Devi Lavanya founded TestAutomate after two decades in software quality assurance,
watching the same pattern repeat across every era of the industry. In her
enterprise-services years, batch-dependent test plans failed together, with a single
upstream failure invalidating a full day of downstream runs. On a VOIP product, test
failures regularly had nothing to do with the application, and separating a genuine
defect from a network fault became a discipline of its own. In her Selenium years, UI
redesigns broke locators at scale, and the effort of repairing them competed directly
with the work of testing. Release weeks followed the same course everywhere: manual
regression cycles ran long, and coverage was cut when time ran out.
The conclusion she drew from those years is the premise of this company. Most of what the
industry calls test automation is maintenance of the automation itself, not testing of
the product. The tooling encodes how to locate elements, and nothing about what actually
matters.
Shravin Vivek, TestAutomate's Founding Engineer, turned that diagnosis into a product,
and built it end to end. The browser agent reads a page and locates elements the way a
person would, with no selectors to maintain. The verifier, a separate model, evaluates
every run against written expectations rather than accepting the agent's own account of
what happened. An ingestion pipeline converts product documentation into an executable
regression suite. And the guardrails keep results trustworthy: a run whose preconditions
failed is reported as blocked rather than failed, and no bug reaches an issue tracker
without human review.
That division of responsibility still defines the company. The product is shaped by the
problems Devi Lavanya spent her career confronting, and engineered by Shravin Vivek to
remove them.