
Taras Lytvyn
@taraslytvyn
QA / Test Automation Architect at Hitachi Engineering, building agentic AI testing pipelines for live Playwright projects.
What I'm looking for
At Hitachi Engineering, I architected a production agentic AI testing pipeline using Claude Code and AWS Bedrock on live customer Playwright projects. It generates test cases to support manual and automation testing.
I also built a hybrid-retrieval RAG knowledge base for QA and a similarity-graph visualizer for QA artefacts. I turned the DeviceSure embedded test framework into an AI-enhanced platform and shipped a new RAG Forge UI.
At OpenBet, I merged two legacy QA teams into one Core Tech QA unit and led a move from Java Selenium to WebDriverIO with BDD. I also launched a QA Guild and built an MCP server that generates test design artefacts.
At Haltia.ai, I owned end-to-end QA strategy for an on-device LLM assistant and built a CI pipeline combining DeepEval benchmarks, Patrol UI automation and real-time model validation. Automating ML evaluation alongside UI tests cut regression cycle time by 40%.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Designed and built an AI test-generation platform end to end, converting natural-language prompts into Playwright and Appium tests. Includes deterministic replay, self-healing AI, and MCP server integration.
AI Test Automation Solution Architect
Hitachi Engineering
Nov 2025 - Present (1 year)
Architected a production agentic AI testing pipeline using Claude Code and AWS Bedrock, and built a hybrid-retrieval RAG knowledge base for QA. Delivered agentic log-analysis and AI-powered Allure reporting widgets.
QA Architect / QA Manager
OpenBet
Feb 2025 - Oct 2025 (8 months)
Merged two legacy QA teams into one Core Tech QA unit and defined a RACI model. Led the move of front-end automation to WebDriverIO with BDD and scaled three automation streams.
Quality Engineering Manager
Haltia.ai
Mar 2024 - Feb 2025 (11 months)
Owned end-to-end QA strategy for an AI assistant, including voice recognition, NLP, and local LLM. Built a unified CI pipeline combining DeepEval LLM benchmark scoring and Patrol UI automation, cutting regression cycle time by 40%.
Led automation delivery for the EU region across 35+ enterprise clients including Microsoft, JP Morgan, Salesforce, and Slack. Grew revenue and profitability of EU automation services and designed a shared automation platform architecture.
Delivered cross-platform automation for mobile native, mobile web, desktop and smart TV using Perfecto Mobile.
Designed the automation framework for web, mobile and API with visual validation and advanced reporting. Delivered global synthetic monitoring with Neustar for near real-time payment latency detection.
Automation QA Manager
Mobymax
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018 (1 year 1 month)
Managed automation and manual QA, and built CI/CD automation for GitHub Flow with smoke and regression on pre-release. Implemented visual regression on production builds to reduce UI defects.
Led the automation team for Twilio Console and designed an extensible framework for twilio.com with daily visual and functional E2E regression. Built a Selenium broken-link crawler and real-time dashboards for leadership.
Built the company-wide AQA competency matrix, trainings and interview process. Created a reusable web/mobile framework and supported pre-sales.
QA Automation Engineer
Lohika
Jan 2011 - Dec 2014 (3 years 11 months)
Grew from junior to middle QA Automation Engineer across two product-engineering companies, building hands-on foundation for later architect and leadership roles.
Grew from junior to middle QA Automation Engineer across two product-engineering companies, building hands-on foundation for later architect and leadership roles.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
PhD Studies, Postgraduate Research
2010 - 2012
Postgraduate research (PhD studies) at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, with two scientific publications.
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Master of Science, Applied Mathematics and Informatics
2005 - 2010
MSc in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, completed in 2010.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Retrofit
Splunk
Selenium
WebdriverIO
BrowserStack
Sauce Labs
Selenide
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
GitLab CI
Flutter
Spring Boot
Spring
Applitools
Azure DevOps
Jira
JavaScript
Python
Java
Go
Rust
Appium
Gemini
TypeScript
Cucumber
TestNG
Docker
JBehave
Moon
ReportPortal
REST Assured
TestRail
LangChain
Playwright
CrewAI
Cursor
DeepEval
Llama.cpp
Maestro
Promptfoo
Patrol
Claude Code
AWS
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Salary expectations
Social media
Job categories
Skills
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