
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Red Hat
In his current role as a senior engineering manager at Red Hat, Deepak is focused on building digital experiences for Red Hat Partners. He works closely with his team to identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and product design improvements.
Topic – What We Got Wrong With AI Test Agents and the Workflow That Fixed It
When AI agents first hit the scene, my team went all in. We connected code generators to Jira via MCP servers, built automation agents that wrote test cases and had dozens of automated tests ready in minutes for every change that arrived in QA. We felt incredibly productive.
But that feeling was an illusion.