JoeBot (TestGuild)Joe Colantonio, Founder of TestGuild

The Future of QA Manager 📈

2 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker outlines a forward‑looking approach to QA management where AI agents serve as verification layers, reducing the reliance on individual human verifiers. When AI‑gathered evidence is insufficient, the focus shifts from manually patching gaps to designing automated workflows that fill those gaps. The speaker introduces the Ido platform, highlighting its capabilities to add test instructions, define focus areas, and provide specialized skills. They discuss how to connect Ido to existing end‑to‑end test infrastructure, enabling a clear separation between exploratory, in‑depth testing and CI‑driven commit‑level checks that safeguard critical flows on every code change.

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Yeah, I think, you know, in terms— really think of it as a manager, right? So instead of being the individual verifier, you're going to have these AI agents that will act as verification. But let's say Edo gathers a bunch of evidence, but it hasn't convinced you that something's safe and you say, hey, I need to still go in and manually test, you know, these parts of it. At that point, Right. The question is not how do we, you know, how do I go in and fill in all the gaps manually, but how do I build in workflows that automatically fill these gaps in? So with Ido specifically, you can do things like adding test instructions. You can shape what Ido focuses on. You can provide skills. You can build more workflows. How do you connect this to your end-to-end test infrastructure to really identify, you know, what are things that we need in this like exploratory in-depth testing and what are You know, what's in CI that runs on, on every single commit that guarantees certain flows aren't breaking.