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Nazarii Shportun

QA Automation Engineer & Researcher  ·  AI · LLMs · AWS  ·  Canada  ·  Ukraine

I'm a QA Automation Engineer and researcher with expertise in AI-driven test systems, large language models (LLMs), vector search, and cloud infrastructure on AWS. Currently working as QE Engineer at Resolver Inc. (Kroll) in Toronto, Canada, where I lead software quality engineering and AI-assisted automation research.

I am a co-author of a Springer Nature book chapter on data-centric AI for psychological support, indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. My research interests span intelligent test automation, LLM integration in enterprise software, and cloud-native QA pipelines. I hold AWS certifications and I am a member of the IEEE Foundation.

Experience

Jul 2022 – now
QE Engineer Resolver Inc. (Kroll)  ·  Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Development / Software Quality Assurance. Leading QA automation strategy and AI-assisted testing research. Internal research project on AI-Assisted QA Automation (2025).

Projects

Open project
Mental450 AI-powered mental health support platform focused on combat veterans and soldiers

Designed and developed an AI-powered platform for mental health support with an emphasis on accessibility, guided assistance, and support resources tailored to veterans and active-duty service members.

GitHub  ·  Live demo

Open project
BestTester Production-grade Playwright + TypeScript QA framework with AI-powered testing and LLM-as-Judge evaluation

A zero-config, plug-and-play end-to-end testing framework featuring 7 CLI agents, AWS Bedrock LLM-as-Judge scoring, semantic assertions, hallucination detection, AI locator fallback, MCP server integration, security fuzzing (OWASP ZAP), mutation testing (Stryker), multi-role auth matrix, i18n, accessibility, and CI/CD pipelines with Jira sync and Slack reporting.

GitHub

Education

2010 – 2013
Master's Degree, Accounting and Audit Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University  ·  Bila Tserkva, Ukraine

Department of Economics and Finance

2007 – 2010
Specialist Degree State University of Trade and Economics  ·  Kyiv, Ukraine

Vinnytsia College of Trade and Economics of Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics  ·  vtec.vn.ua

Publications

Jan 16, 2026
Data-Centric Innovations for Psychological Support: Integrating LLMs and Vector Search in Professional Web Applications

Nazarii Shportun et al.  ·  Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, Springer Nature  ·  2026

Peer Reviews

Apr 5, 2026
Development Of A Procedure For Comparison Of Methods For Selecting The Optimal Architectural Variation Of Command Query Responsibility Segregation With Event Sourcing Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies  ·  ISSN: 1729-4061

Verified peer review  ·  WoS Record ↗  ·  Publons ↗

Mar 23, 2026
Development of a Method for Optimizing the Internal Structure of Websites Based on the Analysis of the Similarity of DOM Structures Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies  ·  ISSN: 1729-4061

Verified peer review  ·  WoS Record ↗

Certifications & Distinctions

Feb 2026
AWS Certified AI Practitioner Amazon Web Services  ·  Credly
Oct 2025
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Amazon Web Services  ·  Credly
Nov 2020
WES Verified International Qualifications World Education Services  ·  Credly
Jun 2019
CrossFit Level 1 Trainer CrossFit, Inc.  ·  Issued Jun 16, 2019  ·  Expired Jun 16, 2024

Memberships

2026 – 2037
Member IEEE Foundation  ·  Piscataway, NJ, USA
2025 – 2026
Invited Contributing Author Springer Nature, Berlin, Germany

Chapter contribution to Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies. springer.com ↗

Interests

Oct 2019
Bank of America Chicago Marathon 2019 Bib #54051  ·  Division: Men 25–29  ·  Finish time: 4:46:07
CrossFit
CrossFit Games Profile Athlete #938985  ·  CrossFit Open participant