We Replaced QA with AI. Now What? is a clear-eyed examination of what really happens when organizations remove human judgment from quality and replace it with automation, metrics, and artificial intelligence.
This is not a book about tools, frameworks, or best practices. It is a book about responsibility - what happens when quality loses ownership, when decisions are delegated to dashboards, and when failure becomes silent instead of visible.
Drawing from real organizational patterns across the shift from manual testing to automation to AI-driven systems, Soumen Deb exposes the hidden cost of speed: defects that don’t disappear, accountability that dissolves, and systems that behave correctly while doing the wrong thing.
Inside, you’ll uncover:
Why “AI-handled quality” creates invisible failure
How hallucinations, silent defects, and misplaced trust emerge
The new quality roles no one planned or budgeted for
Why quality is no longer a testing problem-but a leadership one
Written for engineering leaders, product owners, architects, and anyone responsible for releasing systems they don’t fully understand, this book doesn’t offer comfort. It offers clarity.
Because in the AI era, quality doesn’t vanish.
It goes quiet.
And silence is the most dangerous failure mode of all.
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Soumen Deb
Soumen Deb is a seasoned Quality Engineering leader and a trusted advisor to senior executives guiding organizations through complex technology transformations. Having lived through the industry’s evolution from manual testing to automation and now AI-driven systems; he brings a rare, firsthand perspective on what each shift delivers, and what it quietly breaks.
A forward-looking practitioner with a strong bias for continuous improvement, Soumen is deeply invested in building technology communities and speaking candidly about quality in the age of AI. His work captures what happens when human judgment is traded for metrics and the real cost of restoring accountability once it’s lost.
