BIJU JANARDHANAN
A hands-on Change agent with a strong left shift mentality for First Time Quality. Continuous Improvement, Product and Release Engineering. Implemented sophisticated automation frameworks across domains. As a Leader managed global teams. Being an Ideator nurtured creative and Design thinking cultures.
WORK EXPERIENCE
SoLo Funds
QA Lead, Vancouver, BC [Mar 2021 ~ till date
Contributions
- Built End-to-End automation frameworks across Web, Mobile, API and Analytics.
- Test 3rd party services and products for KYC, Credit and Fraud detection.
- Help CustomerService, BackEnd, FrontEnd and Data Engineering teams.
- Setup automation for SoLo mobile apps - android, iOS and web.
- Product, Release management and Signoffs.
- Initiatives in Growth, suggest features/fixes/designs and metrics.
- Debug and resolve UAT/Prod issues by analysis of DataDog logs, Synapse, Plaid services.
- Ideate Product features and suggest UX improvements for ease of use. PayPal
Software Engineer MTS3, Vancouver, BC [ Nov 2019 - Feb 2021] Contributions
- Hyperwallet UI, API, GraphQL and Performance automation.
- Implement Payout invocations and deploy locally in Payara server, Percona and Hazelcast
- Amazon payments implementation and integration testing and monitoring.
- Global MassPay automation of Hyperwallet payouts gateways with FXCurrencyCalculator.
- KyaaS - HyperWallet-PayPal integration of KYC, Tax - W8 Ben/W9 Compliance.
- Setup and automation of AML - Anti Money Laundering vendors.
- Accounts and Programs - Escheatment, wallet, quickPayouts, Gateways. Initiatives:
- Demoing and onboarding Clients HyperWallet features.
- Support Payouts platforms for Gig economy/onDemand Companies.
- Automate BackOffice for new Programs, invoicing across Global banks and Financial institutions.
Noodle.ai
Director Software Engineering, Bangalore [ Nov 2018 - Nov 2019 ] Contributions
- Established QE(Quality Engg) devised API, UI and Performance frameworks.
- Automated ~95% of reducing manual efforts, adapted across 8 AI apps.
- Delivery of 5 Enterprise AI Apps automation in less than 6 months. Eg: Enterprise AI for Predictive Analytics, Fleet Health Intelligence, Energy efficiency to reduce CO2 & waste.
- Initiatives in Master Data Quality and Management.
- Synk run on libraries used.
- DAST and Security testing using BurpSuite & Nessus Scan.
- Owner of BEAST Platform automation and Release Management.
- Mentored teams on automation tools and stacks for speed and accuracy.
- IoT Edge integration for EAIP - Enterprise AI Platform with DataIQ - Ingestion Quality.
- Devised TiP Sanity - Testing in Production practice enforcing across projects.
** Recognised as “Moved the Needle@Noodle”
BlippAR
Staff Software Engineer, Bangalore [ Mar 2016 - Sep 2018 ] Contributions
- Wore many hats developing ideas to prototypes to solutions using AR and CV.
- Developed frameworks for AR, VisualSearch(Computer Vision), API Gateway serving image/audio/video/3D Assets.
- NLP Word Cloud, Barcode and OCR features automation.
- Testing and automation of Stripe payments integration.
- Release/ProdSupport Engineering, kickstarter of Amigo sessions.
- Blippar SDK License monitoring - Trial License requests, extension and conversions.
- Automation of Halos/FaceProfile/FacialRecognition, KnowledgeGraph UI
- Blippar SDK automation on android and ios, using OpenCV for Barcode, WordCloud and 3D/FBX assets.
** Part of a 10X team, pitching and delivering to Fortune 100 clients. Dreamworks Animation
R&D Engineer, Bangalore [ Jan 2015 - Mar 2016 ]
Contributions
- Automation of PAM(Production Asset Management) Cloud services and features.
- AppDynamics monitoring PAM services. Supporting Studio pipelines of Prod/Staging.
- Performance Testing using JMeter for PAM critical services.
- Animation assets/data flows observability using ELK - ElasticSearch, AMQ services.
- Support different teams including Artists and monitoring RenderFarm pipelines.
- Dreamworks + Nike = Nova - GURU portal, REST APIs automation
** Credits for the movie in “KFP3 - KungFu Panda3” Microsoft
SDET 2, Hyderabad [ Jan 2014 – Dec 2014 ]
Contributions
Microsoft Licensing automation on Azure. Delivery of impactful critical projects 1. SLK(Secure License Keys) HBI(High Business Impact) project with Benchmarking of OEMs distribution of 10,20...80Millions, 6Billions keys. 2. MSKeys Retails distribution portal on Azure, Automated ~90% tests. 3. POEDS - Proof Of Eligibility Distribution System. Azure based Key generation, distribution
& activations.
4. Global5 Threshold - Windows10 Azure based Environment setup with SAP integration. 5. BizTalk Owner managing vendors and deployment schedules. Oracle
Senior Member of Technical Staff, Bangalore [ Dec 2010 – Dec 2013 ] Contributions
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure automation.
SaaS, PaaS and IaaS infrastructure spinoffs using tasctl and admin features.
- Beehive Collaboration and Communication suite automation of UDS, BhMail, BCentral, AdminCtl CLI, etc.,
- Beehive WebRTC Conferencing, BCentral - Cross browser Testing.
- Performance Testing of Beehive Server.
- Java Releases testing and certification Testing(till Java7) across OS’es.
- DogFood, catFood Environments setup for Server Tech teams. Thomson Reuters
QA Analyst, Bangalore [ May 2009 - Nov 2010 ]
Contributions
- Automation mid-tier SOAP & JAL(Java Access Layer) WebServices including R&D Search Algorithms with comparison TestReports of Google and Baidu Search Engines.
- Integration testing with Novus systems.
- Delivered 11 services across 3 projects, used by ~20+ Applications across ThomsonReuters. Revenues >$4Billion. WesLaw, WestLaw Next being few.
- Implemented HeartBeat monitoring of critical services like Load, Index and Search. General Motors
ECS(Electrical Controls Software) Engineer, Bangalore [ Oct 2006 - Apr 2009 ] Contributions
- Aspen Application Suite, auto-code as per GM C standards. PowerTrain Controls Tools.
- Developed Model generation with code of MatLab, simuLink integrations in ASPEN. ACHIEVEMENTS
Always set great Cultures, helping everyone, working in an open communication model.
Pitching and Demoing to Clients, ideating solutions thru prototypes/Proof of Concepts.
Designed and implemented Frontend, middleware, data ingestion pipeline automation.
Performed performance, scalability & security testing of complex distributed systems; including tuning, capacity planning, monitoring and benchmarking of APIs and critical backend services.
Setup CI/CD pipelines and deployments in fast paced Agile environments.
Built teams from scratch including hiring, training and mentoring.
Delivered across domains of different Desktop, API(SOAP, REST, GraphQL), web, mobile and hybrid apps.
Authored best-quality assurance practices, reviews for Releases with unit testing and integration testing.
Worked on multiple Cloud services AWS, Azure, HP Helion, Rackspace, Oracle Cloud and OpenShift.
Submitted an App innovation, got recommendation for Patent filing. TECH STACK and INTERESTS
cypress, java, python, javascript, testNG, junit,jest, puppeteer, playwright, robotframework, appium, testCafe, RestAssured, protractor, cucumber, Behave, pyTest, tesseract, openCV, OPC-UA, AMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka
GraphQL, SQL Server, MySQL, postgres, Timescale, mongodb, presto, Oracle APEX jmeter, locust, perfmon, loadrunner/performance center, metricbeat, filebeat, trepn snapdragon profiler, instruments, Charles proxy
Docker, Airflow, grafana, graphite
AWS, Azure, HP Helio, OpenShift, Oracle Cloud, Rackspace S3. Areas of Interest/Side Projects: NLP - Spacy, OpenCalais, Search, AR, CV, AI, IoT,Deep RL Algorithms. No code, open source tech stacks.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering, Shimoga 2005.
Diploma in Computer Science from Bapuji Polytechnic, Davangere 2001 Vancouver, BC 604-***-**** *********@*****.*** https://linkedin.com/in/bijupj111