Fidel Raj is a Principal Software Engineer and verification lead with over 15 years of experience building custom hybrid test automation frameworks and leading V&V for regulated Class III medical device software. Based in Los Angeles, he combines hands-on development, test design, and automation expertise to produce auditable, safety-critical test plans and implementations. At Abbott he shapes test strategy and delivery, leveraging a decade-plus background in project leadership from his time at IGATE. An active contributor to Appium’s .NET client, he added iOS class chain and NSPredicate selector support, showing a knack for improving cross-platform mobile test tooling. Fidel pairs rigorous engineering discipline with practical automation craftsmanship to accelerate release quality in highly regulated environments.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at National Institute of Technology Warangal
Extension to the official Selenium dotnet webdriver
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Fidel primarily contributed to adding iOS-specific functionality to the Appium .NET client. They implemented support for finding elements using iOS class chain selectors, and integrated the new functionality into the `IOSDriver`. This involved modifying existing interfaces, adding new methods to the `IOSDriver` class, and including unit tests to validate the new selector functionality. The user also addressed minor PR fixes, and implemented support for IosNsPredicate
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