AI Test Automation: Ship Twice as Fast with 10x Coverage with Karim Jouini

About This Episode:

AI test automation is evolving fast — but most tools still generate brittle code that breaks with every UI change.

See it for yourself now: https://links.testguild.com/Thunders

In this episode of the TestGuild Podcast, Joe Colantonio sits down with Karim Jouini, founder of Thunders, to explore a radically different approach to AI testing: executing test automation in plain English without generating Selenium or Playwright code.

Instead of “auto-healing selectors,” Thunders interprets natural language directly — allowing teams to:

• Ship twice as fast
• Achieve 10x test coverage with the same resources
• Reduce regression cycles from weeks to days
• Eliminate massive automation maintenance overhead

Karim shares real-world case studies, including:

• A European bank that reduced a 3-year core banking upgrade testing effort to 4 months
• A SaaS company that transitioned from a traditional QA team to AI-assisted product-led testing

We also discuss:

• Whether AI test agents replace QA roles
• How QA managers must shift from individual contributors to AI managers
• The risks of adopting AI without a defined success metric
• The future of shift-left testing in the AI era.

If you’re a software tester, automation engineer, QA lead, or DevOps leader trying to understand what’s hype versus real ROI in AI testing — this episode breaks it down.

Try it for yourself and see how AI testing fits into your pipeline.

Get personal demo: https://links.testguild.com/Thunders

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About Our Sponsor – Thunders

Thunders is an AI-powered QA assistant that executes test automation in plain English — no brittle selectors, no code maintenance headaches. Teams use it to ship twice as fast, increase coverage 10x, and catch defects earlier in the pipeline.

Ready to see it in action?

Book a demo and test it on your own app now: https://links.testguild.com/Thunders

About Karim Jouini

Born in Tunisia (North Africa), and travelled the world since child
Geek, started first software company at the age of 16
**Joined ** Microsoft , where I spent 7 years, from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager – where I truly fell in love with testing
Then founded Expensya , an AI-based expense management scale up, that was acquired $100m+
Now leading Thunders.ai , AI Test Agents that Build, Run and Debug tests

Connect with Karim Jouini

• • Company: Thunders 
  • LinkedIn: www.karimjouini

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