Balaji Shanmugam
Automation Manager (Quality and Testing) at NCS Group Australia- Claim this Profile
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Telugu Professional working proficiency
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Kannada Limited working proficiency
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Bio
Fei Cheng
I was Balaji’s manager while he was working in Spirent automation team from 2014 to 2015. Balaji is a very good engineer and I had a good work experience with him during that period. When he first joined the team, he ramp up things quickly. He has good knowledge on networking and automation, he is able to understand his responsibility and assigned task correctly, and most important, he can take responsibility to work on projects independently. He showed his customer focus when he was working on some projects which has directly interaction with customer. Balaji is also a good team player, he had good collaboration with other team members and willing to help others.
Anish Lal
Balaji reported to me for a period of 1.5 years, He is an excellent team player with a good heart. He ensures that he succeeds along with his team members. He priorotizes the orgnanisational goals and strives to achieve them whole heartedly. he is self driven, with excellent Automation skills. His clarity of communicating the project details with customers is phenominal. He is a great asset to any high performing engineering/sales teams. I would recommend him for any QA or Automation project.
Fei Cheng
I was Balaji’s manager while he was working in Spirent automation team from 2014 to 2015. Balaji is a very good engineer and I had a good work experience with him during that period. When he first joined the team, he ramp up things quickly. He has good knowledge on networking and automation, he is able to understand his responsibility and assigned task correctly, and most important, he can take responsibility to work on projects independently. He showed his customer focus when he was working on some projects which has directly interaction with customer. Balaji is also a good team player, he had good collaboration with other team members and willing to help others.
Anish Lal
Balaji reported to me for a period of 1.5 years, He is an excellent team player with a good heart. He ensures that he succeeds along with his team members. He priorotizes the orgnanisational goals and strives to achieve them whole heartedly. he is self driven, with excellent Automation skills. His clarity of communicating the project details with customers is phenominal. He is a great asset to any high performing engineering/sales teams. I would recommend him for any QA or Automation project.
Fei Cheng
I was Balaji’s manager while he was working in Spirent automation team from 2014 to 2015. Balaji is a very good engineer and I had a good work experience with him during that period. When he first joined the team, he ramp up things quickly. He has good knowledge on networking and automation, he is able to understand his responsibility and assigned task correctly, and most important, he can take responsibility to work on projects independently. He showed his customer focus when he was working on some projects which has directly interaction with customer. Balaji is also a good team player, he had good collaboration with other team members and willing to help others.
Anish Lal
Balaji reported to me for a period of 1.5 years, He is an excellent team player with a good heart. He ensures that he succeeds along with his team members. He priorotizes the orgnanisational goals and strives to achieve them whole heartedly. he is self driven, with excellent Automation skills. His clarity of communicating the project details with customers is phenominal. He is a great asset to any high performing engineering/sales teams. I would recommend him for any QA or Automation project.
Fei Cheng
I was Balaji’s manager while he was working in Spirent automation team from 2014 to 2015. Balaji is a very good engineer and I had a good work experience with him during that period. When he first joined the team, he ramp up things quickly. He has good knowledge on networking and automation, he is able to understand his responsibility and assigned task correctly, and most important, he can take responsibility to work on projects independently. He showed his customer focus when he was working on some projects which has directly interaction with customer. Balaji is also a good team player, he had good collaboration with other team members and willing to help others.
Anish Lal
Balaji reported to me for a period of 1.5 years, He is an excellent team player with a good heart. He ensures that he succeeds along with his team members. He priorotizes the orgnanisational goals and strives to achieve them whole heartedly. he is self driven, with excellent Automation skills. His clarity of communicating the project details with customers is phenominal. He is a great asset to any high performing engineering/sales teams. I would recommend him for any QA or Automation project.
Credentials
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Automation Specialist Level 2
TricentisJul, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
Automation Specialist Level 1
TricentisMar, 2019- Nov, 2024 -
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services (AWS)May, 2021- Nov, 2024
Experience
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NCS Group Australia
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Automation Manager (Quality and Testing)
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Oct 2023 - Present
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Arq Group
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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300 - 400 Employee
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Quality Assurance Engineer
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Jan 2022 - Oct 2023
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Infosys
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Consultant
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Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
• Working as Automation Consultant for Westpac Client. • Involved in API Automation using RestAssured Framework. • Working in an Agile Project and involved in Sprint planning and Scrum meeting • Working as Automation Consultant for Westpac Client. • Involved in API Automation using RestAssured Framework. • Working in an Agile Project and involved in Sprint planning and Scrum meeting
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AccessHQ
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Test Analyst
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May 2019 - Sep 2021
• Working as Product Automation Specialist for RMS (Transport for NSW) Client. • Successfully Automated MyPlates website testing with different scenarios. • Involved in API testing Automation. Hands on Experience in using API tools like Postman. • Involved in Script development and Enhancement for new feature as well as existing feature. • Executing Regression scripts for major releases, reporting defects and tracking the defects till Closure • Involved in debugging the issues and fixing the script issues. • Interact with the Tricentis support team to solve the issues observed related to the TOSCA tool. • Good Knowledge in SQL Queries and Automated SQL DB related Scenarios. Show less
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Westpac
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Australia
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Automation Tester
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Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
• Involved in Infrastructure Compliance Test Automation Project. • Automated Compliance test cases using Chef Inspec Tool as well as Selenium WebDriver • Hands on Experience in DevOps Tools like Bitbucket/Git, Jenkins, Artifactory. • Guiding Offshore team and helping them to resolve their issues observed in Automation. • Involved in Infrastructure Compliance Test Automation Project. • Automated Compliance test cases using Chef Inspec Tool as well as Selenium WebDriver • Hands on Experience in DevOps Tools like Bitbucket/Git, Jenkins, Artifactory. • Guiding Offshore team and helping them to resolve their issues observed in Automation.
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nbn® Australia
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Australia
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Network Test Engineer
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May 2018 - Sep 2018
• Testing different Services like default and priority services for multiple Service Providers. • Involved in Access Seeker Onboarding Testing as well as integration and configuration of network devices • Configured routing protocols in the core network side to take care of end to end testing setup. • Automating Test cases for L2/L3 traffic related scenarios with the help of Spirent TestCenter APIs. • Worked on PowerShell scripting for System related activities. • Testing different Services like default and priority services for multiple Service Providers. • Involved in Access Seeker Onboarding Testing as well as integration and configuration of network devices • Configured routing protocols in the core network side to take care of end to end testing setup. • Automating Test cases for L2/L3 traffic related scenarios with the help of Spirent TestCenter APIs. • Worked on PowerShell scripting for System related activities.
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Spirent Communications
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United States
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Member Of Technical Staff
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Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
• I was leading 4-member Automation team in Customer location which involved in fixing automation issues.• Involved in building Setup and configure different L2/L3 technologies on the routers and switches.• Tested major routing protocols like OSPF, BGP as well as other L2/L3 protocols using L2/L3 traffic generator Spirent TestCenter and troubleshooting the routing issues.• Interacting with customers to understand their requirement and provide automation solution with respect to Spirent TestCenter. Provided REST API solution to customers for Spirent TestCenter Product.• Prepared multiple documents like Application Note for our product. This helped customers to get the overview of ENV setup and basic Automation.• Involved in PowerShell scripting and Shell scripting for window and Linux based Platforms.• Worked on script migration activity from other vendor scripts to Spirent TestCenter Scripts for couple of projects using Python, PowerShell as well as TCL.• Provided product specific training for the new joiners and mentored them to work independently. • Involved in REST API Automation using Postman tool as well as Python Automation language for STC product. Show less
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Senior Software Engineer
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Aug 2014 - Jun 2017
• Developed and Enhanced the High Level Test APIs (HLTAPI) for Spirent TestCenter (L2/L3 traffic generator Tool) product using Python language.• Configured and tested L2/L3 protocols using Spirent TestCenter.• Commit the code in Perforce and maintain the Version. Involved in Code Review in Code Collaborator and trigger the build in Jenkins regression Tool. Worked on CI/CD process.• Involved in Bug fixing and Unit Testing. Released patch build to customer based on the request.
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Wipro
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Technical Lead
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Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
• Involved in manual testing for Cisco’s CAT6K product. Used ATS and PyATS framework for testing and DDTS tool for defect tracking.• Automated multiple scripts in Perl language to do basic Oracle and MySQL database queries.• Worked on Shell as well as Bash scripting languages.
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jul 2010 - May 2014
• Worked in Multiple Testing and Automation Projects with different customers like Cisco, Ericsson and Bell Canada.• Involved in Script Automation for Cisco Media Experience Engine (MXE) product using TCL language. Used Wireshark/Tshark tool for capturing the traffic in this project.• Predominantly worked on testing BGP, OSPF and VoIP protocols like SIP. Involved in troubleshooting the issues while testing.• Involved in different type of testing for multiple Cisco products. Maintained a regressing testing setup lab which includes building setup and scheduled maintenance as well as troubleshooting the setup issues.• Hands on ETL Testing experience for OSS/BSS product called Ericsson Network IQ Statistics (ENIQ).• I was part of Agile team (Team Member). Involved in Daily scrum, Sprint planning, Sprint review and retrospective meetings. Involved in creating user stories and tasks.• Manually Tested Technology Packages for multi-vendor and multi-technology eNodeB and Used MHWeb tool for defect tracking and Jira for Task management.• Prepared Test Plans, Verification Specification documents and Test Script documents. Involved in peer review for these documents as well.• I was leading 3-member Automation team which involved in Automating test cases using Rational Performance Tool for ENIQ Events Application.• Involved in Automation framework development projects using Python, TCL, PowerShell and Bash scripting languages. One of the key scripter in the Automation project.• Involved in Script enhancement and maintenance for 4G SGSN MME, LTE eNodeB streaming, LTE Events Statistics and CFA/HFA features.• Worked in an Automation project for Bell Canada Client using IXIA Test Conductor Tool. Show less
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Software Engineer
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Aug 2008 - Jun 2010
• Involved in Functional as well as Regression testing for Routing, Switching and VoIP Technologies. Enhanced the scripts and automated customer scenarios for better feature coverage.• Worked on Cisco Specific tools like DDTS/CDETS for defect tracking, ATS automation framework, eARMS tool for executing regression scripts.
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CMC LTD
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India
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Contract Assignee
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Mar 2007 - Jul 2008
• Involved Installation & Maintenance of Leased line & DSL line • Cisco Router and Switch configuration. • LAN/VLAN configuration and test the configuration. • Worked as Network Admin and Supported to the customer • Worked on Server Maintenance in Indian Railways. • Worked on Open VMS Operating System • Involved Installation & Maintenance of Leased line & DSL line • Cisco Router and Switch configuration. • LAN/VLAN configuration and test the configuration. • Worked as Network Admin and Supported to the customer • Worked on Server Maintenance in Indian Railways. • Worked on Open VMS Operating System
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Education
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St Peters Engineering College
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), ELECTRONICS AND INSTRUMENTATION ENGINEERING