BrowserStack Meetup Dubai: Building Local AI Agents for Web Test Automation

Traditional web test automation often struggles with dynamic user interfaces and selector maintenance, consuming valuable QA time. Relying on black-box AI solutions can also feel opaque and costly, leaving teams without true control over their testing infrastructure.
​This hands-on workshop empowers QA engineers and developers to master self-hosted AI agents for web test automation. You'll build a practical, self-healing Playwright test suite from scratch using open-weights models. Gain code-level understanding and reduce your reliance on external services.
​Reserve your spot today to master the future of testing and reclaim control over your automation strategy.

## ​What Will You Learn

• ​You'll build a working AI agent from scratch, understanding its core components: model, tool, loop, and stop condition.
• ​You'll learn to get reliable, schema-checked output from self-hosted open-weights models, never relying on paid hosted services.
• ​You'll master generating stable, verified Playwright locators from a live page and implementing self-healing test suites.
• ​You'll grasp the real costs and benefits of running AI-assisted testing on your own infrastructure.

## ​Agenda

• ​11:00 AM GST: Introduction & framing
• ​11:15 AM GST: Setting up the harness
• ​11:35 AM GST: An agent from scratch
• ​11:55 AM GST: Moving to LangChain & LangGraph
• ​12:15 PM GST: Break
• ​12:35 PM GST: Agent 1 — the explorer
• ​12:55 PM GST: Agent 2 — locators & test cases
• ​01:20 PM GST: Agent 3 — the test builder
• ​01:40 PM GST: The self-healing loop
• ​01:55 PM GST: The full run & wrap-up

## ​What partcipants need to bring

• ​A laptop with Python 3.11+, Node.js 20+ and the uv package manager installed.
• ​The workshop repository, cloned and set up before the session.
• ​A free Lightpanda Cloud API token, from console.lightpanda.io. The token is shown only once, so generate and save it in advance.
• ​Access to a model server (Ollama or llama.cpp): its address, a model name and an API key. (Optional - If you don't have one ready, we'll help you set it up on the day.

## ​Who Should Attend

• ​QA engineers
• ​SDETs
• ​Developers who write automated tests
• ​Python developers keen on AI in testing If you're ready to transform your approach to test automation and understand AI agents at a code level, this workshop is for you. Reserve your spot today.