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Notes from the QA console.

Industry POV and lessons from production. Most pieces live on Medium and cross-link back here for the case-study version.

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medium · linkedin idea post solution architecture Gen AI 12 min read May 2026

Stop wiring an LLM to a Jira ticket: a solution-architect's view of test case generation

Architecture proposal for an LLM-powered test-case generator: multi-source ingestion (Jira / Confluence / Figma / TCM), context caching + summarisation, a knowledge base plus a business-skill layer, three staged human approval gates (requirement mapping → blueprint → steps), guardrails for coverage / confidence / format / dedup, episodic memory, and direct TCM import. Solution-architect thinking with Gen AI.

idea post · medium · linkedin
medium · linkedin automation design patterns 11 min read May 2026

Scalable Automation: Design Patterns for Unreliable Interfaces

Six production-hardened patterns for automation that survives unstable UIs, config drift, and production unpredictability. The Scoped Action Pattern, pagination resilience, robust form filling, element waiting strategies, and the anti-patterns that silently kill test suites.

article · medium · linkedin
medium · linkedin playwright AI agents

I built a production-grade Playwright QA agent skill stack

A launch post and long-form article about the qa-agent skill: strict POM architecture, locator contracts, no static waits, production guards, audit scripts, and security-aware artifacts for AI coding agents.

case study · medium · linkedin
pinned · medium essay 7 min read

Pro tip: Teach your LLMs the business, not the trivia

Don't fill LLM memory with "what I ate" reminders. Use it for stable business context: business rules, product constraints, key flows, eligibility logic, decision boundaries. RAG is for fresh source-backed knowledge. Memory / skills are for durable product understanding.

medium · @anmolsoin1
linkedin · repost 4 min read 2025

We introduced AI agents to speed up QA automation

Reposted with commentary on how AI agents changed the QA automation workflow — the parts that worked, the parts that didn't, and what "AI-accelerated QA" actually looks like in a production MVNE.

linkedin · @mrnewdelhi
essay 7 min read Feb 2026

AI accelerates. Humans still decide.

Notes on why every agent I ship has a human-in-the-loop boundary — and why the cost calculus for autonomous AI is often worse than it looks. Reposted on LinkedIn from Pradeep Shinde's sharp satire on agents-on-agents.

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article 12 min read Jan 2026

Surviving seven upstream outages with a mock harness

What I'd do again, and what I'd never do again. The mock-at-the-edge pattern, when it works, and when it papers over a real architecture problem.

medium · @anmolsoin1
build log 6 min read Dec 2025

A 200-line Postgres service replaced 4 hours/week

How a tiny test-data account pool became the most-loved internal tool on the QA team — and the design choices that made it sticky.

medium · @anmolsoin1
essay 10 min read Nov 2025

Locator maintenance is the boring tax on mobile automation

The case for a multi-model self-healing framework. Why DOM heuristics alone aren't enough, and what changed when we layered a vision model in.

medium · @anmolsoin1
article 9 min read Oct 2025

Triaging customer tickets with video + Gemini 3

The customer sent a 4-minute screen recording and a one-line Jira ticket. How a multimodal pipeline turned that into actionable repro steps with structured metadata.

medium · @anmolsoin1

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