# Taras Lytvyn Taras Lytvyn is a remote worker on Himalayas, AI Automation Studio Product Owner at Applause, based in Poland. Source: https://himalayas.app/@taraslytvyn ```text QA / Test Automation Architect at Hitachi Engineering, building agentic AI testing pipelines for live Playwright projects. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | Poland | | Authorized to work in | Poland | | Salary expectations | 85k+ USD | | Job categories | Test Automation Architect, Head Of QA, QA Director, QA Manager, AI Quality Lead, AI Testing Lead, SDET, Lead Quality Engineer | | Skills | QA Strategy, Test Automation Architecture, AI Driven QA, AI Agent Testing, LLM Evaluation, Test Case Generation, RAG, Quality Engineering, Testing Automation, SDET, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, WebdriverIO, Java | | LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/ltaras | ## What I'm looking for ```text I'm targeting QA / Test Automation Architect, Head of QA, QA Director or Manager, AI QA / AI Test Automation Lead, Principal SDET, and Quality Engineering Lead roles. I'm looking for remote-first work with EU and US-East overlap, on a B2B contract or EOR, full-time. ``` ## About ```text 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 ### AI Automation Studio Product Owner (current) [Applause](https://himalayas.app/companies/applause-com). Apr 2026 - Present ```text 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. ``` Skills: AI, Test-Case-Generation, Playwright, Appium, MCP, Claude-Code, BrowserStack, CI-CD ### AI Test Automation Solution Architect (current) Hitachi Engineering. Nov 2025 - Present ```text 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. ``` Skills: Python, TypeScript, Java, Playwright, Appium, Claude-Code, AWS, Vertex-AI, Gemini, MCP, ChromaDB, Gitlab-CI, Allure-3, VLM ### QA Architect / QA Manager OpenBet. Feb 2025 - Oct 2025 ```text 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. ``` Skills: Java, Spring-Framework, TypeScript, WebdriverIO, Cucumber, BrowserStack, Jenkins, TestRail, Testomat.Io, Allure, MCP ### Quality Engineering Manager Haltia.ai. Mar 2024 - Feb 2025 ```text 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%. ``` Skills: Python, Go, Rust, LLamacpp, DeepEval, Lang-Chain, Flutter, Patrol ### Head of Automation QA Delivery (EU) [Applause](https://himalayas.app/companies/applause-com). Sep 2020 - Feb 2024 ```text 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. ``` Skills: Java, Python, Selenium, Appium, Playwright, TestNG, Cucumber, Jenkins, GitHub-Actions, BrowserStack, Sauce-Labs, Headspin, ReportPortal ### Automation Consultant Lynk & Co. Sep 2021 - Mar 2022 ```text Provided scalable web, mobile-web, and API automation architecture on Azure and Selenoid Moon. Delivered POC framework and onsite coaching in Volvo's Gothenburg office. ``` Skills: Java, Selenide, TestNG, Azure, Selenoid, Moon ### Automation Consultant [Testlio](https://himalayas.app/companies/testlio). Mar 2020 - Nov 2020 ```text Delivered cross-platform automation for mobile native, mobile web, desktop and smart TV using Perfecto Mobile. ``` Skills: Mobile-Automation, Web-Automation, Smart-TV, Perfecto-Mobile ### Automation QA Consultant & QA Tech Lead [Mastercard](https://himalayas.app/companies/mastercard). Aug 2018 - Jul 2020 ```text 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. ``` Skills: Java, Spring-Boot, Selenide, Appium, JBehave, TestNG, Allure, Jenkins, Perfecto, Applitools, Splunk ### Automation QA Manager Mobymax. Aug 2017 - Sep 2018 ```text 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. ``` Skills: Java, Selenide, Retrofit, Allure, Jenkins, Moon, Visual-Regression-Testing ### Automation QA Lead [Twilio](https://himalayas.app/companies/twilio). Apr 2015 - Jul 2017 ```text 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. ``` Skills: Java, Selenium, Rest-Assured, Docker, Sauce-Labs, Applitools, Allure ### Automation QA Competence Manager [Eleks](https://himalayas.app/companies/eleks). Aug 2014 - Apr 2015 ```text Built the company-wide AQA competency matrix, trainings and interview process. Created a reusable web/mobile framework and supported pre-sales. ``` Skills: Testing-Automation, QA-Strategy, Framework-Design, Pre-Sales ### QA Automation Engineer Lohika. Jan 2011 - Dec 2014 ```text Grew from junior to middle QA Automation Engineer across two product-engineering companies, building hands-on foundation for later architect and leadership roles. ``` Skills: Testing-Automation, QA-Engineering ### QA Automation Engineer [GlobalLogic](https://himalayas.app/companies/globallogic). Jan 2011 - Dec 2014 ```text Grew from junior to middle QA Automation Engineer across two product-engineering companies, building hands-on foundation for later architect and leadership roles. ``` Skills: Testing-Automation, QA-Engineering ## Education ### Ivan Franko National University of Lviv PhD Studies, Postgraduate Research. 2010 - 2012 ```text 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 ```text MSc in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, completed in 2010. ``` ## Tech stack - 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 To contact Taras, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Maks Bahr](https://himalayas.app/@maksbahr): Tech Lead Quality Engineer, Spyrosoft S.A. - [Ilia Kirpichniy](https://himalayas.app/@iliakirpichniy): QA Automation Engineer, Interact Software - [Artem Aksani](https://himalayas.app/@artemaksani): Senior QA Automation Engineer, Relevant Software - [Anna Klueva](https://himalayas.app/@annaklueva): Senior QA Automation Engineer, Coforge - [Serhii Potapov](https://himalayas.app/@serhiipotapov): Senior QA Automation Engineer, Nordea Bank - [Krzysiek Derezinski](https://himalayas.app/@krzysiekderezinski): Quality Assurance Automation Engineer, Twindo - [Aliaksandr Novik](https://himalayas.app/@aliaksandrnovik): Lead Software Test Automation Engineer, Novo Nordisk - [Vladimir Shvets](https://himalayas.app/@vladimirshvets): QA Automation Lead, Product Company (Under NDA) - [Daniel Grzybowski](https://himalayas.app/@danielgrzybowski): Senior SDET, Apollo.io - [Michał Kochański](https://himalayas.app/@michakochaski): Lead Test Automation Engineer & Test Manager, Newfire Global Partners