September 15, 2026 
Hosted by Joe Colantonio 
Is AI going to replace software testers, or make them more valuable than they have ever been? Jonathon Wright says both, and in this episode he does not back down from either position.
Jonathon Wright has spent thirty years in test automation, going all the way back to WinRunner. He now runs thirty AI agents across twelve screens, he sat with Gartner for their research on agentic platforms, and he says the last six months changed the job more than the previous three decades combined.
We get into what he calls confidence engineering, why he has not opened a browser in five years, and what happened when he generated thirty seven thousand test scenarios from space agency specifications and put them in front of NASA.
He also tells the story of a testing leader who taught his agents everything he knew about accessibility work and then got let go. A few minutes later he tells you your career has another fifteen good years in it. I pushed him on the contradiction. Listen for how he answers it.
What you will learn in this episode:
Whether you are an automation engineer, a manual tester, or a QA leader trying to work out what your team should do differently this quarter, this conversation will give you a clearer read on where the value is actually moving.
