AI-Powered Testing: Jonathon Wright on Automation and Open-Source Trends
Jonathon Wright
Eggplant
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In this episode: Jonathon Wright and Leandro Melendez explore the integration of AI-driven tools into modern testing frameworks, emphasizing their role in improving efficiency, predictive analytics, and continuous delivery. The conversation also touches on open-source innovation, and the importance of collaboration in DevOps pipelines.
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About Me!
Jonathon Wright is a strategic thought leader and distinguished technology evangelist. He specializes in emerging technologies, innovation, and automation, and has more than 25 years of international commercial experience within global organizations.
Currently the Chief Technologist and heads up AI Labs BU for Eggplant a Keysight Technologies company. Jonathon combines his extensive practical experience and leadership with insights into real-world adoption of Cognitive Engineering (AI-Augmented Testing and Generative AI).
Thus, he is frequently in demand as a speaker at international conferences such as TEDx, Gartner, Oracle, AI Summit, ITWeb, EuroSTAR, STAREast, STARWest, UKSTAR, Guild Conferences, Swiss Testing Days, Unicom, DevOps Summit, TestExpo and Vivit Community.
In his spare time he is the QA advisory lead for MIT for the COVID Paths Check foundation throughout the Coronavirus pandemic. He is also a member of Harvard Business Council, A.I. Alliance for the European Commission, chair of the review committee for the ISO-IEC 29119 part 8 “Model-Based Testing” and part 11 for the “Testing of A.I. based systems” for the British Computer Society (BCS SIGiST).
Jonathon also hosts the QA lead (based in Canada) and the author of several award-winning books (2010 – 2022) the latest the best selling book with Rex Black on ‘Artificial Intelligence for Testing’. He is the Programme Chair of AutomationSTAR 2026 in Antwerp Zoo