Date: 20 March 2026
Location: Online
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and the combined potential of human and computer intelligence present a significant opportunity for innovation across various industries. In software testing, using AI has become essential for streamlining processes, enhancing efficiency and enabling organisations to deliver high-quality software products efficiently.
On 20 March, we will host the next session of our AI Testing Talks webinar series and will be joined by Kailash Pathak, Senior Team Lead Manager, Product Development at 3Pillar, to discuss:
Why QA teams are adopting Playwright and how AI makes it smarter
The webinar will cover the following points:
- what makes Playwright unique for modern test automation
- why testers are moving to Playwright
- faster and more reliable test execution
- built-in auto-waits and modern browser handling
- cross-browser testing out of the box
- better tester and developer experience, compared to legacy tools
- some key advanced capabilities of Playwright
- how AI enhances Playwright automation
- AI-assisted test creation from user flows or requirements
- intelligent locator strategies and self-healing tests
- AI-powered failure analysis and debugging insights
Invited Speaker
Kailash Pathak
Senior Team Lead Manager, Product Development at 3Pillar | Author | Speaker
Bio
Kailash Pathak, Senior Team Lead Manager, Product Development at 3Pillar, has over 15 years of expertise in QA engineering and automation. He is the author of the top bestseller book “Web Automation Testing Using Playwright” and holds multiple industry-recognized certifications, including PMI-ACP®, ITIL®, PRINCE2 Practitioner®, and ISTQB®. As a passionate speaker, writer and mentor, he contributes to the global testing community by conducting workshops, delivering talks and webinars and sharing insights on LinkedIn, X and Medium.
Our webinars series is dedicated to discussing AI-related topics, exploring various aspects of software testing and AI technology including Generative AI, AI-powered test tools, the impact of AI biases, the role of AI in software testing, and more. The sessions provide you with the opportunity to stay updated on recent tech trends, and discover strategies to improve your current projects with a cutting-edge technology stack. AI Testing Talks participants are encouraged to engage in Q&A sessions, ask questions and share thoughts.
AI Testing Talks Host
Anna-Maria Lukina
Marketing Director, Exactpro
Bio
Anna-Maria Lukina is the Marketing Director at Exactpro and Outreach Director for Exactpro’s AI Testing Training programs. In her Marketing Director role, Anna-Maria is responsible for global brand and business development and management of industry events. Coming from a technology background herself, Anna-Maria also wears an Outreach Director hat to bring a strategic vision into Exactpro’s professional development activities such as the award-winning ISTQB®-accredited AI testing course for enterprises and individual learners.
Anna-Maria has co-authored Exactpro’s latest book – ‘Introduction to AI Testing: Guide to ISTQB® CT-AI Certification’ released in September 2025 by BCS Publishing.
With a deep understanding of information systems and technologies and extensive experience in global marketing, Anna-Maria has successfully led the Exactpro brand through product launches, the acquisition by LSEG and the following buyout, countless international and local industry gatherings, as well as the accompanying social media campaigns.
Q&A Session Moderator
Iosif Itkin
CEO and co-founder of Exactpro
Bio
Iosif is co-founder and co-CEO of Exactpro – an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing and related development services for financial organisations. Founded in 2009, Exactpro has a client base of major exchanges, post-trade platform operators, banks and technology vendors across 24 countries.
In his professional career, Iosif has held many technology roles: software developer, performance testing department lead, technology architect – on a number of global financial industry initiatives. Iosif’s expertise at the intersection of high-availability systems and capital markets has enabled him to successfully facilitate technology transformations within exchanges, investment banks and clearing and settlement organisations in London, New York, Milan, Singapore, Sydney and other major financial centres.
Iosif is a co-author of ‘Introduction to AI Testing: Guide to ISTQB® CT-AI Certification’ released in September 2025 by BCS Publishing.
About Exactpro
Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. Our clients are exchanges, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 20 countries. Our area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, payments APIs. We help our clients to decrease time to market, maintain regulatory compliance, improve scalability, latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro is involved in a variety of transformation programmes related to large-scale cloud and DLT implementations at systemically important organisations.
Our approaches leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help harness the power of exploratory data analysis and big data analytics to assist in the generation of test ideas and the interpretation of test results, supported by advanced execution capabilities of the th2 frameworks suite.
Founded in 2009, the Exactpro Group is headquartered in the UK and operates delivery centres in Georgia, Sri Lanka, Armenia, and the UK and representative offices in the US, Canada and Italy, and as well as a global distributed network of consultants.
Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of your system, reducing costs, accelerating time to market, while maintaining operational resiliency and regulatory compliance? Visit us at exactpro.com.