Arman Ayvazyan: CV

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Hi! I'm Arman Ayvazyan. Welcome to my space!

Here I share what I learn about AI in QA and test automation, and run practical online lessons to help you upgrade your technical skills.

What you'll find here

Experience

Senior QA Engineer, JetBrains (Qodana)

Nov 2022 – Present · Yerevan, Armenia

Owned test strategy for Qodana Cloud, ensuring product quality across a multi-service architecture and cloud distributions.
Designed and maintained end-to-end automation frameworks (Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit5) covering system and integration layers.
Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines in TeamCity with Kotlin DSL scripts for test orchestration and reporting.
Integrated a performance test suite with Gatling and Kotlin.
Integrated test reporting via Allure TestOps, improving visibility of test runs and release quality metrics.
Drove QA process improvements: standardized test environments, optimized data setup and improved CI stability.

CTO, HopShop

Nov 2023 – Sep 2024

Coordinated a technical team of 4 (Frontend, Backend, QA).
Developed the backend using Ktor with Kotlin.
Built the integration with AWS Product Advertising in Python.

Software Development Engineer in Test, DataArt

Sep 2021 – Nov 2022 · Yerevan, Armenia

Designed and developed mobile automation suites for iOS and Android using native UI testing frameworks.
Integrated the Appium framework.
Maintained the API testing framework and wrote new tests using a BDD approach.
Tested newly developed features to deliver a high-quality product.
Integrated suites with a remote test execution platform and a test management system.

Quality Engineer (part-time), ANIV

Jun 2021 – Sep 2022 · Yerevan, Armenia

Performed acceptance and integration testing across Android and iOS apps, a web admin panel and web APIs.
Created and maintained an integration test suite, integrated with CI/CD for daily runs.
Worked with the development team on optimizing release processes.
Improved delivery processes and verified the quality of newly developed features.

Co-Founder, Software Engineer, One Pick

Sep 2021 – Jul 2022

Built and supported the infrastructure for the product.
Dockerized applications to improve scalability and deployment efficiency.
Developed backend services with Koa.js.
Designed, implemented and managed MongoDB databases.
Ensured seamless integration between frontend and backend.

Software Engineer in Test, Picsart

Sep 2020 – Sep 2021 · Yerevan, Armenia

Created and maintained the web automation framework.
Supported the mobile test automation suite.
Maintained the API test automation framework.
Configured CI tools for test automation runs.
Worked with Monetization and Growth teams to optimize test automation quality.

Quality Engineer, Picsart

Aug 2019 – Feb 2021 · Yerevan, Armenia

Designed, created, executed and maintained test cases in a test management system.
Performed manual and automated regression, integration and sanity testing on web browsers and mobile devices.
Performed API testing.
Ensured deliverables met functional and design specifications and requirements.
Collaborated closely with developers to ensure defects were correctly identified and fixed.

Technical Support Specialist, Ucom

Jun 2018 – Jul 2019 · Yerevan, Armenia

Resolved customers' technical issues on first contact and escalated unresolved requests.
Handled inbound and outbound technical support calls.

Skills

Languages

Kotlin, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python

Test automation

Playwright, Rest Assured, JUnit5, TestNG, Selenium, Selenide, Appium, Espresso, XCTest, Cypress

Performance

Gatling

CI/CD & reporting

TeamCity (Kotlin DSL), GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Allure TestOps, TestRail

Backend

Ktor, Koa.js, Express, MongoDB

AI in QA

LLM tools, AI agents in testing workflows