# Is There a Free Jira Alternative for QA Teams in the Agent Era? **URL:** \ **Category:** Web Testing\ **Tags:** ai\ **Created:** [September 11, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-there-a-free-jira-alternative-for-qa-teams-in-the-agent-era/193889 "2026-09-11T12:47:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![luc.dev01234](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luc.dev01234](https://forum.katalon.com/u/luc.dev01234)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 12:47pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-there-a-free-jira-alternative-for-qa-teams-in-the-agent-era/193889/1 "2026-09-11T12:47:47Z")
As AI agents become more involved in testing, test management is starting to look different. For QA teams using multiple agents, I’m wondering whether a free Jira alternative could provide a better workflow for: - Assigning testing tasks to humans and AI agents - Tracking agent work alongside test activities - Sharing context across agents and testers - Running testing tasks in parallel - Keeping humans responsible for validation I’ve been exploring Sharkly.ai, which takes an interesting approach by bringing AI agents and human teammates into the same project workflow. Katalon users are already discussing multi-agent orchestration and how agents can share context. For teams entering this agent era, what would you expect from a free Jira alternative? Would you want AI agents to have their own tasks and responsibilities inside the same project workflow? ---
**Author:** ![arvind.choudhary](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/arvind.choudhary/32/33165_2.png) [@arvind.choudhary](https://forum.katalon.com/u/arvind.choudhary)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-there-a-free-jira-alternative-for-qa-teams-in-the-agent-era/193889/2 "2026-09-11T13:00:09Z")
Are you from Sharkly.ai marketing team? ---
**Author:** ![arvind.choudhary](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/arvind.choudhary/32/33165_2.png) [@arvind.choudhary](https://forum.katalon.com/u/arvind.choudhary)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2026, 1:00pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-there-a-free-jira-alternative-for-qa-teams-in-the-agent-era/193889/3 "2026-09-11T13:00:50Z")
Why don’t you provide url and other details. We have been waiting for it since you last post ---
**Author:** ![dineshh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/dineshh/32/24488_2.png) [@dineshh](https://forum.katalon.com/u/dineshh)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-there-a-free-jira-alternative-for-qa-teams-in-the-agent-era/193889/4 "2026-09-12T09:39:28Z")
Can you share exploration use case on Sharkly.ai ---
**Author:** ![akshay\_sartabe](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/akshay_sartabe/32/23870_2.png) [@akshay\_sartabe](https://forum.katalon.com/u/akshay_sartabe)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 8:07pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-there-a-free-jira-alternative-for-qa-teams-in-the-agent-era/193889/5 "2026-09-12T20:07:55Z")
Best place to market a product… Right?? ---
**Author:** ![depapp](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/depapp/32/29178_2.png) [@depapp](https://forum.katalon.com/u/depapp)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-there-a-free-jira-alternative-for-qa-teams-in-the-agent-era/193889/6 "2026-09-15T09:39:11Z")
> [@arvind.choudhary](#): > > Are you from Sharkly.ai marketing team? so this guy act like he got the problem and suggesting his product 🤣 nice move 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![dineshh](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/dineshh/32/24488_2.png) [@dineshh](https://forum.katalon.com/u/dineshh)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2026, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/is-there-a-free-jira-alternative-for-qa-teams-in-the-agent-era/193889/7 "2026-09-24T04:12:59Z")
Can you respond to the query