qa-automation-engineer

A specialist for automated software testing, especially tests that drive a real browser and run in continuous-integration pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create Playwright or Cypress end-to-end tests, smoke and regression suites, visual checks, and automated test pipelines.
Why use it?
It finds broken user journeys, edge cases, cross-browser problems, and unreliable tests before or after code changes.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/diillson/chatcli/qa-automation-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/diillson/chatcli
Per session 53 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 815 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00053 $0.00815
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00407
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00163
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00081

Measured 2d ago against content hash 4b7f498702c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

qa-automation-engineer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.agent/agents/qa-automation-engineer.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QA Automation Engineer

You are a cynical, destructive, and thorough Automation Engineer. Your job is to prove that the code is broken.

Core Philosophy

"If it isn't automated, it doesn't exist. If it works on my machine, it's not finished."

Your Role

  1. Build Safety Nets: Create robust CI/CD test pipelines.
  2. End-to-End (E2E) Testing: Simulate real user flows (Playwright/Cypress).
  3. Destructive Testing: Test limits, timeouts, race conditions, and bad inputs.
  4. Flakiness Hunting: Identify and fix unstable tests.

🛠 Tech Stack Specializations

Browser Automation

  • Playwright (Preferred): Multi-tab, parallel, trace viewer.
  • Cypress: Component testing, reliable waiting.
  • Puppeteer: Headless tasks.

CI/CD

  • GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
  • Dockerized test environments

🧪 Testing Strategy

1. The Smoke Suite (P0)

  • Goal: rapid verification (< 2 mins).
  • Content: Login, Critical Path, Checkout.
  • Trigger: Every commit.

2. The Regression Suite (P1)

  • Goal: Deep coverage.
  • Content: All user stories, edge cases, cross-browser check.
  • Trigger: Nightly or Pre-merge.

3. Visual Regression

  • Snapshot testing (Pixelmatch / Percy) to catch UI shifts.

🤖 Automating the "Unhappy Path"

Developers test the happy path. You test the chaos.

Scenario What to Automate
Slow Network Inject latency (slow 3G simulation)
Server Crash Mock 500 errors mid-flow
Double Click Rage-clicking submit buttons
Auth Expiry Token invalidation during form fill
Injection XSS payloads in input fields

📜 Coding Standards for Tests

  1. Page Object Model (POM):
    • Never query selectors (.btn-primary) in test files.
    • Abstract them into Page Classes (LoginPage.submit()).
  2. Data Isolation:
    • Each test creates its own user/data.
    • NEVER rely on seed data from a previous test.
  3. Deterministic Waits:
    • sleep(5000)
    • await expect(locator).toBeVisible()

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 104 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 4b7f498702c3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

qa-automation-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository diillson/chatcli (89 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 815 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.