Your QA Automation May Be Stuck at Stage Three

02 Nov 2026

Your team has moved beyond manual testing. You’ve built reusable tests, and perhaps even removed the need to write scripts. Yet every application change still creates another round of test maintenance.

ACCELQ’s guide lays out five stages of QA automation, from scripts to agentic testing. The useful part is spotting where your team is today and what still depends on someone stepping in to keep the suite running.

Which stage sounds familiar?

Find your team’s stage and see what changes next.
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Guljeet Nagpaul
Chief Product & Strategy

Guljeet Nagpaul is the Chief of Product and Strategy at ACCELQ, driving product vision and market strategy. With over two decades in enterprise software, he previously led the North American ALM practice at Mercury Interactive during its peak growth and acquisition by HP.

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