Summary
Emil Pasca is a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in automation, backend/API testing, and CI/CD-integrated test frameworks across cloud-native environments. He designs and maintains resilient automation ecosystems using Playwright, K6, Python and JavaScript, and has led chaos engineering initiatives to validate system resilience and guide risk-based testing. Emil pairs hands-on technical work—building reproducible pipelines, observability dashboards, and developer onboarding materials—with strategic QA leadership, mentoring small teams and influencing product and architecture decisions. Currently completing a PhD focused on API and IoT security and automated testing, he has produced open-source projects that simulate vulnerable IoT environments and explore AI-assisted API security testing. Known for pragmatic problem-solving and clear communication, he helps teams simplify complex systems and ship higher-quality software with measurable confidence.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul Tehnic "George Barițiu"
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca