Selenium
Balaji Chandra Sekaran
Technical Leader & Engineering Innovator
Guelph
Summary
Innovative and results-driven engineering leader with 17+ years of experience in building and leading lean, high-performing engineering teams across globally distributed environments. Skilled in creating scalable engineering practices that foster agile, high-quality software delivery. Technical hands-on leader with expertise across frontend, backend, QE, DevOps, and SRE domains, capable of coding daily and empowering teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Proven ability to transform engineering operations through strategic innovation, including patent-pending Gen AI solutions.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Head Of Engineering
RBC Royal Bank
Toronto, Ontario
01.2023 - Current
- Leading a globally distributed team of 100+ software engineers across multiple disciplines (frontend, backend, QE, DevOps, and SRE).
- Built 10 agile engineering squads from scratch to enhance innovation and delivery velocity.
- Delivered secure, client-facing applications in record time, leveraging scalable architecture and agile principles.
- Pioneered Gen AI solutions for RBC's GAM business, leading to a patent-pending innovation.
- Organized and led Gen AI workshops to build applications using Code Generation AI tools, setting strategic goals for 2025 engineering practices.
- Played versatile roles as a developer (frontend/backend/QE/DevOps) to support team success.
Director of Quality and DevOps Engineering
Royal Bank of Canada
Toronto, Ontario
06.2018 - 12.2022
- Built Quality & DevOps teams from scratch to drive organization towards continuous integration & continuous delivery model.
- Designed & implemented Test Pyramid strategy to enable early, efficient & reliable feedback using Test automation. Delivered 10000+ automated tests & manual tests for projects to deliver with confidence.
- Migrated 60+ micro services into continuous delivery model by building end to end pipelines with infrastructure as code with various quality gates including integrating with JMeter Performance test suites
- Reduced release cycle from 6 months to multiple times to production in a week using combination of pipelines with strong quality gates.
- Designed & Implemented test automation solution with virtualization using frameworks like BrowserMob Proxy, Hoverfly, etc., for reducing test data dependencies & a reliable functional validation.
Senior Software Developer in Test
Ethoca
Toronto, ON
06.2017 - 06.2018
- Designed & Developed 100+ end to end Test automation framework in protractor (TypeScript) & Rest API automation using Rest Assured library (Java)
- Developed performance testing framework for Kafka based messaging layer to deliver performance test suites
- Solved complex problems in file downloads in test automation by employing novel way of using proxy to intercept requests & accessing files so test can be automated & validated.
Senior Project Dev Consultant
NTT Data
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
09.2014 - 06.2017
- Innovated patented (#10162740) Solution named 'CI Runner' which helped to integrate test suites automated in various tools seamlessly into continuous delivery pipelines.
- Innovated another patented (#10528454) solution 'Logging as service' to aggregate & publish test execution logs from various test automation tools
- Designed & Developed Object oriented test automation framework & test automation suites in automation tool Sahi, Selenium & HP UFT.
- Integrated 200+ applications test suite to CICD pipelines seamlessly using CI Runner
Project Analyst
NTT Data India
10.2011 - 09.2014
- Designed & Developed 1000+ test automation cases using Model - View Controller framework in automation tool Sahi to provide reliable & credible test feedbacks.
- Integrated real time test data from REST APIs (dependent microservices) to test automation suites to avoid test data dependencies & establish a reliable & credible test automation.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Oracle
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
10.2010 - 10.2011
- Developed & executed 100+ manual tests for Oracle fusion CRM extensibility modules for end to end testing.
- Conducted several POCs for team to evaluate test automation tools & Frameworks.
Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
12.2007 - 10.2010
- Designed & Developed test automation framework in Quick Test Professional with principles of 'Parallel Automation' to develop test automation parallel to application development
- Reduced test automation development time by 60% with efficient parallel test automation framework
Education
Master of Mathematics in Computer Science - Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON 09.2022 - Current
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics
Anna University
Chennai, India 08.2003 - 05.2007
Skills
Technical Software Design & Architecture
Microservices & Cloud-Native Engineering
Generative AI (Gen AI) with RAGs
Leading Globally Distributed Teams
Agile Delivery & DevOps
Stakeholder & Product Management
Full-Stack Development
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Performance Optimization & Scalability
Strategic Planning & Roadmap Development
AI/ML Innovation
Mentorship & Talent Development
Software
Jenkins
Github
Cloud Foundry
Selenium
Core Java
Python
Urban Code Deploy
Accomplishments
- Holding two patents #10528454, #10162740 for innovation in integration of test automation & DevOps practices
- Built QA & DevOps team of 20+ team members from scratch & managing across offshore & onshore over 3 years.
- Demonstrated successful software development & delivery by working with various functional units like business, development, testing & release.
Timeline
Head Of Engineering
RBC Royal Bank
01.2023 - Current
Master of Mathematics in Computer Science - Computer Science
University of Waterloo
09.2022 - Current
Director of Quality and DevOps Engineering
Royal Bank of Canada
06.2018 - 12.2022
Senior Software Developer in Test
Ethoca
06.2017 - 06.2018
Senior Project Dev Consultant
NTT Data
09.2014 - 06.2017
Project Analyst
NTT Data India
10.2011 - 09.2014
Quality Assurance Engineer
Oracle
10.2010 - 10.2011
Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
12.2007 - 10.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics
Anna University
08.2003 - 05.2007
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