Sarkis Katvalyan

I’m a Fullstack QA Engineer with experience in Fintech and startups, focused on writing automation tests and improving QA processes. I enjoy turning requirements into reliable coverage and helping teams ship with confidence.

Currently, I work at Sovcombank Technologies on remote banking services for legal entities, owning UI and API test automation. I develop Java automation tests with Selenide, write API tests with RestAssured and Jackson based on Swagger, and reduced regression time by 1.5x. I also co-introduced a cross-review process for test cases and automated tests, significantly reducing the number of bugs missed in production.

Before that, at Parnas IT, I built end-to-end WEB and API automation in Python using Pytest across multiple projects. I integrated tests with Jenkins and Allure so they ran before each release, which significantly reduced regression time and decreased bugs reaching production. I also independently established the testing process without a QA Lead (test plan, checklists, defect backlog, release cycle, and incident retrospectives) and introduced smoke testing as a mandatory release stage.

My approach combines functional, regression, smoke, and integration testing with requirements analysis, incident analysis, and release support. I mentor junior QA engineers by reviewing test documentation and initial automated tests, and I use AI assistants (DeepSeek) to speed up writing automated tests and test case templates. Developers and analysts consistently give me high feedback for delivering tasks under tight deadlines with changing requirements.