Talk Description
In this talk, Jaswanth Manigundan shares a practical view of how AI and the Playwright MCP server can support day to day web testing. He draws on his experience as a tester, automation engineer, and engineering manager to show how these tools can be used as helpers rather than replacements for human thinking.
Jaswanth starts by grounding the session in familiar testing practices, such as exploratory testing and traditional automation with tools like Selenium and Playwright. From there, he introduces AI agents and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), explaining them in simple terms and cutting through the hype. He frames AI as a set of tools that can speed up work, reduce setup effort, and help testers learn faster, not as something that magically does testing for you.
The talk includes hands on demonstrations using Playwright MCP inside an editor. Jaswanth shows how AI can automate browser actions, explore a web application, suggest test ideas, generate a starting test plan, and help set up a Playwright project from scratch. He also walks through using AI to write and run automated tests, inspect failures, and review Playwright reports and traces.
Throughout the session, Jaswanth emphasises the importance of context, judgement, and ownership. He explains why testers should stay in control of test strategy and architecture, and how AI works best as a collaborative assistant that handles repetitive or setup tasks. He also discusses where these approaches fit alongside other testing types, tools, and frameworks.
By the end of the talk, you will understand what Playwright MCP is, how AI agents can support web testing workflows, and how to use these tools responsibly to learn faster, work more efficiently, and focus on the thinking that really matters in testing.
I am a lead test automation engineer working as a part of the QE practice at Culture Amp led by the legendary Anne-Marie Charret.
I'm a developer turned tester. Even though writing code to build applications is so much fun, my now best friend showed me a few years ago that helping write good quality apps is much more fun. I jumped into testing from being a developer and have never looked back. I'm very passionate about native testing frameworks for web, backend, infra and mobile platforms
CI/CD is something I am very passionate about. On the web side of things, AWS CDK has been quite intriguing. I have been an advocate of Infra as Code since working on it. Devops is something that is quite exciting for me, especially given it is always evolving.
I have been speaking at a few international conferences on testing and CI/CD. Saucecon'21, Ministry of Testing's Testbash and UI testing week events to name a few.
It has been so much fun building testing frameworks for a wide range of platforms including mobile, web, infrastructure and microservices.
Please feel free to reach out to chat anything testing.
I am a lead test automation engineer working as a part of the QE practice at Culture Amp led by the legendary Anne-Marie Charret.
I'm a developer turned tester. Even though writing code to build applications is so much fun, my now best friend showed me a few years ago that helping write good quality apps is much more fun. I jumped into testing from being a developer and have never looked back. I'm very passionate about native testing frameworks for web, backend, infra and mobile platforms
CI/CD is something I am very passionate about. On the web side of things, AWS CDK has been quite intriguing. I have been an advocate of Infra as Code since working on it. Devops is something that is quite exciting for me, especially given it is always evolving.
I have been speaking at a few international conferences on testing and CI/CD. Saucecon'21, Ministry of Testing's Testbash and UI testing week events to name a few.
It has been so much fun building testing frameworks for a wide range of platforms including mobile, web, infrastructure and microservices.
Please feel free to reach out to chat anything testing.
