Pierre Armanet

QA Engineer · iLex

Fintech · interbank loan management · 15-person team

• Built a Karate-based test automation suite covering 500+ REST endpoints with 80% API coverage, replacing manual testing with stage-specific workflows across dev, staging and production, and cutting manual QA time by 80%.
• Surfaced 200+ critical bugs and edge cases through fuzz testing before release; integrated the suite into a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline with DevOps.
• Authored SOPs and a Python sync tool keeping the test suite aligned with API changes across releases.

Blockchain IT Consultant · BearingPoint

• Web3 CRM and mobile app: designed a Web3-based CRM using XMTP messaging and ERC721/1155 product passports; built the React Native client with abstract account management (ERC4337) and AR features for a luxury-sector client.
• Delivered a Web3 curriculum to 400+ consultants and 300+ engineering students across three institutions; built Web2/Web3 hybrid proofs of concept that helped win contracts.
• TruBudget (Burkina Faso and Fundação Amazônia Sustentável): adapted an open-source platform now powering Burkina Faso's external-finance management; built a custom Express overlay API, QR-based asset tracking in React Native, and on-premise blockchain node integration; ran a 10-day technical training for the local IT team.
• CBDC Madagascar: evaluated 16 CBDC technology suppliers through patent and whitepaper analysis, shortlisting four providers for the Central Bank.

Software Engineering Intern · Plebicom

• Built an NLP pipeline (fuzzy matching, embeddings, supervised classification) mapping banking transaction labels to company names; the system has produced 1M+ matches to date and powers feature improvements on ebuyclub.com.