Balaji Santhana Krishnan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 11 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in AI-driven engineering and automation.
  • Proven track record of mentoring and advocating for AI learning.
  • Multiple hackathon wins and IEEE publications.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Engineering and Automation expert with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions in SaaS and Cloud Services.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality EngineeringDevopsAutomation

Other Skills

Workflow AutomationExecutive LeadershipSeleniumCypressAppiumPOSTMANCucumberData Quality FrameworkJenkinsGitLab RunnerDockerKubernetesPythonShell scriptingSecurity testing

About

I began my career as a software tester with one unusual gift — breaking things simply by using them. That instinct turned into a passion for Quality Engineering, Automation, DevOps, Data Engineering, and eventually AI. Over the years, I’ve built accelerators, authored IEEE papers, presented at global conferences, and won multiple hackathons where ideas became real products. Today, I focus on AI-driven engineering, building practical automations and intelligent workflows that make teams faster and happier. But more importantly, I’ve found my purpose: advocating AI learning for talented people who hesitate, fear it, or feel left behind. I love mentoring such folks, simplifying AI, and helping them start their journey with confidence — not confusion. I’ve worked across Banking, Finance, Cloud Products, Data Science, and AI workflow automation, and I thrive at the intersection of engineering, product thinking, and automation. And yes — my Kindle and Udemy backlog still prove I learn something new every day 😅.

Experience

13 yrs 11 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 5 mos
Average Tenure
3 mos
Current Experience

Nous infosystems

Practice Head

Feb 2026Present · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Infovision inc.

Associate Director

May 2025Feb 2026 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

  • Own end-to-end engineering delivery and account growth for a US-based Smart TV retail customer with annual engineering spend of USD 25M, spanning embedded development, quality engineering, DevOps, and data engineering.
  • Introduced multiple AI-led engineering and quality initiatives, contributing to an 8% increase in customer business within 7 months.
  • Scaled team strength from 45 to 68 engineers through structured capacity planning and demand forecasting.
  • Improved account contribution cost margins from 33% to 51% through tactical cost optimization, role rationalization, and delivery efficiency improvements.
  • Established strong delivery cadence and governance structures, increasing customer satisfaction scores by 25%.
  • Instituted quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with customer leadership to align on roadmap, outcomes, and growth opportunities.
  • Standardized hiring processes, metrics, and evaluation frameworks across the vertical, improving overall hiring quality.
  • Reduced attrition by 5% through quality hiring and career-focused team building.
  • Rolled out Agile and SAFe practices across customer programs, improving estimation accuracy, planning predictability, and execution transparency.
Workflow AutomationExecutive LeadershipQuality EngineeringDevOps

Altimetrik

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2023May 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Engineering Manager

Feb 2021Mar 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Handling a team of 25+ engineers - role includes architecting their career within Altimetrik, setting
  • goals, mentoring them to achieve them, and year-end appraisals.
  • Lead a team of developers to build applications using JAVA/Python/Javascript on
  • SprintBoot/Django/React.js frameworks respectively.
  • Builts frameworks around Cypress and Webdriver.io
  • Built in-house products and accelerators for Quality Engineering Practice
  • Test Practitioner for Quality Maturity Assessment/Audits of other organizations. The framework for assessment was built from scratch.
  • Lead and Supported Hiring for Rebound - Back to work program for Women on a Career break.
  • Mentored and coached Engineers to hire based on Culture Fitment along with required skills.

Technical Lead - Quality Engineering

Feb 2019Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Building Tools and Framework for Quality Engineering.
  • Automation Experience in Selenium,Cypress, Appium, POSTMAN & Cucumber.
  • Hands on with Data Quality Framework - Deequ
  • Programming languages worked with - Current : JAVA/SCALA | Past : Ruby, JS, Python and Clojure.
  • Devops experience in Jenkins, GitLab Runner, Docker and Kubernetes
  • Won Digital Disruptor award from Altimetrik.
  • Test Architect for Banking/Cloud Services/Big Data Projects.

Oracle

Senior Quality Engineer

Jun 2012Jan 2019 · 6 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Authored two IEEE publications and have attended Testing Conferences for the published papers.
  • Currently working on Oracle Service Cloud products. Apart from testing their products, I contribute my efforts for developing an internal framework within Oracle Cloud for introducing Chaos into the application to mimic real world customer scenarios. The framework includes introducing Network Latency, bringing services down when in action and other things to test the fault tolerance of Oracle Service Cloud in real world.
  • Developing/Maintaining Automation scripts using "Web Application Testing in Ruby" OR WATIR since 2012.
  • Strong Knowledge in Selenium with Python.
  • Good knowledge on Shell scripting, Configuring Jenkins to run Automation.
  • Good knowledge on Security testing using OWASP's tool ZAP.
  • The current role is combination of Scrum Testing,Regression Testing, Adding/Maintaining WATIR scripts, framework development for Fault Tolerance and Consultant for Code Review of new teams picking up WATIR.
  • Well Versed in Accessibility testing of applications and have good knowledge on using Screen readers like JAWS/VoiceOver(iOS).
  • Worked on VPAT documentations with the Product Manager for more than 1 product.
  • Management skills include leading a team for internal events such as Bug Bash and Hackathon multiple times.
  • Good documentation skills which includes making up many internal documents that were highly appreciated. Product managers find such documents very useful and they use my documents as a base to design Customer Documents.
  • Working knowledge on Jmeter.

Tata consultancy services

Software Test Engineer

May 2010Jun 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

  • Was working on CitiBank Application as a test engineer.
  • Worked on Selenium for Automation.
  • Coordinating requirements from Onshore Clients.
  • Creating/Maintaining Manual/Automation test scripts for regression testing.
  • Exposure to Database,Cross Browser,Accessibility and Functional testing as part of this organization.

Education

Anna University Chennai

Engineer’s Degree

Jan 2005Jan 2009

Indian School Muscat, Oman

High School

Jan 1994Jan 2005

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