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TestGuild Automation Podcast

TestGuild Automation Podcast (formally Test Talks) is a weekly podcast hosted by Joe Colantonio, which geeks out on all things software test automation. TestGuild Automation covers news found in the testing space, reviews books about automation, and speaks with some of the thought leaders in the test automation field. We"ll aim to interview some of today"s most successful and inspiring software engineers, and test automation thought leaders.

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36:02

Locust and Azure Load Testing: Create and Debug Load...

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2026/10/06

Performance testing has never been easier to start, or more important to get right. As teams ship more AI generated code, performance problems are slipping through, and they tend to surface during your highest traffic moments. In this episode, Joe Colantonio talks with Lars Holmberg, lead maintainer of the open source Locust project, and Abhinav Premsekhar of Microsoft's Azure App Testing team. They explain how AI is changing load testing, from script creation to results analysis. You'll see live

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40:57

AI Agents Passed the Tests. Real Devices Didn't. with...

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2026/09/29

Cloud device farms make it easy to get started with real device testing. But what happens when you need to scale? Costs climb fast, you wait in a queue for the devices you need, and you lose visibility into what's actually happening when a test fails. In this episode, Nick Metcalfe, Head of Technical Sales Engineering at Cambrionix, joins Joe to explain why more testing teams are bringing their device labs in house. Nick shares how one team was quoted roughly a million dollars a month to outsource

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29:33

AI Testing Reality Check: What 13 Founders Refuse to...

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2026/09/22

I asked thirteen people inside AI testing one question: can AI test your software for you? Founders, CTOs, project leads, and quality leaders, many of them selling AI testing tools right now. Not one said yes. This episode is my session from the Testear.la 2026 conference, built entirely from twelve months of interviews on this show with the people actually building this technology, including Applitools, Maestro, Bright Security, QA.tech, Cucumber, Ito, and the lead of the Selenium project. In it

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34:04

How to Stay Irreplaceable When Agents Write Your...

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2026/09/15

Is AI going to replace software testers, or make them more valuable than they have ever been? Jonathon Wright says both, and in this episode he does not back down from either position. Jonathon Wright has spent thirty years in test automation, going all the way back to WinRunner. He now runs thirty AI agents across twelve screens, he sat with Gartner for their research on agentic platforms, and he says the last six months changed the job more than the previous three decades combined. We get into

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43:34

AI Performance Testing: How to Scale Agentic AI with...

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2026/09/08

Everything you knew about performance testing changes when the system you're testing is non deterministic. In this episode of the TestGuild Automation Podcast, Joe Colantonio sits down with Kandasamy Selvaraj, Principal Architect and author of the free book Rethinking Performance Engineering for Agentic AI, to unpack what it really takes to move an AI agent from a working demo to an enterprise system handling millions of conversations per hour. Checkout his free

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38:21

AI Testing Is Bigger Than You Think, 5 Areas Testers...

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2026/09/01

Most testers are stuck arguing about whether AI is coming for their jobs. Swati Seela thinks that's a distraction from a much more useful question: when we say "AI testing," what do we actually mean? What do you think? Take our TestGuild State of Test Automation Survey now: https://testgld.link/27data In this episode, Swati walks through the AI Testing Landscape, a practical framework she presented at CAST 2026 that breaks AI testing into five overlapping areas: AI assisted testing, AI evaluation

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35:46

Why IoT Testing Proves Manual Testing Never Died with...

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2026/08/18

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, flashing a sketch, validating that a physical command produced the right change in a dashboard widget, and

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53:20

Testing AI: Engineering Confidence in...

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2026/08/12

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 thinning out. Product, development, and test roles are converging into one. And when the music stops, the only

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38:03

Playwright With AI: How to Automate Tests Without...

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2026/08/04

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 coding agents, spec driven development, and Playwright. You will discover: How Playwright turned itself

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45:26

Test Automation Won't Save Your QA Career, but These...

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2026/07/28

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 Engineering" isn't what you think The difference between checking and testing Will AI replace software

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36:43

AI Testing Strategy: Stop Being a Cost Center, Start...

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2026/07/22

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. We get into: How she frames quality metrics for executives Using language around revenue protection

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39:48

How to Move from Prompt Engineering to Harness...

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2026/07/14

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 the term "software factory," where the rule was simple: humans never write the code, never read the code

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43:30

Agentic Engineering for Testers: How to Automate Your...

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2026/07/07

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 agents at a high level, starting with why the planning phase matters more than the prompt itself. Amit

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23:22

How to Test Any API Without Documentation with Liudas...

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2026/06/30

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 testing APIs since 2008. Liudas demonstrates Rentgen, his free and open-source API testing tool, live on

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36:12

Your AI Code Review Is Lying to You (Here's the Fix)...

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2026/06/23

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 applied cryptography securing hundreds of millions of dollars for millions of people. Evan is taking that

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34:37

AI QA Agents Explained: How Amikoo Helps Testers with...

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2026/06/16

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 test automation platform built on symbolic reasoning and expert systems. After six years and thousands of

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16:05

The AI Illusion: Why Testing Still Needs Humans with...

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2026/06/09

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's book Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, Wayne Roseberry's work on AI and

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35:23

AI Agents in QA: How to Keep Up with AI-Driven Dev...

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2026/06/02

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 reshaping software testing from the ground up. Vilhelm brings serious ML credibility, he helped build

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38:10

Maestro MCP, AI Mobile Testing That Fixes Its Own...

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2026/05/19

What happens when AI agents can not only write mobile app code, but also validate their own work automatically? In this episode, I sit down with Maestro Co-founder and CEO Leland Takamine to explore one of the biggest shifts happening in software testing right now: agentic mobile testing. Leland shares how his team went from solving mobile performance testing challenges to building one of the fastest-growing mobile automation frameworks used by companies like Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and DoorDash

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38:39

AI Testing Costs, How to Prevent Runaway Token Bills...

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2026/05/12

AI-powered testing tools are exploding across software engineering teams… but so are the hidden costs. In this episode, Joe sits down with Arthur Hicken to unpack the growing problem of runaway AI token usage, unexpected LLM billing, and the operational risks of deploying AI agents into testing and DevOps pipelines. Inspired by Arthur's article on the emerging "Token Tax," this conversation explores why many teams are underestimating the true cost of AI automation. You'll learn: Why AI-generated

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