. Articles on quality, automation and building things.
19 Oct 2026
Software quality3 min read
17 Oct 2026
Message-driven testing10 min read
Is software quality getting worse, or am I just a biased QA engineer?
Three everyday bugs. A few unnecessary heart attacks. And some uncomfortable questions about how we’re building software in the age of AI.
Testing a system that will not tell you which output belongs to your input.
The response has no correlation ID. A field note on a Python test framework for an AMQP service, and the broker investigation that explained why tests passed alone but failed together.
Coming soon
AI & agents
How AI coding agents are changing my engineering workflow
Coming soon
Building alone
I was tired of searching for jobs, so I built my own tool
Independent projects
Products I’ve designed, built and shipped on my own.
Both built solo with AI-assisted development tools, and both in front of real users.
Live
Maponim
Turns a local business’s Google reviews into a one-page website its customers will recognise. Every line traces back to a real review, the business profile or the owner.
Beta, free during beta
Next Job Radar
Eligibility-first job discovery for tech professionals in Europe. It checks each opening against your real constraints first, then explains the fit with evidence from the posting.
About
I’ve always been more interested in why things break than simply knowing that they do.
That’s what drew me deeper into software engineering. From manual testing to automation architecture and designing frameworks, I’ve spent over nine years learning how complex systems behave, and how to make them more reliable.
I like solving problems and understanding how systems actually work. I usually own the automation end to end, from test strategy and framework design to CI integration, and I work closely with developers, DevOps and product along the way.
Lately that curiosity also goes into building my own products, using AI-assisted tools to get from an idea to something people can use.
Contact
Have a project or a role in mind?
I’m open to B2B contracts, consulting and the right engineering role. I read every message myself.
alin.nitu1@gmail.comThanks, it’s on its way.
I’ll reply to the address you left.