# Georgii Kurtanidze

Georgii Kurtanidze is a remote worker on Himalayas, Software Development Engineer in Test at Flamingo, based in Italy.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@georgiikurtanidze

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I build AI-driven test automation and CI/CD quality gates for complex fintech, enterprise, and AI-native platforms.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Italy |
| Authorized to work in | Italy |
| Salary expectations | 60k+ EUR |
| Job categories | Software Engineer in Test, Automation Testing, Quality Assurance Engineer, Test Manager, QA Manager |
| Skills | Testing Automation, API Testing, Web Testing, Mobile Testing, End To End Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Microservices Testing, Device Level Automation, AI Driven Testing, LLM Testing, Lang Chain, Claude, Java, Spring Boot, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, NodeJS, Rest Assured, Playwright, WebdriverIO, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Postman, TestNG, Mocha, Jest, Pytest, Cucumber, Behave, Sshj, OpenAPI Generator, Espresso, XCUITest, requests, BDD, Framework Design, Test Data Generation, Automated Test Development, CI CD, Gitlab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, TeamCity, AWS, AWS Lambda, S3, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, VMWare, BrowserStack, Allure, ELK, Pino, Graylog, TestRail, Zephyr, Slack, Git, Jira, Confluence, Agile, DevOps, Quality Strategy, Technical Leadership, Mentorship, Technical Interviewing |
| Portfolio | https://github.com/giokur |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/georgekurtanidze |
| GitHub | https://github.com/giokur |

## What I'm looking for

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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.
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## About

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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.
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## Experience

### Software Development Engineer in Test (current)

Flamingo. Jan 2026 - Present

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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.
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Skills: 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

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Built and maintained end-to-end test automation for web and mobile platforms, improving release reliability and shortening validation cycles in CI/CD.
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Skills: NodeJS, TypeScript, Playwright, WebdriverIO, Appium, Mocha, GitLab-CI-CD, BrowserStack, Pino, Graylog, Slack

### Independent Consultant (Test Automation & Quality)

Self-employed. May 2024 - Dec 2024

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Provided independent consulting services in test automation and quality.
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### Software Development Engineer in Test

Virtido. Sep 2023 - Apr 2024

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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.
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Skills: JavaScript, TypeScript, Playwright, Mocha, Jest, Got, Allure, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab-CI-CD, AWS

### Test Automation Expert

TBC. Mar 2022 - Aug 2023

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Drove the transformation of the testing lifecycle across core banking and mobile ecosystems, building scalable automation and aligning SDLC practice with Agile and DevOps.
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Skills: Java, TestNG, Rest-Assured, OpenAPI-Generator, Selenium, Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, Azure-DevOps

### Test Manager / SDET

Buffer Group. Aug 2020 - Feb 2022

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Dual role combining hands-on automation engineering with leadership of a 20-engineer automation team across several concurrent projects.
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Skills: Python, Java, Pytest, TestNG, Cucumber, Behave, Rest-Assured, requests, AWS-Lambda, S3, Zephyr-Enterprise, TestRail

### Head of Testing Center of Excellence

[Ciklum](https://himalayas.app/companies/description-ciklum). Dec 2014 - Jun 2020

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Progressed from QA Manager to Head of Testing CoE (100+ engineers) while staying hands-on in automation architecture for fintech, retail and telecom clients.
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Skills: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Appium, Rest-Assured, Cucumber, TestNG, Jenkins, Git, AWS, Postman, Jira, Confluence

### Senior QA

PAREXEL. Apr 2012 - Dec 2014

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Senior QA role at PAREXEL.
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### Product QA Lead

Auditdata. May 2010 - Apr 2012

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Product QA Lead at Auditdata.
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### Senior Automation QA

Infopulse. Feb 2005 - May 2007

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Senior Automation QA at Infopulse.
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### Manual QA

[GlobalLogic](https://himalayas.app/companies/globallogic). Sep 2004 - Feb 2005

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Manual QA at GlobalLogic.
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## Education

### Cherkasy National University

Master of Computer Applications, Computer Applications. 1998 - 2003

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Pursued a Master of Computer Applications degree at Cherkasy National University from 1998 to 2003.
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## Tech stack

- Postman
- Selenium
- WebdriverIO
- BrowserStack
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- GitLab CI
- Node.js
- Spring Boot
- Slack
- Azure DevOps
- Jira
- Jest
- Cypress
- Mocha
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- ELK
- Graylog
- Appium
- Confluence
- AWS Lambda
- TypeScript
- pytest
- Cucumber
- TestNG
- behave
- Git
- Docker
- REST Assured
- TeamCity
- Espresso
- TestRail
- LangChain
- Playwright
- OpenAPI Generator
- Pino

To contact Georgii, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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