Tornike Kikalishvili

• Led the initiative to explore cutting-edge solutions for seamless cloud storage integration in Windows Explorer. • Collaborated with a lead developer to identify Microsoft’s Cloud Files API and WinUI 3 as the most promising solution. • Developed a high-level roadmap focusing on secure authentication, bi-directional synchronization, and enhanced encryption.

• Co-founded the QA Guild, enhancing collaboration and knowledge sharing among QA engineers. • Led the evaluation and selection process for a Jira QA plugin with BDD compatibility. • Provided expert advice and solutions to daily QA challenges. • Ensured QA strategies aligned with broader product objectives.

• Developed high-level yearly roadmap using Aha, balancing strategic features, maintenance, and customer requests. • Translated roadmap into detailed Epics and User Stories in Jira for iOS and Android teams. • Collaborated with remote development teams in a Scrum framework for timely feature delivery.

• Oversaw and maintained an extensive XCUITest suite for a native iOS application, ensuring robust testing coverage. • Utilized Swifter to mock network call responses, decoupling UI tests from backend dependencies for more complex test scenarios. • Managed and enhanced a CI pipeline using Fastlane and GitLab CI/CD to automate builds, execute comprehensive test suites, and deploy iOS apps to TestFlight.

• Developed automated UI tests using Espresso framework for a native Android application, enhancing testing efficiency. • Implemented network call response mocking to enable UI tests to run independently of network and backend dependencies. • Established a robust CI pipeline for Android applications from scratch, automating builds, test executions, and deployments. • Collaborated with colleagues from a remote location, utilizing agile methodologies and advanced communication tools.

• Established and maintained test suites in Azure DevOps for a WPF based Windows Desktop Application for Data Synchronization project. • Leveraged Ranorex to implement automated UI tests, enhancing early defect detection and project efficiency. • Integrated automated tests into Azure DevOps pipeline using PowerShell scripts for nightly executions, ensuring continuous testing.

Model-based testing of iOS application in agile environment • Conducted literature review and chose most suitable tool for modelling the system and test generation. • Used Graphwalker (tool chosen during literature review) for generating tests from models with different coverage criteria. • Ran generated tests against the real-world iOS application, created test report and compared with existing results. • Detected 10+ escaped bugs, which were missed during traditional testing process.

• Developed comprehensive test suites in Jira for WPF and Xamarin applications, documenting 700+ test cases to ensure reliable data synchronization and boost application stability. • Implemented Ranorex for automated UI testing, reducing manual regression testing efforts by 30% and ensuring consistent validations. • Automated deployment and test execution using PowerShell scripts in Microsoft TFS, transitioning to a CI/CD environment for unattended test executions.

Major: Software engineering Minor: Distributed systems Grade: 2.2 (Scale: Lowest 4.0 - Highest 1.0) Master Thesis: Model-Based Testing of iOS Application in Agile Environment

Grade: 2.1 (Scale: Lowest 1.0 - Highest 4.0)