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Six roles. One throughline: making QA scale.

From PL/SQL backend testing at Bank of Georgia to AI-assisted automation at eTeacher Group.

  1. Senior QA Automation Engineer

    eTeacher Group
    current
    Mar 2026 - Present Israel (Remote)
    • >Building and maintaining a Playwright TypeScript test automation framework with custom fixtures and reusable components.
    • >Designing test architecture enabling team-wide contribution and reliable regression at scale.
    • >Improving CI/CD quality gates, failure thresholds, and notification flows for actionable pipeline feedback.
    • >Implementing AI agentic workflows with Claude Code for planning, code generation, and automated review.
    • >Automating internal QA processes and integrations with n8n.
    PlaywrightTypeScriptCI/CDClaude Coden8n

  2. Senior Consultant - QA

    StatusNeo
    Oct 2025 - Apr 2026 United Arab Emirates (Remote)
    • >Owned end-to-end testing for a large-scale WealthTech platform: onboarding, portfolio management, transactions, reporting.
    • >Tested REST API and GraphQL queries/mutations: schema contracts, authorization scopes, payload integrity, error handling.
    • >Wrote advanced PostgreSQL queries to reconcile positions, cash movements, and financial calculation results.
    • >Used Kubernetes daily for pod management, log retrieval, and defect root-cause triage.
    • >Defined risk-based regression scopes per release; documented reproducible steps and acceptance criteria.
    WealthTechGraphQLPostgreSQLKubernetesREST API

  3. QA Engineer

    Lineate
    Sep 2024 - Oct 2025 Tbilisi, Georgia
    • >Owned test strategy across 2-3 concurrent client projects; aligned scope, timelines, and regression coverage.
    • >Built Playwright automated test suites to accelerate regression cycles and increase coverage.
    • >Mentored 20+ junior QA engineers on automation best practices in collaboration with GITA.
    • >Drove defect triage, risk-based regression scoping, and release documentation per cycle.
    • >Presented product demos to US clients.
    PlaywrightMentoringTest StrategyMulti-project

  4. Head of Quality Assurance

    STORI AI
    Jan 2024 - Sep 2024 Tbilisi, Georgia
    • >Built and led the QA function from scratch; hired, coached, and ran weekly training sessions.
    • >Developed test plans, test strategy, and bug templates from scratch; standardized API testing workflows.
    • >Introduced review gates for test cases; conducted technical interviews to improve hiring quality.
    QA LeadershipHiringAPI TestingAI Products

  5. QA Lecturer

    Digital Institute
    Jan 2024 - Sep 2024 Tbilisi, Georgia
    • >Prepared students for ISTQB (CTFL) certification.
    • >Taught API testing and SQL with hands-on labs.
    ISTQB CTFLAPI TestingSQLTeaching

  6. Software Quality Assurance Engineer

    Bank of Georgia
    Jan 2021 - Jan 2024 Tbilisi, Georgia
    • >Planned, authored, and executed test cases in Jira/Zephyr across full SDLC.
    • >Performed PL/SQL backend and REST API testing; ensured data integrity and service reliability.
    • >Ran compatibility testing (BrowserStack); owned localization testing (EN/RU/GE).
    • >Led functional, smoke, sanity, acceptance, and regression testing across 3 projects (Web, Mobile, Desktop).
    Jira/ZephyrPL/SQLBrowserStackLocalization