Hi, I’m Sargis Sargsyan
Have been in the software industry for more than ten years. Agile believer and excellent team player with experience working in distributed international teams, using Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodology. I was a part of solid industries specialized in Mobile, Web, SaaS, and Enterprise applications. Passionate about public speaking and knowledge sharing. Had a chance to share my experience at Selenium Conf 2015, Appium Conf 2019, STARWEST 2020, HUSTEF 2019, HUSTEF 2020, SQA Days 19 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 27 | 28 | 30, SQA Days EU 1 | 2 , TestCon Europe 2020, Agile Testing Days 2018, TestWarez 2019, DevTalks 2022, TestWarez 2022
What I Do
Quality Strategy
Define quality strategy that will bring together testing, quality assurance (QA), and delivery adopting the automation-first approach
Web App Automation
End to end Automation of web application with modern tools and concepts.
Mobile App Automation
End to end Automation of Android and iOS application with modern tools and concepts including non-functional testing.
Engineering Management Coaching
Behind every great engineering team is an engineering manager helping team leads and engineers.
Release & Process Management
Entails the management, planning, scheduling, and controlling of an entire software build through the SDLC, including testing and deploying software releases.
Agile Transformation
Helping the organization to understand the definition of an agile transformation and its value of it in order to benefit from the rewards of achieving accurate, healthy agility.
My Public Speaking Portfolio
TestWarez 2019 – Getting Started with Dockerization of Selenium Tests Execution
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
Parallel execution of test cases is one of the important requirements of a modern test automation framework. Generally, to run Selenium Suite in parallel, we use a selenium grid and distribute tests across multiple machines, which will reduce the time required for running tests. To run tests in parallel, we need to configure Selenium Grid with Hub and Nodes, where the hub is the central point that will receive test requests along with configurations or capabilities. Based on the request received, the hub will distribute tests to the registered nodes. Selenium has made a set of Docker images that are available on Docker Hub. We have Selenium Grid and the browser images – Chrome and Firefox. There are also images with the debug versions, allowing us to view the test execution. Also, we will compare the Selenium docker with other solutions like Selenoid, Go Grid Router, and Zalenium and will throw advantages and disadvantages. In this session, we will go through the Selenium tests parallel run setup and configuration.
Selenium Conf 2016 – Better Page Object Handling with Loadable Component Pattern
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
One of the painful problems in Selenium automated testing is determining whether an HTML page has been loaded. This is especially the case when web application uses a JS-heavy framework such as the popular AngularJS.
During this talk, we will discuss how to handle the Selenium Page Object pattern better with Loadable Component.
The Loadable Component helps test case developers make sure that the page or a component of the page is loaded successfully. I will share my experience with the concept of the Loadable Component and Page Object patterns.
Appium Conf 2019 – Run your Appium tests using Docker Android
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
In these high-technology times, it is really hard to catch up with everything. Especially in the mobile world when there are thousands of mobile devices with different modifications of the Android OS. Most of us who work in the mobile testing industry are familiar with the Appium framework for UI automation and also aware of its complicated setup and complex maintenance of it. Using Docker in Android UI automation is making our life much easier. Docker-Android is a docker image built to be used for everything related to Android mobile websites or application testing. All the tools needed (devices, framework, Android SDK, etc.) are packaged in the image. It is free and open source and supports other features, such as video recording.
In this session, we will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of Appium and docker-android will go throw getting started with Docker-Android and run sample tests against it.
HUSTEF 2020 – Building in-House Scalable Mobile Lab for Automation
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
It is becoming more and more challenging to test mobile apps on different devices with different screen sizes running different operating systems. During the development of a mobile app, we can easily verify and test the app on a mobile simulator or emulator. However, only simulator or emulator testing isn’t enough, we need to make sure that our app works on devices that our users carry with them in their pockets.
Creating an in-house Automation Mobile Lab will be a good decision if you’re looking to do automated testing, for example, with Selenium and Appium.
A year ago, we started our journey of creating a scalable automation mobile device lab that allows us to run more than 2000 Appium tests daily.
During this talk, I will share the experience that we gain during our long journey of creating our Scalable Automation Device Lab and the solution that allows us easily integrate it with CI tools.
TestWarez 2022 – Speed up your UI automation suite with a robust test data framework
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
Performance is one of the main painful areas of UI test suits. Usually, engineers try to log in, logout, navigate, create data, execute an action from the UI via Selenium, then, in the end, perform test assertions. This creates serious performance issues for the Selenium suite and makes Selenium tests more brittle. We could face fewer problems if the test data creation and deletion were done before the UI test started the run. This will help to create independent tests later to be able to run them in parallel.
The workshop will help participants to create an automation framework that will be fast, stable, and reliable. The solution will work for new and existing frameworks. During the workshop, we will code together to create a framework that will run UI tests in parallel with intelligent test data preparation. We will use Java, TestNG, Selenium, and Docker.
TestCon 2022 – How We Run Thousands of Selenium Tests Within 30 Min
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
Performance is one of the main painful areas of UI test suits. Usually, engineers try to log in, log out, navigate, create data, execute an action from the UI via Selenium, then, in the end, perform test assertions. This creates serious performance issues for the Selenium suite and makes Selenium tests more brittle. We could face fewer problems if the test data creation and deletion were done before the UI test started the run. This will help to create independent tests later to be able to run them in parallel.
Yerevan Testing Days – Dockerize Selenium Test Parallel Execution
Through a wide variety of mobile applications
Parallel execution of test cases is one of the essential requirements of a modern test automation framework. Generally, to run Selenium Suite in parallel, we use a selenium grid and distribute tests across multiple machines, reducing the time required for running tests. To run tests in parallel, we need to configure Selenium Grid with Hub and Nodes, where the hub is the central point that will receive test requests along with configurations or capabilities. Based on the request, the hub will distribute tests to the registered nodes. Selenium has made a set of Docker images available on Docker Hub. We have Selenium Grid and the browser images – Chrome and Firefox. There are also images with the debug versions, which will let us view the test execution. In this session, we will go through the Selenium tests parallel run setup and configuration.
HUSTEF 2019 – Appium Dockerization – From Scratch to Advanced Implementation
In these high-technology times, it is really hard to catch up with everything. Especially in the mobile world when there are thousands of mobile devices with different modifications of the Android OS. Most of us who work in the mobile testing industry are familiar with the Appium framework for UI automation and aware of its complicated setup and complex maintenance. Using Docker in Android UI automation is making our life much easier. Docker-Android is a docker image built for everything related to Android mobile websites or application testing. All the tools needed (devices, framework, Android SDK, etc.) are packaged in the image. It is free and open source and supports other features, such as video recording. In this session, we will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of Appium and docker-android will go throw getting started with Docker-Android and run sample tests against it.
SQA Days 28 – Building in-house Scalable Mobile Lab for Automation
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
It is becoming more and more challenging to test mobile apps on different devices with different screen sizes running different operating systems. We can easily verify and test the app on a mobile simulator or emulator during the development of a mobile app. However, only simulator or emulator testing isn’t enough. We need to make sure that our app works on devices that our users carry with them in their pockets.
Creating an in-house Automation Mobile Lab will be a good decision if you’re looking to do automated testing, for example, with Selenium and Appium.
A year ago, we started our journey of creating a scalable automation mobile device lab that allows us to run more than 2000 Appium tests daily.
During this talk, I will share the experience that we gain during our long journey of creating our Scalable Automation Device Lab and the solution that allows us easily integrate it with CI tools.
SQA Days 20 – Better Page Object Handling with Loadable Component Pattern
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
One of the painful problems in Selenium automated testing is determining whether an HTML page has been loaded. This is especially the case when web application uses a JS-heavy framework such as the popular AngularJS.
During this talk, we will discuss how to handle the Selenium Page Object pattern better with Loadable Component. The Loadable Component helps test case developers make sure that the page or a component of the page is loaded successfully. I will share my experience with the concept of the Loadable Component and Page Object patterns.
SQA Days 23 – Make Your Selenium Suite Faster and Reliable: Test Setup with REST APIs
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
Performance is one of the main painful areas of Selenium suits. Usually, engineers try to log in, log out, navigate, create data, execute an action from the UI via Selenium, then, in the end, perform test assertions. This creates serious performance issues for the Selenium suite and makes Selenium tests more brittle. Also, the problem solution could be better if the test data creation and deletion also will be done before Selenium opens the browser. This will help to create independent tests later to be able to run them in parallel.
SQA Days 22 – Test Data Preparation: Tips and Tricks
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
Performance is one of the main painful areas of the Selenium test. One of the most critical improvement points is Test Data creation and cleanup. In this talk, we will discuss how to create test data via HTTP requests and clean it after the test run.
Optimization of the Selenium suite is essential for us. In this talk, I will present how to create an HTTP requests builder to create and clean up test data after the Selenium test run. This will help you to prepare particular situation before logging into the web application via Selenium and testing the exact functionality you need. After the test run, the cleanup should be done again with an HTTP request to avoid performance issues and minimize flakiness for other tests in the suite.
In addition, I will also present how to use HTTP code to set up session cookies and make configurations, then extract cookies and pass them to Selenium, which will help to skip logging in from UI for every test.
SQA Days 24 – Easy Setup for Parallel Test Execution with Selenium Docker
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
Performance is one of the main painful areas of the Selenium test. One of the most critical improvement points is Test Data creation and cleanup. In this talk, we will discuss how to create test data via HTTP requests and clean it after the test run.
Optimization of the Selenium suite is essential for us. In this talk, I will present how to create an HTTP requests builder to create and clean up test data after the Selenium test run. This will help you to prepare particular situation before logging into the web application via Selenium and testing the exact functionality you need. After the test run, the cleanup should be done again with an HTTP request to avoid performance issues and minimize flakiness for other tests in the suite.
In addition, I will also present how to use HTTP code to set up session cookies and make configurations, then extract cookies and pass them to Selenium, which will help to skip logging in from UI for every test.
SQA Days EU 1 – How to Dockerize Parallel Execution of Selenium Tests
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
Reducing end-to-end test execution time is critical for software development life cycles that wish to implement continuous integration and delivery. Selenium WebDriver allows us to run e2e tests on web applications in different browsers. As it runs across many browsers and operating systems, there are many possible capabilities to test. This workshop will help you to get started with the setup of dockerizing parallel execution of Selenium tests by cutting your test runtime up to 10 times. We’ll also look at how to run tests against several browsers and capabilities.
SQA Days 25 – Appium Dockerization: from scratch to advanced implementation
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
In these high-technology times, it is really hard to catch up with everything. Especially in the mobile world when there are thousands of mobile devices with different modifications of the Android OS. Most of us who work in the mobile testing industry are familiar with the Appium framework for UI automation and also aware of its complicated setup and complex maintenance. Using Docker in Android UI automation is making our life much easier. Docker-Android is a docker image built for everything related to Android mobile websites or application testing. All the tools needed (devices, framework, Android SDK, etc.) are packaged in the image. It is free and open source and supports other features, such as video recording. In this session, we will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of Appium and docker-android will go throw getting started with Docker-Android and run sample tests against it.
SQA Days 30 – The Evolution of Quality Engineering
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
The origins of quality (assurance) engineering are in manufacturing, where quality engineers apply primary statistical methodologies to improve the quality and productivity of products and processes. In the past decade, people have discovered that these methodologies effectively improve almost any system or process, such as financial, health care, and software. Quality Engineering is embedded in Software Engineering and has a high impact and role on the SDLC. QE drives the quality development of products and processes while enabling effective testing in parallel. It has been changed over time and has different scopes starting from testing to automation.
Let’s talk about the evolution of Quality Engineering and the future of our profession. I will share the ideas and approaches I have experienced during the last 12 years.
SQA Days EA 2 – The Symphony of Appium, Selenium Grid, and Real Device Farm
Through a wide variety of mobile applications, we’ve developed a unique visual system and strategy that can be applied across the spectrum of available applications.
Parallel execution of test cases is one of the essential requirements of a modern test automation framework.
Generally, to run Appium Suite in parallel, we use a selenium grid and distribute tests across multiple machines, reducing the time required for running tests. To run tests in parallel, we need to configure Selenium Grid with Hub and mobile devices. Running tests in parallel on an in-house device farm with Selenium Grid will help you run your suite a dozen times faster and help the product teams get fast feedback on any change.
Yerevan Testing Days – Dockerize Selenium Test Parallel Execution
Selenium Conf 2016 – Better Page Object Handling with Loadable Component Pattern
SQA Days 20 – Better Page Object Handling with Loadable Component Pattern
SQA Days-23 Make Your Selenium Suite Faster and Reliable: Test Setup with REST APIs
HUSTEF 2019 – Sargis SARGSYAN – Appium Dockerization – From Scratch to Advanced Implementation
SQA Days-24 Easy Setup for Parallel Test Execution with Selenium Docker
My Resume
Job Experience
Director, Quality Engineering
Picsart
Principal Software Engineer in Test
Workfront, an Adobe Company
Senior Quality Engineering Consultant
Auctionata
Senior Quality Engineer
SGS Digicomply
Senior Quality Engineering Consultant
PrimeProject
Sales Engineer
Armenian Datacom Company
Trainer Experience
Chairman of the State Examination Commission
National Polytechnic University of Armenia
Automation Engineering Lecturer
EIF - Enterprise Incubator Foundation · Contract
Member of the State Examination Commission
State Engineering University of Armenia
Automation
Selenium
Appium
Rest Assured
Selenium Grid
Jenkins
Process Optimization
Release Management
Process Automation
CI/CD
Agile Transformation
Engineering Management
Higher Education
Master Degree in Engineering Economy and Management
National Polytechnic University of Armenia (2009 - 2011)
Bachelor Degree in Engineering Economy and Management
National Polytechnic University of Armenia (2005 - 2009)
Secondary Education
Secondary School Education
Secondary School N3 in Goris(1995 - 2005)