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Georgii Kurtanidze

@georgiikurtanidze

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I build AI-driven test automation and CI/CD quality gates for complex fintech, enterprise, and AI-native platforms.

Italy

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to build AI-driven quality practices for complex software, combining hands-on automation, CI/CD quality gates, and reliable testing of APIs, web, mobile, device, and AI-agent workflows.

At Flamingo, I own end-to-end automation for OpenFrame’s AI-powered IT and security platform, covering APIs, embedded AI agents, and headless macOS and Windows device clients. I introduced AI-based test selection that cut PR validation from 30 minutes to 3 minutes and built monitoring across 400+ environments and 5,000+ devices.

I’ve spent 20 years building automation for fintech, banking, enterprise, web, mobile, and AI-native products. I work hands-on with Java, TypeScript, Python, CI/CD quality gates, and multi-layered testing, after previously leading automation organizations of more than 100 engineers at Ciklum.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Software Development Engineer in Test

Current

Flamingo

Jan 2026 - Present (8 months)

Own end-to-end test automation for an AI-native platform, including platform APIs, embedded AI agents, and headless device-fleet clients. Introduced AI-based test selection cutting PR validation time from 30 to 3 minutes.

Java Spring Boot Rest Assured Lang Chain Sshj Claude CI CD MacOS Windows

Software Development Engineer in Test

Trend Capital Holdings, Inc.

Jan 2025 - Oct 2025 (9 months)

Built and maintained end-to-end test automation for web and mobile platforms, improving release reliability and shortening validation cycles in CI/CD.

NodeJS TypeScript Playwright WebdriverIO Appium Mocha GitLab CI CD BrowserStack Pino Graylog Slack

Independent Consultant (Test Automation & Quality)

Self-employed

May 2024 - Dec 2024 (7 months)

Provided independent consulting services in test automation and quality.

Software Development Engineer in Test

Virtido

Sep 2023 - Apr 2024 (7 months)

Owned design and implementation of test automation for two large-scale web applications, raising coverage and CI/CD integration to speed up delivery and reduce manual regression.

JavaScript TypeScript Playwright Mocha Jest Got Allure Docker Jenkins GitLab CI CD AWS

Test Automation Expert

TBC

Mar 2022 - Aug 2023 (1 year 5 months)

Drove the transformation of the testing lifecycle across core banking and mobile ecosystems, building scalable automation and aligning SDLC practice with Agile and DevOps.

Java TestNG Rest Assured OpenAPI Generator Selenium Appium Espresso XCUITest Azure DevOps

Test Manager / SDET

Buffer Group

Aug 2020 - Feb 2022 (1 year 6 months)

Dual role combining hands-on automation engineering with leadership of a 20-engineer automation team across several concurrent projects.

Python Java Pytest TestNG Cucumber Behave Rest Assured requests AWS Lambda S3 Zephyr Enterprise TestRail

Head of Testing Center of Excellence

Ciklum

Dec 2014 - Jun 2020 (5 years 6 months)

Progressed from QA Manager to Head of Testing CoE (100+ engineers) while staying hands-on in automation architecture for fintech, retail and telecom clients.