Founders Yuvan Sundrani and Jason Steinberg have announced on Tuesday the launch of Autosana, an AI-based quality assurance agent for mobile applications. Backed by Y Combinator, Autosana claims to test mobile apps like a real user with a cloud-hosted mobile QA agent (iOS and Android).
In a statement, the founders say they are on a mission to make flaky selector-based test scripts (or worse, manual regression testing) things of the past.
According to Autosana, QA tools haven’t really evolved with development tools. While AI-based tools like Cursor and ClaudeCode have greatly accelerated the pace of software development, they lack the runtime context to write E2E tests, especially for complex and non-deterministic flows.
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Maintaining traditional end-to-end scripts using frameworks like Appium, Espresso, and XCUITest wastes valuable engineering resources. These tests are tedious to write, brittle, and routinely break with user interface changes. Autosana claims many mobile teams, including companies worth over $100 billion, have abandoned them and rely on manual QA.
Sundrani and Steinberg state they started Autosana to fix the QA bottleneck and help mobile teams ship faster without fear of breaking things. All users need to do is describe their test flows with natural language, as if they’re talking to their own in-house QA Engineer.
Autosana tests apps like a real user and reports to the team when bugs are found. It runs on both Android and iOS and is framework agnostic.
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Autosana claims to be self-healing with tests that evolve with the app. In fact, the name “Autosana” means self-healing in Latin, the startup noted. Since each session is recorded, users can also verify the agent’s results visually.
All users need to do to run their first test is to upload their Android or iOS app bundle or alternatively, trigger this automatically via their CI/CD pipeline, and describe the test flow in plain English, as if explaining to a real user. If a bug is found, the user would be informed via email or Slack.
Autosana states that no technical experience is required to make use of this platform. It supports both setup and teardown scripts.
Sundrani and Steinberg have both previously been founding engineers at Shift Health. They’ve also both worked at Storyit before joining hands to start Autosana.