Sulkhan Kartsivadze

Senior QA Engineer

📍 Tbilisi, Georgia

Building quality into every release — from test strategy to CI pipelines.

6+ Years Experience
5 Industries
Manual & Auto Testing Coverage

Key Highlights

Frame.so Lead QA

QA From Zero

Challenge: No QA process existed in a growing product team.

Built testing strategy, tooling, and processes from scratch. Defined functional and non-functional scope, led API testing with Postman and Swagger, and mentored QA contributors.

Full product test coverage established across the entire platform.

Strategy API Testing Mentorship
Adjarabet Backend QA

Regulatory Platform Testing

Challenge: High-compliance backend system requiring strict data integrity under heavy load.

Performed API and database testing across Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed and maintained functional and non-functional test cases. Building Playwright end-to-end automation for the regulatory backoffice.

Reduced production defects significantly while improving system stability and compliance.

Backend Compliance Playwright
Exactpro Systems Automation

Trade Test Automation

Challenge: Manual trade comparison testing for major stock exchanges was slow and error-prone.

Automated trade comparison tests using Python and Allure. Integrated automated suites into Jenkins CI pipelines. Promoted from junior to mentor within 3 months.

Transitioned the team from manual to automated testing with full CI integration.

Python CI/CD Financial Markets
Space Next Door BDD

BDD Testing Pipeline

Challenge: A Singapore-based product needed a complete automated testing process from scratch.

Wrote BDD Gherkin scenarios, bridged manual and automation by guiding 2 automation testers covering visual and non-visual test suites.

Delivered a complete 3-person QA pipeline with full automated coverage.

BDD Gherkin Team Leadership

Core Skills

Experience

Adjarabet (Flutter Entertainment) Software Quality Assurance Officer Dec 2020 – Present Tbilisi, Georgia
Frame.so Lead QA Engineer Sep 2022 – Oct 2024
Space Next Door Quality Assurance Specialist Aug 2021 – Jan 2022
Exactpro Systems Junior Software Developer in Test Oct 2019 – Sep 2020
FINA LLC System Integrator / QA Jan 2018 – Oct 2019

Languages

Georgian Native
English B2–C1
Russian Speaking: Native · Writing: B1

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