Summary
Livia Bud is a QA Automation Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building reliable test suites for finance, automotive, desktop and web applications from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. She specializes in end-to-end automation across API and UI layers using Playwright, Selenium, C#, Java, TypeScript and Cucumber, and has implemented CI jobs and load/stress testing pipelines. Her recent work focuses on API testing with Postman and Playwright+TypeScript at CritiklT after delivering cross-stack automation at NTT DATA and Cognizant Softvision. Colleagues know her for strong communication, persistence, and a pragmatic approach to turning flaky test regions into stable, repeatable checks. She pairs technical testing craft with a background in business informatics and ongoing AI engineering study, bringing both domain awareness and curiosity to quality challenges. An unusual combination: she also holds advanced philosophical training, which sharpens her analytical thinking when dissecting tricky defects.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Electro-Mechanical Technology, High School Diploma, Electro-Mechanical Technology at Stefan Hell Technological High School.
Bachelor's degree, Business Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Business Informatics at Babeș-Bolyai University
Information Technology, Information Technology at The Informal School of IT
English, French, Italian