SmartBear’s BearQ™ Agent Powers Autonomous Testing in Jira

SD Times News Roundup -- Sept. 16, 2026: SmartBear, Anthropic, VerseBlocks

SmartBear’s BearQ Agent Powers Autonomous Testing in Jira BearQ is a new assignable testing agent in Jira that autonomously tests agentic software development. BearQ, is now available as an assignable agent in Atlassian. “Jira is where work gets defined, and assignable agents help carry it out across the SDLC,” said Alan Braun, Head of Product... … continue reading

SmartBear’s BearQ™ Agent Powers Autonomous Testing in Jira

SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SmartBear, helping teams build, test, and ship quality software at AI speed and scale, today announced that its agentic QA system, BearQ, is now available as an assignable agent in Atlassian Jira – joining leading AI coding agents on the platform as an assignable agent built specifically for testing. As teams build governed agent loops in Jira to scale their work safely, BearQ brings that same discipline to te…