I lead test architecture at Align Technology in Yerevan. For more than 17 years I've built quality engineering teams and the test infrastructure they depend on, and since 2015 I've been sharing what worked, and what didn't, on conference stages.
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Spoken at SeleniumConf STARWEST Agile Testing Days Appium Conf HUSTEF DevTalks Nordic Testing Days TestCon Europe AutomationSTAR Expo:QA QA: Challenge Accepted DevCon TestWarez SQA Days WeTest.SKG Google DevFest BarCamp Yerevan
I'm working through how LLM tooling fits into writing and maintaining tests at scale: where generated tests hold up, where they quietly rot, and what review has to look like when a model writes the first draft.
I treat this as an engineering leadership problem more than a tooling one. The interesting question isn't which assistant is best. It's what changes about code review, ownership and how engineers grow when the first draft is cheap. This year it became a talk at DevTalks: designing reliable AI-generated test automation using proven design patterns.
Three areas, one goal: teams that can change software quickly without being afraid of it.
Current focus
Generating and maintaining tests with LLMs, agentic coding workflows, and the review practice that keeps generated code honest.
Fast, parallel, trustworthy suites. Where most of my talks come from.
Managing quality engineering organisations since 2018.
More than 30 talks and workshops at 17 conferences in 15 countries since 2015. Browse every event, or see the talks I give grouped by topic.
Test architecture that scales: how loadable components empower testing with Selenium
Thessaloniki, Greece
Event page for WeTest.SKG 2026 (opens in a new tab)Designing reliable AI-generated test automation using proven design patterns
Bucharest, Romania
Event page for DevTalks 2026 (opens in a new tab)Test architecture that scales: how loadable components empower testing with Selenium
Valencia, Spain
Event page for SeleniumConf 2026 (opens in a new tab)Efficiency matters: mastering a dockerized, scalable grid for Selenium and Playwright test suites
Anaheim, USA
Event page for STARWEST 2024 (opens in a new tab)Efficiency matters: mastering a dockerized, scalable grid for Selenium and Playwright test suites
Budapest, Hungary
Event page for HUSTEF 2024 (opens in a new tab)Efficiency matters: mastering a dockerized, scalable grid for Selenium and Playwright test suites
Bucharest, Romania
Event page for DevCon 2024 (opens in a new tab)Efficiency matters: mastering a dockerized, scalable grid for Selenium and Playwright test suites
Tallinn, Estonia
Event page for Nordic Testing Days 2024 (opens in a new tab)Mastering automation: unlocking efficiency through atomic test design
Madrid, Spain
Event page for Expo:QA 2024 (opens in a new tab)The power of UI atomic automated tests
Berlin, Germany
Event page for AutomationSTAR 2023 (opens in a new tab)The power of atomic automated tests: our experience of improved test efficiency and reliability
Vilnius, Lithuania
The power of atomic automated tests: our experience of improved test efficiency and reliability
Budapest, Hungary
Event page for HUSTEF 2023 (opens in a new tab)The power of atomic automated tests: our experience of improved test efficiency and reliability
Sofia, Bulgaria
Event page for QA: Challenge Accepted 2023 (opens in a new tab)The evolution of quality engineering
Bucharest, Romania
Speed up your UI automation suite with a robust test data framework
Łódź, Poland
Event page for TestWarez 2022 (opens in a new tab)How we run thousands of Selenium tests within 30 minutes
Vilnius, Lithuania
Event page for TestCon Europe 2022 (opens in a new tab)The symphony of Appium, Selenium Grid and a real device farm
Yerevan, Armenia
The evolution of quality engineering
Moscow, Russia
Building an in-house scalable mobile lab for automation
St. Petersburg, Russia
Event page for SQA Days 28 2021 (opens in a new tab)Building an in-house scalable mobile lab for automation
Budapest, Hungary
Event page for HUSTEF 2020 (opens in a new tab)Appium dockerization: from scratch to advanced implementation
Budapest, Hungary
Event page for HUSTEF 2019 (opens in a new tab)Getting started with dockerization of Selenium test execution
Warsaw, Poland
Event page for TestWarez 2019 (opens in a new tab)Run your Appium tests using Docker Android
Bengaluru, India
Event page for Appium Conf 2019 (opens in a new tab)How to dockerize parallel execution of Selenium tests
Riga, Latvia
Event page for SQA Days EU 2019 (opens in a new tab)Appium dockerization: from scratch to advanced implementation
Easy setup for parallel test execution with Selenium Docker
Event page for SQA Days 24 2018 (opens in a new tab)Make your Selenium suite faster and reliable: test setup with REST APIs
Minsk, Belarus
Event page for SQA Days 23 2018 (opens in a new tab)Better page object handling with the loadable component pattern
How to do visual testing with Selenium
Potsdam, Germany
Event page for Agile Testing Days 2017 (opens in a new tab)Test data preparation: tips and tricks
Event page for SQA Days 22 2017 (opens in a new tab)Better page object handling with the loadable component pattern
Minsk, Belarus
Better page object handling with the loadable component pattern
Bengaluru, India
Event page for Selenium Conf 2016 (opens in a new tab)Selenium testing on Chrome
Yerevan, Armenia
Web application testing with Selenium
Yerevan, Armenia
One day of quality
Yerevan, Armenia
How to keep AI-generated tests maintainable by holding them to the same design patterns as hand-written ones.
Given at DevTalks 2026
Loadable components as the backbone of a Selenium test architecture that stays readable as the suite grows. First given in 2016, rebuilt for 2026.
Given at WeTest.SKG 2026, SeleniumConf 2026, Agile Testing Days 2017, SQA Days 20 2016, Selenium Conf 2016
Hands-on: build a dockerized, horizontally scalable grid and run Selenium and Playwright suites on it in parallel.
Given at STARWEST 2024, HUSTEF 2024, DevCon 2024, Nordic Testing Days 2024
Why small, independent UI tests beat long end-to-end journeys, with the numbers from moving a real suite over.
Given at Expo:QA 2024, AutomationSTAR 2023, TestCon Europe 2023, HUSTEF 2023, QA: Challenge Accepted 2023
How the QA role turned into quality engineering, and what that means for hiring, team shape and ownership.
Given at DevTalks 2022, SQA Days 30 2022
The infrastructure and test design that took a large Selenium suite down to a 30-minute run.
Given at TestCon Europe 2022
Creating test data through APIs instead of the UI to make suites faster and less flaky.
Given at TestWarez 2022, SQA Days 23 2018, SQA Days 22 2017
Building an in-house mobile device lab with Appium, Selenium Grid and real devices, and running it at scale.
Given at SQA Days EA-2 2022, SQA Days 28 2021, HUSTEF 2020
Running Appium tests in Docker with Android emulators, from a first container to a production setup.
Given at HUSTEF 2019, Appium Conf 2019, SQA Days 25 2019
Setting up parallel Selenium execution with Docker, from scratch.
Given at TestWarez 2019, SQA Days EU 2019, SQA Days 24 2018
Adding visual checks to an existing Selenium suite.
Given at Agile Testing Days 2017
Early talks introducing Selenium-based web testing to the Yerevan developer community.
Given at Google DevFest 2015, BarCamp Yerevan 2015
A day in the life of quality engineering, given at the Yerevan QA meetup.
Given at QA MeetUp Yerevan 2015
From writing the first automated checks to running quality engineering for products used by millions.
Oct 2023 – now
Align Technology · Yerevan
Test architecture and automation strategy across engineering teams.
Dec 2018 – Apr 2023
Picsart · Yerevan
Built and led the quality engineering organisation for Picsart's mobile and web products.
Mar 2017 – Dec 2018
Workfront, now Adobe Workfront · Yerevan
Jan 2016 – Mar 2017
Auctionata Paddle8 AG · Berlin
Sep 2011 – Jan 2016
Workfront · Yerevan
Oct 2015 – Sep 2018
PrimeProjekt · alongside full-time roles
Sep 2009 – Jul 2011
Armenian Datacom Company · Yerevan
Everything a programme committee usually asks for. Copy what you need.
Sargis Sargsyan is Senior Test Architecture Manager at Align Technology in Yerevan, Armenia. He has more than 17 years in software quality, including over four years as Director of Quality Engineering at Picsart, and since 2015 he has given more than 30 talks on test automation at 17 conferences in 15 countries.
Sargis Sargsyan is Senior Test Architecture Manager at Align Technology in Yerevan, Armenia, with more than 17 years in software quality. Before Align he was Director of Quality Engineering at Picsart, where he built and led the quality engineering organisation. Earlier he was a Principal Software Engineer in Test at Workfront (now Adobe Workfront) and a Senior Quality Engineer at Auctionata in Berlin. His talks focus on making large test suites fast and trustworthy: dockerized grids, atomic test design, test data strategy and in-house device labs, and most recently on keeping AI-generated tests reliable with proven design patterns. Since 2015 he has given more than 30 talks and workshops at conferences including SeleniumConf, Appium Conf, STARWEST, HUSTEF, DevTalks, Agile Testing Days and Nordic Testing Days, in English and Russian.
Email is the fastest way to reach me: speaking invitations, quality engineering, or how teams are really using AI in their testing.
