Jason Leyba
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Leyba is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 16 years at Google, progressing from Software Engineer in Test to senior staff leadership and based in Fremont, California. He specializes in test automation, reliability engineering, and improving large-scale developer tooling, with hands-on experience contributing to flagship open-source projects like Selenium and Appium. His commits show a practical focus on test robustness, deflaking flaky tests, and codebase hygiene—work that directly improves confidence in browser automation used across the industry. At Google he has bridged individual contributor excellence with cross-team impact, mentoring engineers and hardening critical test suites. He holds an MS in Computer Science from North Carolina State and a BS from Clemson, blending academic rigor with long-term production experience. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic quality engineering that scales across complex, widely used automation ecosystems.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Clemson UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (12)
javas10
selenium-ide10
webdriver10
selenium10
java10
test-automation10
automation9
automations9
xpath9
java-client9
javascript8
testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SeleniumHQ/selenium
Jul 2009 - Jul 2019
A browser automation framework and ecosystem.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1485 commits, 104 PRs, 231 pushes in 10 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason's commits primarily focus on improving test coverage and robustness within the Selenium project. The commits include adding new tests for various aspects of the WebDriver API, such as mouse interactions, window management, and the handling of alerts and other modal dialogs. Several commits are dedicated to deflaking existing tests, which indicates a focus on ensuring the reliability and stability of the test suite. The user also contributed towards improving the logging in the project by fixing a few issues.
dotnetpythonbrowserjavascriptruby
appium/java-client
Oct 2013 - Apr 2015
Java language binding for writing Appium Tests, conforms to W3C WebDriver Protocol
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:11 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason's commits focus on applying consistent copyright notices to various Java source files within the `appium/java-client` repository. These changes involve modifying existing code to adhere to a uniform copyright format, specifically using line comments. The revisions touch a range of core classes, indicating a systematic effort to standardize copyright information across the project's codebase. The impact of these changes is improved code maintainability and compliance with licensing standards.
bindingselenium-javawindowsappium-testsappium
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