Summary
Stella Jivkova is a Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer with 13 years of experience building and leading QA efforts across FinTech, banking, government and trading products. She combines deep hands-on automation expertise (Playwright, TestCafe, Cypress, Selenium, REST Assured) and CI/CD design with proven team and tech leadership on both greenfield and legacy systems. Comfortable working with international teams in English, she has driven R&D initiatives including LLM-response mocking for fully automated end-to-end tests and proof-of-concepts for LLM evaluation. Her background in software engineering and teaching, plus early experience in design, gives her a pragmatic appreciation for product quality, usability and maintainability. Now based in Sofia, she focuses on advancing quality engineering practices and scalable automated testing pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Math and Science School "Ekzarh Antim I"
BS, Software engineering, BS, Software engineering at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
Bulgarian, English