Automation Testing Podcast • Test Guild PodcastThe TestGuild Automation Podcast is the longest-running weekly show dedicated to all things software <strong>test automation</strong>. Hosted by Joe Colantonio, this podcast has been delivering actionable insights, expert interviews, and cutting-edge discussions since 2014—making it an essential resource for testers, automation engineers, and software professionals worldwide.https://testguild.com/en-usAI Agents Passed the Tests. Real Devices Didn’t. with Nick Metcalfehttps://testguild.com/podcast/a606-nick/https://testguild.com/podcast/a606-nick/<p>About This Episode: Cloud device farms make it easy to get started with real device testing. But what happens when [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:37:46 GMTAI Testing Reality Check: What 13 Founders Refuse to Automate with Joe Colantoniohttps://testguild.com/podcast/a605-joe/https://testguild.com/podcast/a605-joe/<p>About This Episode: I asked thirteen people inside AI testing one question: can AI test your software for you? Founders, [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:00:32 GMTHow to Stay Irreplaceable When Agents Write Your Tests with Jonathon Wrighthttps://testguild.com/podcast/a604-jonathon/https://testguild.com/podcast/a604-jonathon/<p>About This Episode: Is AI going to replace software testers, or make them more valuable than they have ever been? Jonathon [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:02:43 GMTAI Performance Testing: How to Scale Agentic AI with Kandasamy Selvarajhttps://testguild.com/podcast/a603-kandasamy/https://testguild.com/podcast/a603-kandasamy/<p>About This Episode: Everything you knew about performance testing changes when the system you&#8217;re testing is non deterministic. In this [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:48:54 GMTAI Testing Is Bigger Than You Think, 5 Areas Testers Must Own with Swati Seelahttps://testguild.com/podcast/a602-swati/https://testguild.com/podcast/a602-swati/<p>About This Episode: Most testers are stuck arguing about whether AI is coming for their jobs. Swati Seela thinks that&#8217;s [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:24:28 GMTWhy IoT Testing Proves Manual Testing Never Died with Oleksii Cherkashynhttps://testguild.com/podcast/a601-oleksii/https://testguild.com/podcast/a601-oleksii/<p>About This Episode: Manual testing never died. IoT is the proof. In this episode, Joe Colantonio talks with Oleksii Cherkashyn, [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:32:42 GMTTesting AI: Engineering Confidence in Non-Deterministic Systems with Jason Arbonhttps://testguild.com/podcast/a600-jason/https://testguild.com/podcast/a600-jason/<p>About This Episode: In this episode 600 of the TestGuild Automation Podcast, Joe Colantonio talks with Jason Arbon, founder of [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:48:09 GMTPlaywright With AI: How to Automate Tests Without Shipping AI Slop with Andrew Knighthttps://testguild.com/podcast/a599-andrew/https://testguild.com/podcast/a599-andrew/<p>About This Episode: Your developers just got supercharged by AI coding agents. Your test coverage did not. So how do [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:13:27 GMTTest Automation Won’t Save Your QA Career, but These Skills Will with Keith Klainhttps://testguild.com/podcast/a598-keith/https://testguild.com/podcast/a598-keith/<p>About This Episode: Keith Klain has spent 25+ years leading enterprise quality programs in financial services and is one of [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:32:00 GMTAI Testing Strategy: Stop Being a Cost Center, Start Protecting Revenue with Nandini Srinivasanhttps://testguild.com/podcast/a597-nandini/https://testguild.com/podcast/a597-nandini/<p>About This Episode: Nandini Srinivasan has spent 25 years in the quality industry and leads a global QA organization of [&hellip;]</p> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:28:41 GMTHow to Move from Prompt Engineering to Harness Engineering in Testing with Matt Wynnehttps://testguild.com/podcast/a596-matt/https://testguild.com/podcast/a596-matt/<p>About This Episode: Matt Wynne, co-creator of Cucumber and BDD practitioner, joins Joe for the first time in over a [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:39:06 GMTAgentic Engineering for Testers: How to Automate Your Way to the Top with Amit Rawathttps://testguild.com/podcast/a595-amit/https://testguild.com/podcast/a595-amit/<p>About This Episode: Amit Rawat is an agentic engineer who spent two decades in QA before shifting fully into building [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:03:51 GMTHow to Test Any API Without Documentation with Liudas Jankauskashttps://testguild.com/podcast/a594-liudas/https://testguild.com/podcast/a594-liudas/<p>About This Episode: Most API testing stops at the happy path. The problem is that the bugs that actually hurt [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:32:19 GMTYour AI Code Review Is Lying to You (Here’s the Fix) with Evan Marshallhttps://testguild.com/podcast/a593-evan/https://testguild.com/podcast/a593-evan/<p>About This Episode: Your AI code review tools read the diff. They stare at your code. But they never actually [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:46:18 GMTAI QA Agents Explained: How Amikoo Helps Testers with Ivan Barajas Vargashttps://testguild.com/podcast/a592-ivan/https://testguild.com/podcast/a592-ivan/<p>About This Episode: What happens to QA when AI is writing ten times more code than your team can test? [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:47:20 GMTThe AI Illusion: Why Testing Still Needs Humans with Joe Colantoniohttps://testguild.com/podcast/a591-joe/https://testguild.com/podcast/a591-joe/<p>About This Episode: Everyone is talking about AI replacing testers, writing tests, and transforming software quality. But what if we&#8217;re [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:23:43 GMTAI Agents in QA: How to Keep Up with AI-Driven Dev Velocity with Vilhelm von Ehrenheimhttps://testguild.com/podcast/a590-vilhelm/https://testguild.com/podcast/a590-vilhelm/<p>About This Episode: AI coding tools promised to make development faster — and they delivered. But here&#8217;s the problem nobody [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:02:56 GMTMaestro MCP, AI Mobile Testing That Fixes Its Own Testshttps://testguild.com/podcast/a589-maestro-mcp/https://testguild.com/podcast/a589-maestro-mcp/<p>About This Episode: What happens when AI agents can not only write mobile app code, but also validate their own [&hellip;]</p> Tue, 19 May 2026 11:19:50 GMTAI Testing Costs, How to Prevent Runaway Token Bills with Arthur Hickenhttps://testguild.com/podcast/a588-arthur-token-tax-ai-testing-costs-how-to-prevent-runaway-token-bills-with-arthur-hicken/https://testguild.com/podcast/a588-arthur-token-tax-ai-testing-costs-how-to-prevent-runaway-token-bills-with-arthur-hicken/<p>About This Episode: AI-powered testing tools are exploding across software engineering teams… but so are the hidden costs. In this [&hellip;]</p> Wed, 13 May 2026 02:24:28 GMTStop Rewriting Tests: How to Add AI to Selenium and Playwright Without Starting Overhttps://testguild.com/podcast/a587-alex-alumnium-stop-rewriting-tests-how-to-add-ai-to-selenium-and-playwright-without-starting-over/https://testguild.com/podcast/a587-alex-alumnium-stop-rewriting-tests-how-to-add-ai-to-selenium-and-playwright-without-starting-over/<p>About This Episode: AI-powered testing tools promise faster automation and less maintenance, but most require teams to abandon their existing [&hellip;]</p> Wed, 06 May 2026 02:27:54 GMT