DIPJYOTI METIA

Chapter Lead - Quality Engineering

Melbourne, Australia10+ Years Experience

Executive Summary

Quality Engineering Lead with with 10+ years of progressive leadership in quality engineering, test automation, and cloud-native testing solutions. Proven track record of building high-performing teams, architecting scalable automation frameworks, and driving organizational transformation through shift-left testing practices. Expert in web, mobile, API, and performance testing with deep expertise in service virtualization and emerging Generative AI applications for quality assurance. Driving testing initiatives for core banking platforms that support millions of users, while ensuring sustained automated coverage of critical user journeys.

Core Competencies

Leadership & Strategy

Team Building & Mentoring • Quality Strategy • Shift-Left Testing • Agile/DevOps Transformation • Stakeholder Management • Budget & Resource Planning

Test Automation & Frameworks

Agentic Testing (Browser-Use, braintrust eval, MCP, ADK) • Web Testing (Playwright, Cypress) • Mobile Testing (Appium) • API Testing (REST/gRPC) • Custom Framework Development

Performance & Reliability

Load Testing (K6, Locust, JMeter) • Performance Engineering • Chaos Engineering • SRE Practices • Observability (OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb)

Cloud & DevOps

AWS/GCP • Kubernetes • CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) • Infrastructure as Code • Service Virtualization • Containerization (Docker) • Serverless

Professional Experience

ANZ Banking Group, Melbourne, Australia

Chapter Lead - Quality Engineering

Aug 2022 – Present
  • Led quality engineering for ANZPlus core banking services (Payments, Accounts, Cards, Statements) serving 1M+ active users in cloud-native Golang environment
  • Established enterprise-wide quality principles and fostered a shift-left testing culture across 12 feature teams, resulting in automated test coverage for critical user journeys
  • Architected OpenTelemetry integration into gRPC API testing framework, reducing mean time to resolution
  • Developed intelligent SlackBot notification system with ML-based failure categorization, improving incident response time
  • Migrated service virtualization from JavaScript to TypeScript on CloudRun, simulating Kafka and cloud events for multiple services
  • Developed Golang-based CLI tools to enable dynamic test data generation and streamline microservice integration, significantly decreasing test setup duration

ANZ Banking Group, Melbourne, Australia

Senior Software Engineer in Test

May 2020 – Aug 2022
  • Developed enterprise-grade integration test frameworks in Golang for gRPC and REST services with critical user journey coverage
  • Spearheaded cloud-native testing initiatives leveraging GCP ecosystem (Kubernetes, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, Dataflow)
  • Enhanced E2E performance testing using Locust and K6, identifying 40% performance improvement opportunities
  • Collaborated with SRE teams on monitoring dashboards, alerting systems, and SLI/SLO definition for quality metrics
  • Automated shakeout and regression testing with Slack and GitHub Actions integration, reducing manual effort

SportsBet (BetEasy), Melbourne, Australia

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Apr 2018 – May 2020
  • Designed and implemented mobile automation frameworks using Appium and SeeTest Cloud for iOS/Android applications
  • Built comprehensive API and WebUI automation suites (RestAssured, Puppeteer, Jest, Cypress) supporting 24/7 operations
  • Developed serverless testing infrastructure on AWS (Lambda, CloudFormation, ECR) reducing infrastructure costs
  • Established continuous monitoring using Elasticsearch and Kibana with real-time alerting for production systems
  • Implemented visual regression testing and E2E frameworks with automated S3 reporting and Slack integration

National Australia Bank, Melbourne, Australia

Senior Test Analyst

Oct 2016 – Apr 2018
  • Led testing strategy for migration of 35 legacy applications to Azure cloud platform
  • Developed automation frameworks for Angular applications (Protractor) and banking APIs (Java, RestAssured)
  • Implemented BDD frameworks (Cucumber, Selenium) with Jira and Jenkins integration for continuous testing
  • Automated Salesforce database testing and Node.js-based service stubbing for complex integration scenarios

Infosys Limited, Mysore, India

Test Engineer

Feb 2015 – Oct 2016
  • Developed BDD Cucumber Selenium frameworks for enterprise web application automation
  • Automated SQL database validation using Java JDBC and SAS fraud detection UI testing
  • Conducted comprehensive API testing using SoapUI for financial services applications

Certifications & Continuous Learning

GitHub Certified
GitHub Actions
Google Cloud Professional
Cloud Developer
AWS Certified
Solutions Architect Associate
Microsoft Certified
Azure Fundamentals

Open Source Contributions & Public Speaking

  • HybridTestFramework - End to End testing of Web, API, Cloud, Events and Security (148 GitHub stars)
  • MobileTestFramework - Cross-platform mobile testing solution (72 GitHub stars)
  • PlaywrightTestFramework - Modern web testing framework with AI integration
  • EventShark - A Serverless Kafka Event Publisher Testing Framework
  • Technical Speaker - “Web Engineering using Puppeteer” (Feb 2019), “Protractor with BDD” (Sep 2017)

Education

Master of Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology, India

Bachelor of Engineering

West Bengal University of Technology, India

Research & Publications

  • “A Hybrid SVM-NN Based Multilevel Classifier For Detecting Network Intrusions”

    Published March 2015

  • “An Efficient Hybrid Multilevel Intrusion Detection System in Cloud Environment”

    Published August 2014

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I'm passionate about quality engineering, mentoring teams, and building robust testing frameworks that scale.