# Balaji B

Balaji B is a remote worker on Himalayas, Quality Assurance Engineer at ThoughtFocus Pvt Ltd, based in India.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@balajib2

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QA Engineer at ThoughtFocus testing YANA’s AI conversations and refining prompts to reduce hallucinations.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | India |
| Authorized to work in | India |
| Salary expectations | 140k+ INR |
| Job categories | Quality Assurance Engineer, Prompt Engineer |
| Skills | Quality Assurance, Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, AI LLM Testing, API Testing, REST APIs, SQL, Data Validation, Integration Testing, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Smoke Testing, Sanity Testing, Prompt Engineering |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/b-balaji-765406210 |

## About

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At ThoughtFocus Pvt Ltd, I support production releases for enterprise applications, designing and executing test cases across functional, regression, integration, and UAT testing. I also validate REST APIs with Postman and manage defects in Jira.

On YANA, I test end-to-end conversational workflows and validate AI responses for correctness, relevance, and business compliance. I refine prompts to reduce hallucinations, and I mentor QA engineers in SQL, API, and AI/LLM testing.
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## Experience

### Quality Assurance Engineer (current)

ThoughtFocus Pvt Ltd. Oct 2021 - Present

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Supported 4 major production releases in the past year, designing and executing 350+ test cases per cycle across functional, regression, smoke, sanity, integration, system, and UAT testing. Validated AI-generated responses from LLM applications, refined prompts to reduce hallucinations, and mentored a team of 6-7 QA engineers.
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Skills: Manual-Testing, API-Testing, SQL, Postman, Jira, Agile, SDLC, STLC, AI-LLM-Testing, Prompt-Engineering, Regression-Testing, UAT, Integration-Testing, System-Testing, Smoke-Testing, Sanity-Testing, Functional-Testing, Defect-Lifecycle-Process, Mentorship

## Education

### Sri Siddhartha Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communication Engineering. Grade: 8.51

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Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering with a GPA of 8.51, completed in October 2021.
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## Tech stack

- Postman
- Tableau
- GitHub
- Jira
- Python
- Apache JMeter
- pytest
- Git
- SQL
- Playwright
- Selenium WebDriver
- Power BI
- REST APIs

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