QA Principles

Three reference models shape how I plan work, where automation earns its keep, and how testing sits inside delivery—not as a gate at the end, but as a thread through the whole pipeline.

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Diagram: AI agent orchestration feeding a Playwright test suite, with visual AI, prioritization, self-healing, reports, and a CI/CD feedback loop.
AI-assisted Playwright automation. Inputs (requirements, UI exploration, production logs, natural-language prompts) feed an orchestration layer—plan which flows to cover, generate tests, heal broken locators—executed by Playwright against the system under test. Visual checks, intelligent prioritization, and failure analysis feed reports and a feedback loop back into CI/CD. This is the shape of the tooling on this site: repeatable runs with room to adapt when the product moves.
Infographic: six stages of the QA process from requirements analysis through release tests.
Stages of the QA process. Requirements analysis → plan the test → design test cases → run cases and report bugs → regression testing → release tests. I treat each stage as explicit deliverable work (like the Partner API regression plan), not an implicit “we tested it” checkbox—especially when a client ships an incremental extension update.
Infographic: CI/CD pipeline stages Source, Build, Test, and Deploy with common tool examples including Playwright in the Test stage.
Where testing sits in CI/CD. Source → build → test → deploy. Automated suites (Playwright, Selenium, Jest, and peers) belong in the test stage so regressions surface before deploy—not after. Cron jobs, extension builds, and operator dashboards I maintain are meant to plug into that rhythm: fast signal on every meaningful change.