Brendan Connolly
Staff SDET at AppFolio
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrendan Connolly is a Staff SDET based in Santa Barbara with 11 years of hands-on experience building test automation, QA tooling, and quality strategies across startups and mid-size companies. He’s led quality teams as Director of Quality Engineering and Director of QA, and now applies that leadership at AppFolio while continuing to write code and automation frameworks. An award-winning community contributor and Test Automation University instructor, he combines public speaking and teaching with practical engineering to make testing faster and more reliable. Brendan’s background spans UI automation, API and integration testing, CI/CD orchestration, and bespoke tooling—often turning repetitive QA pain points into reusable developer-focused solutions. Notably, he brings a business-adjacent perspective from a Business Administration degree, enabling pragmatic trade-offs between product velocity and measurable risk reduction.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Business Administration and Management General, Business Administration and Management General at Regis University
Github Skills (27)
testing10
xunit10
ruby10
ui-testing9
gdax-api9
driver9
test-automation8
windows-application8
appium8
trading7
coinbase7
nodejs-library7
ethereum6
bitcoin6
assertion6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
brendanconnolly/Xunit.Categories
Nov 2016 - Jun 2021
Friendlier attributes to help categorize your tests
Contributions:7 reviews, 24 commits, 28 PRs in 4 years 7 months
xunitcategorize
brendanconnolly/Hodler
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 8 months
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