Agentic AI Test Execution inside Jira with Xray and Lynqa

AI is transforming every stage of software testing, from requirement analysis to how teams design test cases, execute them, and build automation. Some organizations are already deep into that journey. Others are just getting started. Wherever you are, Xray and Lynqa meet you there, offering step-by-step AI assistance for every testing activity, directly inside Jira. One philosophy: AI assists, humans control.

Xray already brings AI to transform Jira requirements into actionable test cases, with AI Test Case Generation. And when a test case is validated, Xray can convert it into an automation script in the framework (Selenium, Playwright) and language (Java, Python) of your choice.

But there is a phase every QA team knows intimately: manual execution. The application is live, the feature is new, the flow isn’t stable enough to script yet, too costly to automate. In most organizations, 60 to 80% of test cases remain manual. This puts constant pressure on QA teams: high execution cost, repetitive tasks prone to error, and peak load that no team can absorb fast enough.

That’s exactly the gap that Xray and Lynqa close together.

Every QA team knows the feeling. A release is coming, the backlog is growing, and there is simply not enough time to run everything. Coverage gets reduced. Shortcuts get taken. Evidence gets skipped. Quality risk quietly builds up.

Manual test execution depends entirely on human time, always limited, always expensive, and always pulled in too many directions. The pain points are well known:

Scripted automation helps, but only up to a point. It pays off for stable, well-defined flows that run every build, but it requires technical skills to build and maintain. For everything else: new features, evolving journeys, and scenarios that change every sprint – teams are back to manual execution. 

The result is a team simultaneously overloaded and under-covered, producing evidence that is inconsistent at best and absent at worst. There has to be a better way.

Xray and Lynqa together bring a simple but powerful answer: your existing manual or Cucumber tests, run automatically by Agentic AI, with structured evidence saved directly in Xray, without changing how your team works.

Lynqa connects natively to Xray and is ready in a few minutes. No new tool to learn, no process to redesign, no tests to rewrite. The Xray-Lynqa integration offers seamless execution, mimicking testers’ reasoning at every step, dynamically analyzing the interface, performing required actions, and verifying results. When something unexpected happens, it tells you exactly where and why, with evidence.

That evidence, once reviewed by QA, lands directly in Xray, giving your team consistent, traceable, standardized  data to make confident release decisions. And because everything lives inside Xray, full reporting and traceability are immediately available: requirement coverage, execution progress, defect links, and release readiness. All in one place.

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In the Xray ecosystem, two AI approaches to test automation are now production-ready. 

Used together, they cover the full test lifecycle, from first execution to stable automation, without duplication, without waste, and without leaving Xray.

Choose the manual or Gherkin test cases you want to run, individually or as a batch, directly from your Xray Test Execution work items. No preparation, no adaptation,  your tests are ready to execute as they are.

Pick your target environment and start the run in one click. Lynqa reads your natural-language test steps and performs every action in your web application: navigation, clicks, form inputs, exactly as instructed in your steps.

At each step, Lynqa describes performed actions and checks expected results and captures screenshots. The execution evidence is clear, consistent, and traceable. 

Your team reviews execution reports, validates results, and identifies any anomalies without leaving Jira. Once reviewed, evidence and execution status are saved in Xray in one click. AI executes, humans own the final verdict.

From there, Xray takes over: track coverage across requirements, monitor test execution progress, follow defect traceability, and generate release-ready reports. The Xray-Lynqa integration execution enriches your quality dashboard, giving QA managers and stakeholders a complete, real-time picture of where the product stands.

The testing lifecycle has always demanded more and more effort: faster delivery, better coverage, faster execution, better evidence, cleaner reporting. With Xray and Lynqa, that gap closes. AI assists in every testing activity, from test design to automatic execution of your manual test cases. 

Everything connected in one place: requirements, tests, results, coverage, and defects. And through it all, your team stays in control: validating results, making decisions. AI in testing is only as valuable as the traceability and control it provides. 

That is why Xray and Lynqa were built around the same principle: AI assists, humans decide. Together, they free your team from repetitive runs, giving them back the time to focus on what matters most.