Balaji Santhanagopalan

Project Manager

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India7 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Model-based Systems Engineering and software testing.
Proven track record in application support and customer interaction.
Strong programming skills in Python and MATLAB.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Testing Specialist with expertise in Model-based Systems Engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Model-based Systems Engineering (mbse)Application SupportTestingSoftware Testing

Other Skills

API TestingAcademic content writingAcceptance testsAgile MethodologiesAutomation scenariosAutomation scriptsAutomation toolsCompatibility TestingConfluenceCross-team collaborationCustomer supportFunctional TestingGitInteroperability TestingJIRA

About

Hello, Welcome to my profile! This is Balaji Santhanagopalan working as a software tester at Siemens Digital Industries, Chennai. I am an experienced software tester in the field of Model-based systems engineering(Systems simulation domain). I am also having experience as an application support engineer providing support to customer support, pre-sales and engineering services team. These are my skill sets. Testing Knowledge: Functional, Usability, Compatibility and Interoperability testing for websites and desktop applications Programming knowledge : Python, Matlab/Simulink scripting Automation tools/knowledge : GUI - Squish Qt using Python, API - REST API and GRPC using Python Version control tools: Tortoise SVN, Git CI/CD: Jenkins ALM tools: JIRA, Polarion, Confluence OS Knowledge: Windows 10/11 and Linux - Ubuntu and CENTOS Software that I tested/provided application support : Simcenter Amesim, Simcenter Client for Git(Web+Desktop client), Simcenter System Architect, Simcenter System Analyst and Matlab and Simulink Domain: Mechatronics, Embedded systems software, Model-based systems engineering

Experience

Siemens digital industries software

3 roles

Project Test Engineer Advanced

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

1. Involved in the creation of version compatibility automation framework for validating different versions of Simcenter System Analyst and Simcenter Amesim with different versions of Simcenter client for git to improve the compatibility of the products which interacts each other
2. Taking temporary responsibility(about 6-7 months from August 2025 onwards) as an application support engineer for handling support activities for Simcenter System Analyst and Simcenter Amesim where I need to handle queries coming from customer support teams, Engineering services teams , Pre-sales teams and other stakeholders

Version compatibility automation frameworkSimcenter System AnalystSimcenter AmesimSimcenter client for gitApplication supportModel-based Systems Engineering (MBSE)+1

Project Test Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs

1. Responsible for conducting brainstorming for creating acceptance tests for the user story
2. Help automation people to identify scenarios for automation using squish qt tool
3. Analyze and inform risks during refinement meetings. Having regular exchanges with developers and product owners.
4. Involved in answering customer-related queries and appointed as support administrator in a rotation basis to handle and assign customer support tasks to developers.
5. Appointed as a Product expert for Simcenter Amesim software for identifying compatibility risks as the software interacts with multiple internal and external software.
6. Taking responsibility for working on software interoperability testing(Cross product testing) for a model based systems framework development(MBSE) implementation for four different software: Simcenter Amesim, Simcenter System Architect, Simcenter System Analyst and Simcenter client for git.

Acceptance testsAutomation scenariosRisk analysisCustomer supportModel-based Systems Engineering (MBSE)Testing

Test Engineer

Nov 2018 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs 2 mos

1. Responsible for testing a software product called Simcenter Amesim(Mechatronics simulation software) under Windows10 and Linux(Ubuntu/CentOS)
2. Helping developers and product owners during user story grooming meeting and writing acceptance tests for user stories
3. Having experience in working with cross teams.
4. Took up the role of test coordinator for Amesim-Xcelerator share integration project which involves planning and organizing testing activities that also include pair testing with presales engineer and software developer
5. Involved in testing license installers and license usage for Simcenter Amesim
6. Using Amesim Embedded Python APIs and Squish for Qt framework for creating automation scripts
7. Checking test results through Jenkins
8. Creating test scenarios documents for new features
9. Proposing improvements for the testing process

Simcenter AmesimCross-team collaborationTest coordinationAutomation scriptsSoftware TestingModel-based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Sysenso systems private limited

Engineer

Sep 2018 – Oct 2018 · 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

Trained on MATLAB and SIMULINK software and basics of python programming

MATLABSIMULINKPython programming

Synergy eduservices

Freelance academic content writer

Apr 2018 – Sep 2018 · 5 mos · work from home

Prepared competitive exam questions for physics, mechanical engineering and other subjects as a freelancer started during my final year in Engineering.
Learnt how to create questions using different sources and understood about Plagiarism
Used Microsoft word for writing down the questions

Academic content writingQuestion preparation