Nainappa Illi
Staff Software Development Engineer In Test at Selenium Ocean
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolNainappa Illi is a Staff Software Development Engineer in Test with nine years of experience building robust QA solutions and automation suites for companies including Apple, eBay, DocuSign, and Pearson. He blends deep programming skills in Java, Python, C#, and JavaScript with practical tooling expertise across Selenium, Robot Framework, RESTAssured, JMeter, and security/accessibility tooling like ZAP and aXe-core. Nainappa builds developer-friendly frameworks and utilities—examples include a PDF Automator using Lucene and PDFBox, an aXe-chrome-accessibility framework, and an XML+XSLT-driven TestExecutionReport—many of which are published as open-source on GitHub. He maintains a long-running tech blog, Selenium Ocean, and contributes to SeleniumHQ content, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to community knowledge sharing. Colleagues rely on him to solve tricky problems such as visual/look-and-feel validation, OCR-driven desktop automation, and automated accessibility and security audits. He favors challenging environments that push new learning and tool development, pairing pragmatic engineering with a knack for reproducible, auditable QA processes.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering at JNTU Anantapur
English, Telugu
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Github Skills (17)
selenium-webdriver10
hugo10
selenium10
automation-testing8
restassured8
restful6
selenium-ide6
java6
pdf5
accessibility4
lighthouse4
testing4
automation4
auditing4
testng3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nainappa/aXe-chrome-accessibility
Nov 2017 - Feb 2022
This repo will help the users to automate accessibility auditing. It provides PDF report with comprehensive auditing results. It also gives the reference URLs for the users to follow the best practices.
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 4 years 3 months
urlspdffollowreportlighthouse
nainappa/ConfianceAPIAutomationFramework
Apr 2018 - Feb 2022
This is very simple yet powerful automation framework for RESTFul WebServices automation based on JAVA.
Contributions:32 commits, 9 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 10 months
automation-testingrestfulsimple-yet-powerfulautomationrestful-webservices
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