Narayanan Palani
Engineering Specialist at Confidential
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNarayanan Palani is an engineering specialist and platform leader based in London with over a decade of experience driving quality, automation and platform transformation across major UK banks and financial services. He blends hands-on SDeT expertise with executive influence—leading large chapters, guilds and cross-functional teams to adopt CI/CD, shift-left testing, AI-enabled test reporting and vendor-driven cost avoidance. Known for turning low-automation environments into highly automated, TMMi Level 5–aligned organizations, he has delivered measurable gains such as an 80% reduction in test management time through ReportPortalIO and introduced accessibility, security and performance tooling at scale. His background spans trading systems, banking platforms and mobile app releases, with deep practical skills in Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO, React/Next.js and Appium frameworks. Narayanan pairs technical rigor with business acumen—earned through executive education at Harvard, Wharton and Cambridge—and a track record of influencing CTOs and senior directors to de-risk critical deliveries. An engaging leader who still codes and authors internal open-source frameworks, he’s as comfortable running a guild meetup as designing reusable test libraries.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Specialization Certificate Fintech: Foundations & Applications of Financial Technology, Specialization Certificate Fintech: Foundations & Applications of Financial Technology at Wharton OnlineBITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceCertificate of Specialisation Leadership and Management, Certificate of Specialisation Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School OnlineCertificate Leading Digital Transformation, Certificate Leading Digital Transformation at Indian Institute of Management AhmedabadCertificate Advanced Sustainability, Certificate Advanced Sustainability at University of Exeter Business SchoolCertificate Sustainability Essentials for Business, Certificate Sustainability Essentials for Business at University of CambridgeBachelor of Science Information Systems and Management , Bachelor of Science Information Systems and Management at The New College, ChennaiExecutive MBA MANAGEMENT, Executive MBA MANAGEMENT at K J Somaiya Institute of Management
English, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam
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Github Skills (47)
selenium-webdriver10
selenium-grid10
test-automation-framework10
cucumber-js10
selenium10
cypress-cucumber-preprocessor10
testing10
wait10
testing-library10
automation-testing10
selenium-java10
google-play10
automation-framework10
test-automation10
angular-testing-library9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
narayananpalani/testautomation
Sep 2015 - Mar 2021
:white_check_mark: Test Automation Repository contains Selenium Webdriver Frameworks using Java,DotNet,Ruby-Developed to help readers of 'Software Automation Testing Secrets Revealed' [Part1 and Part2]; Part1: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=AK44DwAAQBAJ Part2: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Narayanan_Palani_Selenium_Webdriver?id=MSphDQAAQBAJ
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
automation-testingtest-automation-frameworkselenium-gridwhitemark
narayananpalani/cypress-test-techniques
Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
Cypress Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)-based Gherkin scripts and the Cypress Cucumber preprocessor, which can improve test scenario coverage.
Contributions:1 release, 47 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 3 months
cucumbercucumber-jstest-automationgherkincypress
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