PramodDutta

Use when adding or editing QA skills in seed-skills/ or getting them onto the live qaskills.sh catalog, e.g. "add N new skills", "create a seed skill for X", "seed the database", "the skill page is empty", "skill 404s on the site".

Use when deploying qaskills.sh to production, verifying whether a deploy landed, or when a push to main did not show up on the live site, e.g. "deploy", "ship it", "push this live", "is prod updated?", "the site still shows the old version".

Format CVs for academic positions with publications, grants, and teaching

Fill out job application form fields with context-aware, tailored answers drawn from the candidate's CV and the job description

Translate skills from one industry to another, identify transferable skills

Write personalized cold outreach emails to hiring managers and founders - specific, human, not a pitch deck

Create personalized, compelling cover letters from resume and job description

Balance visual design with ATS compatibility for creative roles

Turn a vague user story into testable Given/When/Then acceptance criteria. Use when a tester or BA says "write acceptance criteria for this story", "make these ACs testable", "convert this to Given When Then", or pastes a one-line user story. Produces…

Build a requirements traceability matrix (RTM) that links requirements and acceptance criteria to scenarios, test cases and defects. Use when a QA lead says "build an RTM for this release", "which requirements have no tests", "find orphan test cases", or…

Score features by likelihood x impact into a risk matrix and turn it into test depth and execution order. Use when a QA lead says "prioritize testing by risk", "build a risk matrix for this release", "we only have 3 days, what do we test first", or pastes a…

Plan test environments and test data needs: environment matrix, browsers and devices, integrations, stubs, data refresh, access and a booking schedule. Use when a QA lead says "plan our test environments", "what environments and data do we need", "set up the…

Estimate test effort with a work breakdown structure (WBS) and three-point PERT estimates, with explicit assumptions and buffer. Use when a QA lead says "estimate the testing effort", "how many days do we need to test this", "give me a PERT estimate", or…

Turn a JIRA ticket into a review-ready test plan. Use when a tester or QA lead says "write a test plan for JIRA-1234", "plan testing for this story", "what should we test here", or pastes an acceptance-criteria / user-story ticket. Fetches the ticket,…

Write a product or release level test strategy covering test levels, test types, environments, tooling, automation approach, risk, entry/exit criteria and roles. Use when a QA lead says "write a test strategy for this product", "define our testing approach…

Design API-level test coverage from an endpoint or contract. Use when a tester says "design API tests for POST /orders", "test this endpoint", or pastes an OpenAPI / contract snippet and wants coverage mapped. Produces a coverage matrix across happy path,…

Quality gate asking "is this still part of this framework?" Enforces AdvancePlaywrightFramework2x conventions - fixture imports, page objects extending BasePage, path aliases, project scoping for src/tests vs apisTests vs aiTest, spec filenames needing a dot…

Quality gate asking "was this generated, skimmed, and shipped?" Detects hallucinated APIs, assertions that check nothing, `any` used to silence the compiler, comments restating code, and documentation claiming results nobody ran. Use before raising a PR, or…

Quality gate asking "how many callers does this abstraction have?" Blocks interfaces with one implementation, exports with no importer, new utilities duplicating src/utils, parameters no caller passes, and new dependencies that fetch or the installed Ajv…

Quality gate asking "does anything else in the run already record this?" Finds machinery that duplicates what the tooling already provides - test.step wrappers and attachments duplicated by trace:'on', log lines restating their own step names, and describe…

Run all four quality gates over a diff before a pull request is raised - ai-slop, ponytail, over-engineering and framework-patterns. Use when the user says "quality gate", "run the gates", "check before PR", "review this diff", or is about to open a PR in…

Builds a two-part explainer page for a change that just shipped in this repo - a plain-language ELI5 walkthrough, plus an appended hand-drawn Excalidraw-style whiteboard diagram sized for a team standup. Use when the user says "eli5 this", "explain what we…

Integrates automated accessibility checks into Playwright tests using axe-core. Use when an SDET says "add a11y checks", "run axe on this page", "audit accessibility", "check WCAG compliance", or "triage these accessibility violations". Produces…

Designs and generates API tests using Playwright's request context. Use when an SDET says "write API tests for this endpoint", "test the /orders API", "add schema validation for this response", "cover the negative cases", or pastes an OpenAPI/endpoint spec.…

Score, ATS-check, and tailor a resume against a specific job description, then produce a clean updated Word (.docx) resume. Use this skill whenever the user provides (or mentions) a resume plus a job description and wants any of: a resume score/review, an ATS…

Full content production engine for Pramod Dutta / The Testing Academy. Give it ONE topic and it produces a complete publish-ready pack in Pramod's brand voice: LinkedIn post, Medium article, YouTube script, Instagram carousel script, Instagram carousel image…

Build a structured, high-quality AI prompt using the RICE-POT framework (Role, Instructions, Context, Example, Parameters, Output, Tone). Use this whenever the user wants to create, write, fix, structure, or improve a prompt — especially for generating test…

Read a JIRA ticket and judge whether it is actually ready to test. Use when a tester says "analyze this ticket", "is this story ready to test", "find gaps in JIRA-123", or pastes a user story / acceptance criteria and wants it pressure-tested. Fetches the…

Turn a JIRA ticket into a review-ready test plan. Use when a tester or QA lead says "write a test plan for JIRA-1234", "plan testing for this story", "what should we test here", or pastes an acceptance-criteria / user-story ticket. Fetches the ticket,…

Turn a JIRA ticket into a review-ready test plan. Use when a tester or QA lead says "write a test plan for JIRA-1234", "plan testing for this story", "what should we test here", or pastes an acceptance-criteria / user-story ticket. Fetches the ticket,…

Set up a DeepEval LLM-as-judge evaluation framework from scratch for any chatbot, RAG pipeline, AI agent, or LLM-backed app under test — the same architecture used in Chapter 19 (ShopSphere chatbot, RAG Explorer, and the live BrowserBash bot). Use this skill…

Run large or multi-phase tasks as a tiered workflow - the top model (Fable/Opus) orchestrates while subagents on cheaper models (Sonnet, Haiku) do the bulk of the work, stretching usage limits without sacrificing quality. Use this skill whenever the user…

Turn a JIRA ticket into a review-ready test plan. Use when a tester or QA lead

Scans a Playwright spec or Page Object for brittle locators and rewrites them to resilient ones. Use when an SDET says "fix these locators", "my selectors are flaky", "replace XPath with getByRole", "make these locators resilient", or pastes code full of…

Teach and implement Playwright AI agent workflows (Planner, Generator, Healer) with MCP and repository guardrails. Use when preparing workshops, generating Playwright tests with architecture constraints, or enforcing deterministic code generation through a…

Automate browser interactions using Playwright CLI tools. Covers both standard CLI (npx playwright) for test execution, codegen, debugging, reporting, and the new @playwright/cli for AI-agent-friendly persistent browser sessions.

Generate a Playwright Page Object (POM) class for the TTACart demo app (app.thetestingacademy.com/playwright/ttacart) by driving the live page and reading its real selectors. Use this whenever the user gives a TTACart page URL plus a flow to reach it and asks…

Use when publishing or expanding SEO blog articles on botskills.sh, e.g. "publish today's articles", "write N articles", "expand the blog", "add a blog post", or any request that creates or edits files under packages/web/src/app/blog/posts.

Use after every CI Playwright run to triage failures end-to-end. Runs RCA, hands locator failures to heal, runs the flaky detector over recent runs, files Jira bugs for product defects, returns a one-line summary.