Balaji Ganesan
Staff Software Test Engineer at Visa
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBalaji Ganesan is a Staff Software Test Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building end-to-end automation frameworks for web and mobile applications and driving microservice testing across enterprise environments. He has deep expertise in Selenium, Appium, WebDriverIO, Cypress, and contract/API testing (ReadyAPI, RestAssured, Pact), and routinely integrates test automation into CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Jenkins. Comfortable in cloud-native toolchains, Balaji creates Docker images for test tooling, works with Kubernetes/Openshift and Helm, and leverages observability stacks like Splunk, ELK and Jaeger for robust logging and tracing. He has led distributed teams of up to 10 engineers, served as code maintainer for organizational automation projects, and combines practical test engineering with static quality gates (SonarQube, PMD) and NoSQL/messaging validation (Couchbase, Kafka). Known for turning complex requirements into maintainable automation architectures, he also brings unusual depth in containerizing test ecosystems and building synthetic monitoring and reporting dashboards for stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Biology, General, High School, Biology, General at Avichi Higher Secondary SchoolBachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University Chennai
Tamil, English
Github Skills (22)
webdriver10
ios9
windows9
android9
automation9
appium9
w3c9
test-automation9
automation-framework9
macos9
selenium7
selenium-server7
selenium-grid7
containerization7
devops6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
balajig18/AppiumDemoProject
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 8 months
balajig18/home_project
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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