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TestGuild Automation Podcast

TestGuild Automation Podcast

Joe Colantonio 595 Episodes Aug 18, 2026

TestGuild Automation Podcast is a weekly show hosted by Joe Colantonio that delves into software test automation. It covers the latest news in testing, reviews books on automation, and features interviews with industry thought leaders. The podcast aims to share insights from successful software engineers and automation experts.

Episodes

Why IoT Testing Proves Manual Testing Never Died with Oleksii Cherkashyn
Why IoT Testing Proves Manual Testing Never Died with Oleksii Cherkashyn Aug 18, 2026 35:46 Manual testing never died. IoT is the proof. In this episode, Joe Colantonio talks with Oleksii Cherkashyn, a QA team lead, automation engineer, and IoT testing specialist who built a complete test architecture from scratch across hardware, firmware, mobile, web, and API. IoT breaks the usual automation playbook. You are not testing a shopping cart. You are connecting a real microcontroller, flash
Testing AI: Engineering Confidence in Non-Deterministic Systems with Jason Arbon
Testing AI: Engineering Confidence in Non-Deterministic Systems with Jason Arbon Aug 12, 2026 53:20 In this episode 600 of the TestGuild Automation Podcast, Joe Colantonio talks with Jason Arbon, founder of Testers.ai, Jank.AI and IcebergQA and author of the new book Testing AI: Engineering Confidence in Non-Deterministic Systems. Take Our 2027 Survey Now: https://testgld.link/27data Jason makes a case most testers have not heard yet. Coding is being absorbed by AI. Specification work is thinnin
Playwright With AI: How to Automate Tests Without Shipping AI Slop with Andrew Knight
Playwright With AI: How to Automate Tests Without Shipping AI Slop with Andrew Knight Aug 4, 2026 38:03 Your developers just got supercharged by AI coding agents. Your test coverage did not. So how do you keep quality high when product code is shipping faster than any test team can follow? In this episode Andrew Knight, the Automation Panda and Senior Director of Product and Engineering at Cycle Labs, shares how his six person team is running the biggest release quarter in company history using AI c
Test Automation Won't Save Your QA Career, but These Skills Will with Keith Klain
Test Automation Won't Save Your QA Career, but These Skills Will with Keith Klain Jul 28, 2026 45:26 Keith Klain has spent 25+ years leading enterprise quality programs in financial services and is one of the testing industry's most respected voices. In this episode, he joins Joe to discuss his BrowserStack talk, "The Death of Test Engineering," why testing isn't dying—but outdated testing roles are—and how AI is reshaping the future of software quality. In this episode: Why "The Death of Test E
AI Testing Strategy: Stop Being a Cost Center, Start Protecting Revenue with Nandini Srinivasan
AI Testing Strategy: Stop Being a Cost Center, Start Protecting Revenue with Nandini Srinivasan Jul 22, 2026 36:43 Nandini Srinivasan has spent 25 years in the quality industry and leads a global QA organization of over 150 engineers across the US, Canada, India, and Pakistan. In this episode, she breaks down exactly how she built a QA AI acceleration charter, ran a train-the-trainer model, and used a phased proof-of-concept approach to separate real AI from what she calls "powerful automation dressed up as AI
How to Move from Prompt Engineering to Harness Engineering in Testing with Matt Wynne
How to Move from Prompt Engineering to Harness Engineering in Testing with Matt Wynne Jul 14, 2026 39:48 Matt Wynne, co-creator of Cucumber and BDD practitioner, joins Joe for the first time in over a decade to talk about what two years inside a Silicon Valley AI startup taught him about the future of software testing. Matt spent time at Mechanical Orchard working alongside experienced XP practitioners to modernize legacy COBOL mainframes using LLMs, and then spent a week with the team that coined th
Agentic Engineering for Testers: How to Automate Your Way to the Top with Amit Rawat
Agentic Engineering for Testers: How to Automate Your Way to the Top with Amit Rawat Jul 7, 2026 43:30 Amit Rawat is an agentic engineer who spent two decades in QA before shifting fully into building AI agents. He's the creator of PromptWright, a desktop tool that turns natural language prompts into automated Playwright browser tests, complete with screen recording, Gherkin scenario generation, and self-healing locators. In this episode, Amit and Joe get into what it actually takes to work with AI
How to Test Any API Without Documentation with Liudas Jankauskas
How to Test Any API Without Documentation with Liudas Jankauskas Jun 30, 2026 23:22 Most API testing stops at the happy path. The problem is that the bugs that actually hurt you in production are sitting in everything many testers skip, like the boundary values, the oversized payloads, the missing tokens, the security headers, the inputs that make no sense at all. In this episode, Joe sits down with Liudas Jankauskas, who has spent almost twenty years breaking software and testin
Your AI Code Review Is Lying to You (Here's the Fix) with Evan Marshall
Your AI Code Review Is Lying to You (Here's the Fix) with Evan Marshall Jun 23, 2026 36:12 Your AI code review tools read the diff. They stare at your code. But they never actually run it. So the bugs that only show up at runtime, the broken user flows, the bad query plan, the duplicate submission, sail right past review and land in front of your customers. In this episode, Joe Colantonio sits down with Evan Marshall, founder of Ito and a fifteen year engineer who spent five years in ap
AI QA Agents Explained: How Amikoo Helps Testers with Ivan Barajas Vargas
AI QA Agents Explained: How Amikoo Helps Testers with Ivan Barajas Vargas Jun 16, 2026 34:37 What happens to QA when AI is writing ten times more code than your team can test? That is the exact problem Ivan Barajas Vargas set out to solve with Amikoo, a purpose-built AI QA agent designed to help testers, SDETs, and even developers move faster without sacrificing coverage or quality. Ivan is no stranger to AI in testing. Before generative AI became mainstream, he co-founded MuukTest, a tes
The AI Illusion: Why Testing Still Needs Humans with Joe Colantonio
The AI Illusion: Why Testing Still Needs Humans with Joe Colantonio Jun 9, 2026 16:05 Everyone is talking about AI replacing testers, writing tests, and transforming software quality. But what if we're asking the wrong question? In this solo episode, Joe Colantonio shares a growing concern he's seen while traveling across the country for TestGuild IRL events: a decline in testing fundamentals at the exact moment AI hype is reaching a fever pitch. Drawing insights from Carissa Véliz
AI Agents in QA: How to Keep Up with AI-Driven Dev Velocity with Vilhelm von Ehrenheim
AI Agents in QA: How to Keep Up with AI-Driven Dev Velocity with Vilhelm von Ehrenheim Jun 2, 2026 35:23 AI coding tools promised to make development faster — and they delivered. But here's the problem nobody talks about enough: when you speed up coding, you don't eliminate the bottleneck in the SDLC. You just move it. And for most teams, it lands squarely in QA. In this episode, Joe sits down with Vilhelm von Ehrenheim, Co-founder and Chief AI Officer of QA.tech, to dig into how agentic AI is reshap

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