New agent brings verification-first development to engineering teams, eliminating multi-day QA cycles while building a culture of quality ownership

SILICON VALLEY, Calif., June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Zencoder announces the public beta of Zentester, an AI-powered agent that transforms end-to-end (E2E) testing from a bottleneck into an accelerator. This breakthrough enables development teams to move from "vibe coding" to production-ready software by accelerating quality assurance and providing instant verification within developer workflows.

While AI coding assistants have revolutionized code generation, the gap between writing code and shipping reliable software remains vast. Teams need faster feedback loops, and E2E testing - the final verification that software actually works - continues to be a manual, brittle process that can add days or weeks to release cycles.

"Verification is the missing link in scaling AI-driven development from experimentation to production," said Andrew Filev, CEO and Founder of Zencoder. "Zentester doesn't just generate tests - it gives developers the confidence to ship by validating that their AI-generated or human-written code does what it's supposed to do."

From Days to Hours: Accelerating Development Velocity

In a typical engineering process, after a developer builds a feature and sends it to QA, they receive feedback several days later. By then, they have moved to the next feature, and have to either finish it or drop it midway. This context switching and back-and-forth, especially painful during release crunches, can stretch simple fixes into week-long ordeals.

Zentester sees and interacts with applications as users do—clicking buttons, filling forms, navigating flows, and validating both UI state and backend responses. The agent can take scenarios in plain English without wrestling with scripting frameworks. This brings comprehensive E2E testing directly to the engineer's fingertips—both in their IDE through Zencoder's existing integrations and in CI/CD pipelines via Zen Agents for CI. It enables five mutually supportive use cases:

1. Developer-Led Quality : Engineers run Zentester during feature development to catch issues immediately, eliminating the "throw it over the wall" mentality.
2. QA Acceleration : QA engineers use Zentester to rapidly build comprehensive test suites, allowing them to keep up with the growing amount of human and AI-written code, and improving code coverage.
3.  Quality Improvement for AI Coding Agents: By integrating these capabilities with your coding agents, the agents can self-verify and self-improve.
4. Healing Tests: As companies evolve their software, many of their existing E2E tests break, making it expensive to maintain comprehensive regression suites. AI-powered test generation makes it quicker and cheaper to adapt the tests at the pace of development.
5. Autonomous Verification : In CI/CD pipelines, Zentester can continuously validate updates, enabling true continuous delivery.

This breakthrough is the next step on Zencoder's mission to help companies ship better software faster. Early adopters are already experiencing dramatic improvements in their development velocity. "Zencoder's unit test agent already generates better tests than any tool we've tried—they actually compile and run. Now Zentester is doing the same for E2E testing. What took our QA team a couple of days now takes developers 2 hours. Game changer," said Mike Cervino, CEO at Club Solutions Group.

To accelerate your team's velocity and improve automated test coverage, visit https://zencoder.ai/product/zentester

About Zencoder

Zencoder delivers AI agents for software engineering that integrate directly into developers' existing workflows. Founded by serial entrepreneur Andrew Filev and powered by a global team of 50+ engineers, Zencoder combines deep code understanding with autonomous AI capabilities to help organizations ship impactful software faster. The company holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 certifications for enterprise security and responsible AI management.

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