Sulkhan Kartsivadze

Building quality into every release — from test strategy to CI pipelines. Senior QA Engineer with 6+ years of experience across 5 industries, covering both manual and automation testing.

Core Skills

Experience

Adjarabet (Flutter Entertainment) · Software Quality Assurance Officer

Dec 2020 – Present · Tbilisi, Georgia

Backend — Regulatory Platform Sep 2023 – Present

Focused on backend and regulatory platform testing, improving system stability and compliance.
Performed API and database testing using Postman, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Oracle.
Designed and maintained functional and non-functional test cases, reducing production defects significantly.
Writing Playwright automation tests for the Regulatory backoffice front-end application.

Frontend QA Dec 2020 – Aug 2023

Validated weekly frontend releases and ensured integration quality across merged branches.
Collaborated cross-functionally with developers and product teams in Agile/Scrum workflows.

Frame.so · Lead QA Engineer

Sep 2022 – Oct 2024

Built and executed QA strategy from scratch, ensuring full product test coverage.
Led API testing efforts using Postman and Swagger for system integrations.
Defined functional and non-functional testing scope and mentored QA contributors.
Tracked defects and delivery progress using Linear in an Agile environment.

Space Next Door · Quality Assurance Specialist

Aug 2021 – Jan 2022

Part of a 3-person QA team delivering a full automated testing process for a Singapore-based product.
Served as the Manual QA specialist — tested weekly sprints, analysed functionality, and wrote BDD (Gherkin) scenarios.
Bridged manual and automation by translating requirements into Gherkin scripts and guiding 2 automation testers (visual and non-visual testing).
Reviewed Figma designs and technical documentation to clarify requirements early.
Tracked sprint tickets and defects in Jira to ensure release quality.

Exactpro Systems · Junior Software Developer in Test

Oct 2019 – Sep 2020

Test Automation — Python & Allure Apr 2020 – Sep 2020

Automated trade comparison tests using Python and Allure.
Integrated automated tests into Jenkins CI pipelines.

Mentor & Manual QA Jan 2020 – Mar 2020

Promoted to mentor new team members after initial 3-month ramp-up.
Continued manual testing of post-trade systems while onboarding juniors.

Junior SDT Oct 2019 – Dec 2019

Performed manual testing of post-trade systems for major stock exchanges.
Learned domain-specific testing for financial market infrastructure.

FINA LLC · System Integrator / QA

Jan 2018 – Oct 2019

System Integrator & QA Apr 2018 – Oct 2019

Configured systems on AWS and Azure for development and staging environments.
Managed ETL processes and validated data integrity.
Queried SQL and NoSQL databases for troubleshooting and analysis.
Performed manual QA testing across integrated systems to ensure release quality.
Provided international client support across multiple countries and time zones.

Products & Clients

EMS — Enforcement Management & Monitoring for the Environmental Information and Education Center of Georgia
FINA IRP — Central Bank of Nigeria, National Bank of Georgia, Central Bank of Kosovo, Central Bank of Lesotho

Intern — System Integrator Jan 2018 – Mar 2018

Started as an intern learning system integration, cloud infrastructure, and database management.
Transitioned to a full-time role after 3 months.