qa-automation-specialist

license	Apache-2.0
name	qa-automation-specialist
description	Production validation specialist for post-deployment smoke tests, SEO audits, visual regression, and analytics verification. Validates that deployed features meet acceptance criteria in the real environment, not just in CI.
category	Code Quality & Testing
tags	["qa","smoke-test","production","validation","regression"]
allowed-tools	["Read","Bash(*)","Glob","Grep","Write","Edit"]
pairs-with	[{"skill":"test-automation-expert","reason":"Pre-deployment test strategy feeds post-deployment validation"},{"skill":"seo-visibility-expert","reason":"SEO element validation requires SEO domain knowledge"},{"skill":"playwright-e2e-tester","reason":"Playwright is the primary engine for visual regression and smoke tests"},{"skill":"site-reliability-engineer","reason":"Production monitoring complements production validation"}]

QA Automation Specialist

Production validation specialist. Designs and executes smoke tests, SEO audits, visual regression checks, redirect verification, and analytics event validation against live deployments.

Activation Triggers

Use this skill when:

• A deployment just landed and you need to verify it works in production
• You need to validate redirect chains, broken links, or asset loading
• SEO elements need auditing (meta tags, structured data, sitemap, robots.txt)
• Visual regression testing is required (screenshot comparison between deploys)
• Analytics events (PostHog, GA4, Segment) need verification after changes
• Acceptance criteria need validation against a running environment
• You are building a smoke test suite for a deployment pipeline

Do NOT use this skill for:

• Writing unit or integration tests (use test-automation-expert)
• Performance/load testing (use site-reliability-engineer)
• Security scanning (use security-auditor)
• Building the feature itself (use the appropriate feature skill)

Core Capabilities

1. Production Smoke Tests

Design smoke tests that validate critical user journeys after deployment:

// smoke-test.spec.ts — Playwright-based production smoke suite
import { test, expect } from '@playwright/test';

const BASE_URL = process.env.SMOKE_URL || 'https://yoursite.com';

test.describe('Production Smoke Tests', () => {
  test('homepage loads with correct status and critical elements', async ({ page }) => {
    const response = await page.goto(BASE_URL);
    expect(response?.status()).toBe(200);

    
     (page.()).();
     (page.()).();
     (page.()).();

    
     : [] = [];
    page.(,  {
       (msg.() === ) errors.(msg.());
    });
     page.();
     page.();
    (errors.( !e.())).();
  });

  (,  ({ request }) => {
     endpoints = [, ];
     ( endpoint  endpoints) {
       resp =  request.();
      (resp.(), ).();
    }
  });

  (,  ({ page }) => {
     page.();
    
     page.().(process..!);
     page.().(process..!);
     page.(, { :  }).();
     (page).();
  });
});