Kailash Pathak

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Sr. QA Lead Manager at 3Pillar

Joined Mar 2023

https://qaautomationlabs.com/blog

About

Author ✦ Speaker ✦ Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) || Grab My Book On Playwright https://lnkd.in/gpkGYTgG || Read My Blog qaautomationlabs.com/ || 2x AWS,PMI-ACP®,ITIL® PRINCE2 Practitioner® | ISTQB Certified || || Cypress || Playwright || Selenium | WebdriverIO | API Automation

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Expertise

Testing, Tools, and Frameworks

Articles

Agentic Testing: Moving Quality From Checkpoint to Control Layer

Learn how agentic testing reshapes QA by adding governance, traceability, and accountability to AI-driven workflows, ensuring speed doesn’t compromise quality.

May 19, 2026

· 1,575 Views

Can Claude Skills Replace Playwright Agents? A Practical View for QA Engineers

Claude+Playwright ≠ true agent: it’s workflow-driven (run→fix→rerun). Agents adapt in real time. Best: combine both for resilient, low-maintenance QA.

May 15, 2026

· 1,585 Views

End-to-End Automation Using Microsoft Playwright CLI

Learn how Microsoft Playwright CLI enables token-efficient, scalable browser automation for AI coding agents, improving performance and reducing costs.

February 27, 2026

· 2,597 Views

Playwright Fixtures vs. Lazy Approach

A guide comparing Fixture and Lazy patterns in test automation, showing how on-demand object creation improves performance and scalability in Playwright frameworks.

February 11, 2026

· 2,030 Views

End-to-End Test Automation With Playwright, GitHub Page, and Allure Reports

Learn how to build a modern test automation pipeline with Playwright, GitHub Actions, and Allure Reports for reliable, scalable web app testing.

December 19, 2025

· 2,237 Views · 1 Like

Building a New Testing Mindset for AI-Powered Web Apps

Learn about AI-powered testing strategies to ensure your intelligent systems are reliable, ethical, and aligned with business goals.

October 30, 2025

· 2,119 Views · 2 Likes

Automating a Web Form With Playwright MCP and MySQL MCP

Learn how to automate form filling using Playwright MCP and MySQL MCP by fetching real-time data from a database with minimal scripting.

July 23, 2025

· 3,268 Views

Create POM With LLM (GitHub Copilot) and Playwright MCP

Learn how to build a scalable, AI-powered test automation framework using Playwright MCP, GitHub Copilot, and the Page Object Model design pattern.

June 13, 2025

· 4,636 Views · 5 Likes

Integrating Cursor and LLM for BDD Testing With Playwright MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Learn in this article how BDD, AI-powered Cursor, and Playwright MCP simplify test automation, enabling faster, smarter, and more collaborative workflows.

June 11, 2025

· 3,487 Views

Modern Test Automation With AI (LLM) and Playwright MCP

Learn how GenAI and Playwright MCP transform QA with natural language test creation, self-healing scripts, dynamic flows, and seamless browser automation.

May 23, 2025

· 21,224 Views · 7 Likes

Running and Debugging Tests With Playwright UI Mode

Playwright UI mode, launched in v1.32, offers a visual interface for debugging tests with real-time feedback, live execution tracking, and selector tools.

March 21, 2025

· 6,117 Views · 2 Likes

Playwright Fixtures vs POM: Which One Should You Choose?

Playwright fixtures streamline test automation by managing reusable objects like POMs, improving readability, reducing duplication, and enabling scalable test suites.

March 20, 2025

· 3,263 Views · 1 Like

Exploring Playwright’s Feature “Copy Prompt”

Playwright's new "Copy prompt" feature simplifies debugging by generating detailed prompts for LLMs like ChatGPT. This enhances testing efficiency and precision.

March 18, 2025

· 4,002 Views · 2 Likes

Playwright: Filter Visible Elements With locator.filter({ visible: true })

This highlights Playwright's new locator.filter({ visible: true }) feature, which simplifies testing by focusing on visible elements, improving accuracy and test clarity.

March 13, 2025

· 4,024 Views · 1 Like

Fixtures (Built-in Fixtures) in Playwright

Playwright fixtures, like page or browser, simplify tests by saving setup time, ensuring isolation, and handling automatic cleanup for consistency.

March 7, 2025

· 4,663 Views · 1 Like

Build an AI Browser Agent With LLMs, Playwright, Browser Use

A guide on how to build an AI browser agent using LLMs, Playwright, and Browser Use to automate web interactions, extract data, and navigate sites efficiently.

February 7, 2025

· 18,233 Views · 4 Likes

Exploring Operator, OpenAI’s New AI Agent

OpenAI has introduced its new AI agent, Operator. See how it can streamline software testing, reduce manual effort, and enhance accuracy with automation.

February 6, 2025

· 5,351 Views · 3 Likes

Seamless CI/CD Integration: Playwright and GitHub Actions

Integrate Playwright with GitHub Actions to automate testing and deployment workflows, ensuring seamless CI/CD, rapid feedback, and reliable web apps.

December 26, 2024

· 7,629 Views · 3 Likes

Cypress vs. Selenium: Choosing the Best Tool for Your Automation Needs

This guide will help you choose the best automation testing tool between Cypress and Selenium, highlighting their features, advantages, and limitations.

December 4, 2024

· 3,629 Views · 4 Likes

Getting Started With Microsoft Tool Playwright for Automated Testing

In this blog, we will deep dive into the various features of Playwright and how we can perform end-to-end testing with Playwright with detailed examples.

July 5, 2024

· 3,935 Views · 3 Likes

Cypress Debugging Hacks: Tips and Tricks for Speedy Resolution

Debugging Cypress tests can help identify issues in test code and the application under test. Here, learn more about the Cypress debugger and other dev tools.

June 25, 2024

· 4,268 Views · 6 Likes

Mock The API Data (Request and Responses) With Playwright

Mocking API responses refers to the practice of creating simulated responses from an API without actually interacting with the real API.

June 5, 2024

· 4,451 Views · 2 Likes

API Testing With Playwright

Modern software development requires API testing, and Playwright offers a strong, adaptable framework for building thorough API test suites.

May 27, 2024

· 4,834 Views · 5 Likes

Cypress With Cucumber for Seamless End-To-End Testing

Cypress is a modern web-based end-to-end testing framework. For writing and running tests, it offers a quick, dependable, and user-friendly environment.

May 23, 2024

· 4,821 Views · 7 Likes

Cypress vs Playwright: A Comparative Analysis

This analysis of Playwright and Cypress will guide you through the criteria by which you can determine the most suitable testing tool for your project.

May 22, 2024

· 2,022 Views · 3 Likes

How To Handle UI Components Using Playwright

In this blog, you will see how we can automate various UI components using Playwright, as well as key aspects of UI elements.

November 27, 2023

· 2,445 Views · 3 Likes

Page Object Model (POM) – With Playwright

Page Object Model (POM) is a Playwright-supported design pattern for test automation. Enhances test maintainability and readability.

November 13, 2023

· 8,075 Views · 4 Likes

Mocking API Response in Cypress

This article shows how Cypress can simulate API responses by mocking them. This allows you to test your front-end code without relying on a back-end server.

November 6, 2023

· 3,671 Views · 4 Likes

Enhance Testing Workflows With HTML Allure Reports in Cypress

Cypress is a fast and user-friendly JavaScript testing framework that generates detailed Allure reports with screenshots.

October 24, 2023

· 2,756 Views · 4 Likes

Cypress Feature “Test Replay” Launched: Let’s Play With Test Replay

Test Replay is a valuable feature that can help developers debug failed and flaky test runs more effectively. Learn more!

September 6, 2023

· 3,216 Views · 3 Likes

Trend Reports

Trend Report

API Management

Developers globally are reclaiming their voice and authority in shaping the software and tools they use regularly. Pivoting from more rigid mindsets around integration management, APIs are taking a needed turn toward development-centric workflows, automations, and evolving use cases. Practices like API-first development and democratization allow dev teams to impart a proactive, strategic approach to API implementation across the organization, specifically as it relates to to security, AI, and messaging infrastructures.AI continues to redefine technology and workplaces as we know it. Data integrations and API gateways hold the keys to effectively communicating the needs and actions across software systems. But with APIs comes heightened security risks. For API lifecycles to evolve and thrive, mounting questions and concerns about security must be addressed.In DZone's 2025 API Management Trend Report, readers will find our original research on key themes like the evolution of API lifecycles, global operational impacts, AI's growing presence, and security challenges and strategies. Software practitioners from the DZone Community also join us, sharing their expert insights on API standards and architectural styles, the intersection of API<>AI gateways, platform engineering's impact on API scalability and security, and more.

Comments

DZone Community Awards 2023

Dec 22, 2023 · Jason Cockerham

Congrats To all Community contributor !!!