Agentic Engineering for Testers: How to Automate Your Way to the Top with Amit Rawat

About This Episode:

Amit Rawat is an agentic engineer who spent two decades in QA before shifting fully into building AI agents. He’s the creator of PromptWright, a desktop tool that turns natural language prompts into automated Playwright browser tests, complete with screen recording, Gherkin scenario generation, and self healing locators.

In this episode, Amit and Joe get into what it actually takes to work with AI agents at a high level, starting with why the planning phase matters more than the prompt itself. Amit breaks down his own workflow, brainstorming with AI, building a detailed plan in HTML before ever executing, and why curiosity and technical depth still matter even as AI gets more capable.

They also cover why Amit believes QA professionals, more than developers or DevOps engineers, are best positioned to thrive in the agentic era, how he tracks ROI on his 200 dollar a month Claude subscription, the “chief of staff," “chief health officer," and “chief financial officer" AI agents he’s built for his own life, and how he uses a memory layer so his agents actually understand his preferences over time.

If you’re a tester, automation engineer, or QA leader trying to figure out where AI agents fit into your workflow and your career, this conversation is a practical look at what’s already working today.

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About Amit Rawat

As an Engineering Manager with a passion for fostering innovation in Test Engineering, Engineering Productivity, and tooling, I thrive on blurring the lines between development and testing. My career is a testament to the synergy of both realms, where I incessantly work to bridge the gap between Dev and QA teams.

Outside of work, I love spending playful time with my children and keeping myself healthy in body and mind.

Connect with Amit Rawat

• • Company: Audax (Venture by Standard Chartered Bank)
  • Blog: amitrawat.dev
  • LinkedIn: www.amit-rawat/6/56/353
  • Twitter: www.sahajamit
  • YouTube: www.@agenticlife-amit
  • Github: www.sahajamit

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