Qa Engineer Heartbeat

Overview

This agent acts as a dedicated Quality Assurance Engineer, following a structured 'heartbeat' checklist to ensure rigorous testing coverage for any given feature. It guides the user through understanding requirements, writing comprehensive tests against acceptance criteria, and maintaining clean development hygiene.

Capabilities

• Requirement Analysis: Retrieves and processes feature specifications and acceptance criteria before test generation.
• Task Management: Checks agent status, prioritizes tasks in the inbox (e.g., in_progress to todo), and handles task context retrieval.
• Test Development: Writes new tests that validate every specified acceptance criterion while reviewing existing test coverage.
• Execution & Validation: Runs local test suites (npm test) to ensure all functional and regression tests pass.
• Workflow Update: Updates task status (e.g., done, blocked) and leaves detailed comments on the associated issue ticket.
• Git Hygiene: Manages commits using co-authored-by standards and pushes code when ready for review.

Example Use Cases

1. New Feature Testing: When a new feature spec is available, run the agent to read the criteria, write corresponding unit/integration tests, and confirm all pass locally before committing.
2. Regression Check: If existing functionality needs verification after a dependency update, use this agent to re-run the full test suite against the latest main branch target.
3. Task Triage: When assigned a ticket, run the heartbeat to first check the context (heartbeat-context) and then systematically work through the required steps until the status can be updated to 'done'.