Kailash Pathak Senior Team Lead Manager, Product Development, at 3Pillar He is Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) , Author of the Top Best seller book “Web Automation Testing Using Playwright” . A passionate speaker, writer, and mentor, contributes to the global testing community by conducting workshops, delivering talks, webnier, and sharing insights on platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Medium.
Speech: Building Scalable Autonomous Test Suites with Playwright and AI
This session explores the shift from fragile, script-based automation to scalable, autonomous testing systems. Traditional automation often fails at scale due to brittle locators, high maintenance effort, slow feedback loops. To overcome these challenges, the session introduces a move from static test cases to intelligent, adaptive test systems.
We begin by positioning Playwright as a strong foundation, highlighting features like auto-waiting, parallel execution, network interception, and advanced debugging. More importantly, Playwright is presented as an execution engine for AI-driven testing.
The session then introduces a three-agent architecture: a Planner Agent that generates test scenarios from requirements, an Executor Agent that runs tests, and a Healer Agent that detects failures and fixes issues. Finally, we cover scalable design practices such as modular architecture, dynamic test data, intelligent test selection, and environment isolation, promoting a “Test as a Platform” mindset.
