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Simon Knott

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Senior Software Engineer Playwright Core Team, Microsoft

Simon Knott is a Senior Software Engineer on the Playwright Core Team at Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, he worked on developer tooling at Netlify and studied at the Hasso Plattner Institute near Berlin. Simon’s work focuses on enhancing developer experience through smarter, faster, and more reliable testing solutions. His passion for practical innovation continues to shape the future of automation at scale.

Bio from: Introduction to Playwright Agents | 10th Berlin Meetup

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In this session, Simon Knott will explore how Playwright Agents can help you write and maintain tests using agentic loops like Claude Code or GitHub Copilot. You’ll learn how these agents work not just in demos but in real production apps, whether you have existing test coverage or are starting fresh. Simon will also dive into what’s happening under the hood and unpack the key challenges of making agentic test generation reliable and efficient.