Readable tests that resolve user-facing labels and roles instead of brittle selectors.
Author
Abhay Kumar — QA engineer building tools he wished he had.
I'm a QA engineer and the creator of OrbitTest, an intent-first browser, Android, and API testing platform. I write about the testing problems I actually hit at work — flaky suites, unclear failures, mobile device friction, and APIs that drift out of contract.
- Browser test automation
- Android & mobile QA
- API testing
- CI/CD & diagnostics
- Web security
Background
Testing work, written down so it's reusable.
My day-to-day is quality engineering: deciding what to automate, keeping browser and mobile suites trustworthy in CI, and turning vague bug reports into reproducible evidence. Most of what I publish here started as notes to myself after solving the same problem twice.
OrbitTest grew directly out of that work. Tests kept failing for reasons users never experienced — a moved DOM wrapper, a renamed class, a stale selector — so I built an automation API that targets what the user actually sees: labels, roles, and visible text. That idea now spans browser automation, Orbittest Studio for Android, and the Orbittest Client API workstation.
ADB, UIAutomator, device mirroring, and logcat turned into reproducible reports.
Requests, collections, schema-drift detection, and mock servers, run locally.
OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and PKCE explained for the teams who have to ship them.
What I Write About
Practical guides, grouped by topic.
Every article on this site is written and reviewed by me. Browse a topic, or read everything on the blog.
Browser Testing
Intent-first automation, readable tests, selectors, reports, traces, and CI workflows.
Android Testing
Orbittest Studio, ADB, UIAutomator, device logs, mirroring, and mobile test evidence.
Web Security
Authentication, authorization, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, PKCE, tokens, and sessions.
Cloud & Data
Cloud cost control and data engineering — lean pipelines, right-sizing, and governance.
Get in touch
Questions, feedback, or collaboration.
For product questions, documentation feedback, responsible security coordination, or collaboration ideas, LinkedIn is the best way to reach me. OrbitTest itself is open on GitHub.