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

Produce a ready-to-publish content pack in Pramod Dutta's Testing Academy voice (Medium article, LinkedIn post, Style C tweet-screenshot image prompts with graded controversial hooks, Style A cyber infographic prompt). Use this skill whenever the user…

Tailor an existing resume to a specific job description and deliver it as an editable Google Doc (or .docx). Use this skill whenever the user supplies a resume together with a job description, job posting, JD spreadsheet, or a bulleted list of role…

Design safe API authorization-boundary tests across roles, scopes, tenants, and object ownership. Use when asked to test BOLA or IDOR risks, tenant isolation, cross-user access, privilege boundaries, or whether a principal may act on a resource. Produce a…

Convert approved API test cases into a Postman/Newman or Bruno collection. Use when asked to build an API collection, make cases runnable in Newman or Bruno, parameterize environments, or package requests, assertions, chaining, and cleanup. Produce a…

Compare observed HTTP API requests and responses with an OpenAPI or equivalent endpoint contract. Use when asked to validate a response against an HTTP specification, find API contract drift, check status codes or headers, or review captured request and…

Create a review-ready API performance plan and optional k6 or JMeter draft. Use when asked to plan load, stress, spike, soak, throughput, concurrency, or latency testing for APIs. Produce an evidence-based workload, thresholds, monitoring needs, and abort…

Plan controlled API resilience tests for timeouts, retries, throttling, duplicate delivery, dependency failures, idempotency, and recovery. Use when asked to test 429 handling, retry behavior, duplicate submissions, partial failure, or fault recovery. Produce…

Design stateful tests spanning multiple API calls, lifecycle transitions, asynchronous jobs, events, or callbacks. Use when asked to test an end-to-end API workflow, chain endpoints, verify a resource lifecycle, or validate eventual outcomes. Produce a…

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,…

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,…

Turn an approved test case into a runnable automation script skeleton. Use when an engineer says "automate TC-5", "write a Playwright test for this", or "generate a Selenium script from this case". Produces a Playwright (TypeScript) or Selenium draft using…

Log and summarize the execution of a test cycle. Use when a tester says "log this run", "track execution for the sprint", or reports results case by case and wants them recorded. Captures pass / fail / blocked / not-run per case with evidence links and…

Turn a failure into a clean, reproducible bug report. Use when a tester says "file a bug for this", "write up this defect", or describes something broken and wants it documented properly. Produces a structured report — title, environment, steps to reproduce,…

Find the gaps between what was required and what was actually tested. Use when a lead says "where are our coverage gaps", "what isn't tested", or wants requirements and code areas checked against the executed and available tests. Builds a traceability view —…

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,…

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…

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 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.

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.