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- Leading QA technical strategy, driving automation standards, and hosting chapter syncs to align testing practices.
- Designing and scaling AI-native automation workflows utilizing custom skills, rules, specialized agents, and hooks.
- Integrating AI-powered quality gates into CI/CD pipelines to optimize test execution, review, and feedback loops.
- Bootstrapping and architecting the mobile test

- Building and maintaining Playwright end-to-end test automation
- Designing reusable test architecture and improving QA reliability
- Implementing AI agentic workflows with Claude Code for planning, code generation, review, and verification
- Automating internal processes and integrations with n8n
- Improving CI/CD quality gates, reporting, and notification flows
- Supporting better test coverage

- Own end‑to‑end manual testing for a large‑scale WealthTech platform with Admin and Advisor portals: covering onboarding, portfolio management, transactions, and reporting flows
- Validate complex financial calculations, including money‑weighted rate of return (MWRR), accruals, fee/interest schedules, and portfolio performance rollups across multiple accounts and date ranges
- Write advanced Post

- Managed 2–3 projects in parallel; aligned testing scope and timelines for on‑time delivery
- Built Playwright/Magnitude automated checks to accelerate regression cycles and increase coverage
- Drove test planning, strategy and defect triage;
- Presented product demos to US clients
- Mentored 20+ QA students in collaboration with GITA, improving hiring‑readiness and fundamentals
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- Prepared students for ISTQB (CTFL) and taught API testing + SQL basics with hands‑on labs
- Built & delivered course materials, practical assignments, and mentored real‑world QA projects

- Led the QA function; hired, coached, and ran weekly training to level up the team
- Standardized API testing workflows (Swagger) and introduced review gates for test cases.
- Translated Hotjar findings into actionable UI/UX refinements to reduce friction and improve conversions
- Developed Test plan/strategy/bug templates from scratch
- Pushed back on improving QA processes and testing environm

- Planned, authored, and executed manual test cases in Zephyr across the SDLC
- Performed backend (PL/SQL) and API testing; ensured data integrity and service reliability
- Ran compatibility testing on BrowserStack; owned localization testing (EN/RU/GE)
- Benchmarked competitors (e.g., TBC Bank) to improve UI/UX and functionality
- Collaborated with devs & product owners on sprints; refined accept

Worked as Application Support Specialist at Bank of Georgia.

Mar 2023

Dec 2022