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Volta Jebaprashanth

Senior SDET, Java-first: Selenium, REST Assured, Pact, performance, CI/CD. Creator of XPathy — a fluent Java DSL for locators. Building MCP-based dev tools on the side. Learning German (A1).

Education

Computer Science and Technology | Uva Wellassa University

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The Wait Condition You Actually Need Almost Never Matches the One You Wrote

The Wait Condition You Actually Need Almost Never Matches the One You Wrote

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I Looked at Every Selenium MCP Server I Could Find Before Building My Own. Here's the Actual Landscape.

I Looked at Every Selenium MCP Server I Could Find Before Building My Own. Here's the Actual Landscape.

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Your Bank's QA Team Isn't Rewriting Ten Years of Selenium Tests for Anything. Here's What They Can Actually Adopt.

Your Bank's QA Team Isn't Rewriting Ten Years of Selenium Tests for Anything. Here's What They Can Actually Adopt.

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From Zero to a Working Selenium Test, Written by an AI Agent That Can Actually See the Page

From Zero to a Working Selenium Test, Written by an AI Agent That Can Actually See the Page

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No, Your Team Doesn't Need to Rewrite Its Selenium Suite in Playwright to Get AI-Assisted Testing

No, Your Team Doesn't Need to Rewrite Its Selenium Suite in Playwright to Get AI-Assisted Testing

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I Didn't Want an AI Tool That Pollutes My Test Codebase. Here's How the Architecture Prevents That.

I Didn't Want an AI Tool That Pollutes My Test Codebase. Here's How the Architecture Prevents That.

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REST Assured Doesn't Have an Official AI Tool Yet. Here's Why That Matters More Than It Sounds.

REST Assured Doesn't Have an Official AI Tool Yet. Here's Why That Matters More Than It Sounds.

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Your Selenium Test Isn't Flaky. Your Backend Is Just Slower Than Your Thread.sleep().

Your Selenium Test Isn't Flaky. Your Backend Is Just Slower Than Your Thread.sleep().

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How to Get an AI Coding Assistant to Write a Correct Selenium Locator on the First Try

How to Get an AI Coding Assistant to Write a Correct Selenium Locator on the First Try

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Java and Selenium Test Engineers Have Been Left Out of the AI Coding Wave. Not Anymore.

Java and Selenium Test Engineers Have Been Left Out of the AI Coding Wave. Not Anymore.

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The AI-Native Frontier: Redefining the Future of Quality Engineering

The AI-Native Frontier: Redefining the Future of Quality Engineering

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Raw XPath is Dead: How XPathy's Fluent API Solves Your Flaky Test Problem

Raw XPath is Dead: How XPathy's Fluent API Solves Your Flaky Test Problem

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Stop Writing Flaky Selenium Tests: meet XPathy - The Java Library That Fixes XPath Complexity

Stop Writing Flaky Selenium Tests: meet XPathy - The Java Library That Fixes XPath Complexity

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Meet XPathy: The Fluent Java API That Makes Raw XPath Obsolete

Meet XPathy: The Fluent Java API That Makes Raw XPath Obsolete

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Beyond Parent/Child: Navigating the DOM Tree Fluently with XPathy

Beyond Parent/Child: Navigating the DOM Tree Fluently with XPathy

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How We Eliminated 90% of Our Locator Failures Using Value Transformations with XPathy

How We Eliminated 90% of Our Locator Failures Using Value Transformations with XPathy

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The Automated Tester's Secret Weapon: Build Robust XPaths in Seconds, Not Minutes (With XPathy)

The Automated Tester's Secret Weapon: Build Robust XPaths in Seconds, Not Minutes (With XPathy)

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From String Soup to Fluent Code: Reinventing XPath in Java with XPathy 🚀

From String Soup to Fluent Code: Reinventing XPath in Java with XPathy 🚀

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XPathy: A Fluent API for Writing Smarter, Cleaner XPath in Selenium

XPathy: A Fluent API for Writing Smarter, Cleaner XPath in Selenium

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Mastering Attribute-Based Locators in Selenium with XPathy

Mastering Attribute-Based Locators in Selenium with XPathy

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