Sandal Iqbal

CEO

Australia20 yrs 3 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in software development and quality assurance.
Expertise in AI-driven automation and observability.
Proven track record in enhancing product reliability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on automation and quality assurance.

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Skills

Core Skills

PythonArtificial Intelligence (ai)ObservabilityBackend DevelopmentQuality AssuranceSoftware Development

Other Skills

AIAI-based toolsAI-based visual anomaly detectionAWSAirflowAlgorithmsAnomaly DetectionAppiumAutomated test code generationAutomated testsAutomation librariesAutomation toolsBrowserStackCOBOLCode Coverage

About

As a Principal Software Development Test Engineer at Balbix, I focus on designing and developing advanced developer tooling platforms that unify workflows for automation, monitoring, and validation systems. My expertise in Python and artificial intelligence enables the creation of innovative solutions such as GenAI-driven browser automation tooling and AI-based visual anomaly detection systems for dashboard monitoring. With over 20 years of experience in software development and quality assurance, I specialize in building scalable automation frameworks and observability stacks. My commitment to improving developer feedback loops and fostering efficient workflows aligns with my goal of enhancing product reliability and performance.

Experience

Balbix

Principal Software Development Engineer

Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos

Designed and developed internal developer tooling platform enabling unified workflows across automation, monitoring, and validation systems.
Built GenAI-driven browser automation tooling using Playwright MCP to accelerate testing and developer workflows.
Created AI-based visual anomaly detection system for dashboards (graphs, widgets, KPIs), improving issue detection speed.
Engineered full-stack observability stack using Prometheus + Grafana with custom metrics, alerts, and performance instrumentation.
Crafted Python-based GraphQL automation and validation utilities, improving coverage, resilience, and developer feedback loops.
Implemented backend utilities for negative testing of Kafka, AWS services, and Airflow environments to validate platform resilience.
Defined shift-left engineering strategy and onboarded teams to new tooling, improving engineering throughput and CI stability.

PythonArtificial Intelligence (AI)GenAI-driven browser automation toolingAI-based visual anomaly detectionObservability stackGraphQL automation+3

Xindus

Engineering Leader

Oct 2023 – Jul 2024 · 9 mos

Overseeing the QA activities like test case documentation, test case review, test case execution, product review, release and production support
Setting up automation tools and frameworks for backend and frontend
Guiding team to adopt AI based tools for test generation

QA activitiesAutomation toolsAI-based toolsQuality Assurance

Sixt

Staff Engineer in Test

Oct 2018 – Oct 2023 · 5 yrs

Staff QA responsible for benchmarking common QA practices, setting up common testing frameworks and tools and coordinating testing activities across different teams to resolve blockers and setting common testing standards
Built mobile app automation framework based on Java and Appium with Cl/CD integration and distributed parallel execution of tests
Wrote RESTful service using Springboot and kubernetes client to query kubernetes pods and used it for measuring code coverage of the services using Jacoco
Wrote a library using open source tool OWASP ZAP for performing DAST testing of the RESTful services
Performance testing of the backend services using Gatling
Integration of web page analytics using Google Lighthouse with web automation framework
Security testing of the mobile apps using MobSF

QA practicesTesting frameworksMobile app automationRESTful servicesPerformance testingQuality Assurance

Myntra

Technical Lead-Test

Jul 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Leading the QA team in daily sprint deliverables and being the point of contact for external team dependencies with our team
Visualised and conceptualised tool for automated test code generation for JAX-RS service to ease the process of automation using Java
Added reporting enhancements to the automation framework

Automated test code generationReporting enhancementsQuality Assurance

Ebay

Member of Technical Staff

Apr 2016 – Feb 2017 · 10 mos

Conceptualised the design of new framework which used latest technology being used in the organisation
Setting up standard design and coding practices to be followed by the team
Automated both RESTful and SOAP services

Framework designStandard design practicesRESTful and SOAP services automationSoftware Development

Ariba

Senior Quality Specialist

May 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos

Developed test plan for the project related to encryption of data stored in the database
Code reviews for the development code and appropriate suggestions on design and development
Wrote libraries and classes to help in automation

Test plan developmentCode reviewsAutomation librariesQuality Assurance

Amazon

Software Development Engineer in Test

Sep 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and developed Selenium based automation framework for functional testing of order pipeline of the website
Developed a Perl based scripting tool for automating package verification process during deployments which helped greatly reduce manual effort
Enhanced the existing automation framework to reduce test execution time
Also worked on projects related to responsive web design and latency improvements

SeleniumPerl scriptingResponsive web designSoftware Development

Clickable

Senior Test Engineer

Jul 2009 – Sep 2011 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Built end-to-end deployment pipeline using cruise control
Built Selenium based automation framework for web automation
Wrote utility tools to help during deployment process
Contributed to writing unit tests and measured their coverage

Deployment pipelineSelenium automationUtility toolsSoftware Development

Microsoft

Software Development Engineer in Test

Mar 2006 – Jun 2009 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Owning windows components like http.sys winhttp and ICS
Creating test plan and execution of automated tests for these components
One-click automation framework to perform all the setup and execution in one click

Test plan creationAutomated testsSoftware Development