Test Faster, Fail Smarter | 1st Salt Lake City Meetup

Automation is evolving and it’s time we evolved with it.

Join us at The Test Tribe’s 1st Salt Lake City Meetup for an insightful session on how modern automation tools like Playwright are transforming QA in today’s fast-paced DevOps world. Led by Pankaj Pote, this talk will take you on a journey from Selenium to Playwright, highlighting how smarter, scalable test automation is enabling faster feedback, better resilience, and more confident releases.

Date: 30th September 2025

Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MST

Venue: The Shop Coworking

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Session Overview

In today's CI/CD-driven world, traditional automation approaches often become bottlenecks. Flaky tests, slow feedback loops, and lack of visibility are common challenges QA teams face.

In this session, Pankaj Pote will explore how Playwright is solving these problems—bringing speed, reliability, and modern DevOps readiness to the table. With built-in auto-waiting, native parallelism, and intelligent locators, Playwright doesn’t just replace Selenium—it redefines what automation should be.

This talk is perfect for QA engineers looking to elevate their test strategy, shift left with confidence, and build scalable test pipelines for the future.

• Playwright is not just faster—it’s smarter and built for DevOps
• Shift-left testing enables faster feedback and continuous improvement
• QA Engineers must grow into Automation Architects—and Playwright enables that evolution

Pankaj Pote is a QA Automation expert with a strong focus on cloud-native tools and Kubernetes. With a passion for designing scalable and cost-effective automation strategies, he brings experience across tools like Playwright, AWS, and Kubernetes to modernize QA practices. In this session, he’ll share how you can leverage these technologies to future-proof your automation.

Why You Should Attend

• Understand how to overcome common challenges in Selenium-based automation
• Learn what makes Playwright a true DevOps-ready tool
• Discover how to build smarter pipelines with cloud, Kubernetes, and intelligent automation
• Connect with the Salt Lake QA and tech community for a night of learning and networking

This is your chance to kick off our very first Salt Lake City meetup with a practical, powerful topic that addresses real-world QA problems in modern teams.

The Test Tribe is the world’s largest software testing community, empowering global testers since 2018. With 400+ events, 120K+ members across 130+ countries, we foster collaboration, upskilling, and career growth through expert-led courses, memberships, cohorts, and community gatherings.

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As QA evolves, let’s not just test faster - but smarter. See you at the meetup.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Shop Coworking, 350 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, United States