He won the National Film Award for Best Editing for Jersey (2019).

Music director Devi Sri Prasad, whom he worked with in S/O Satyamurthy (2015), recommended him to Sukumar and thus, enabled him to become the editor for Nannaku Prematho (2016).

In a review of the film by The Times of India, the reviewer wrote that "Naveen Nooli too does a good job with the editing with the film.

despite its long runtime and laggy bits not ending up seeming like a cricket documentary".

[5] In May 2024, it was reported that editors Karthika Srinivas and Ruben were replaced by Nooli in Pushpa 2: The Rule (2024), due to conflicts in scheduling.