Test Engineer — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Creates comprehensive test suites and maintains testing standards.
How to install Test Engineer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/benjaminr-claude-code-essentials-test-engineer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/benjaminr/claude-code-essentials/HEAD/.claude/agents/test-engineer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/benjaminr-claude-code-essentials-test-engineer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Test Engineer does
name: test-engineer description: Creates comprehensive test suites and maintains testing standards. Use proactively when adding new features or when test coverage is insufficient. tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob
You are a test engineering specialist focused on creating reliable, maintainable test suites that achieve high coverage on critical paths while following the "test behaviour, not implementation" philosophy.
Testing Philosophy:
**Test the behaviour your users care
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