Balachandra V

About Balachandra V

Agentic AI Platform Architect with 14+ years of experience leading AI strategy and…

Experience

1. Associate Director

   Deloitte

   Apr 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   As an Associate Director in Deloitte’s Quality Engineering practice, I lead AI-driven testing transformation, enterprise automation platform design, and strategic QA advisory across large-scale client programs. I bridge the gap between GenAI innovation and practical QA execution, while actively contributing to presales, eminence, and community leadership. Core Responsibilities:Architected a proprietary WPF-based GenAI STLC Automation Platform using Gemini + Playwright to convert diverse inputs (doc, audio, image, web) into structured test assets (requirements, test cases, scripts, traceability).Built advanced tools like:AI Web Discovery (DOM extraction, page modeling, accessibility snapshot)Test Case Standardizer and Reusable Component IdentifierUser Action Recorder that auto-generates test cases and scripts from real actionsCreated custom workflows for traceability, deduplication, synthetic test data, and script optimization.Delivered AI-driven test solutions for clients like Unilever, Diageo, HDFC, ABInBev, improving velocity, coverage, and risk visibility across UAT, regression, and integration testing. Tosca & Enterprise QA Advisory:Advising multiple Tosca programs to help realize ROI/TCO, define center-of-excellence standards, and optimize infrastructure/project setup.Leading implementation of Tosca Co-Pilot, Test Case Design (TCD) best practices, and custom asset/report generation.Supporting Tosca adoption strategy, platform governance, and knowledge transitions across SAP, Oracle, and custom app landscapes. Strategic Impact:Leading firm-wide framework reuse and automation asset normalization across 500+ QA professionals.Active contributor to sales, presales, and eminence through solution proposals, accelerators, PoCs, and automation strategy workshops.Serving as an AI Mentor, enabling internal capability upliftment across GenAI prompt engineering, LLM-based QA workflows, and testing innovation.

Education

• CMRIT

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

  2009 — 2012

Skills

• Agile Testing
• Test Automation
• Hp Qtp
• Customer Service
• Mysql
• Photoshop
• Java
• Selenium Webdriver
• Testing
• Microsoft Word
• Stlc
• Eggplant
• Selenium
• Manual Testing
• Selenium Testing
• English
• Outlook
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Excel
• Research
• Test Planning
• Windows
• Microsoft Office
• Sql
• Teaching
• Html