Megha Mohan

Work History

Macquarie

Gurugram

07.2023 - Current

Heading the testing function of 'Testing Center of Excellence - FMG-Macquarie' - my key responsibility is to build a resilient and sustainable Testing Operating Model ensuring a constant talent pool of rich functional and automation testers with the right ratio of permanent and Contractual roles with Production Stability and cost effectiveness being the core value.
Lay down test strategy, test plan across the testing function with innovative approach . Standardizing test processes, testing tools and best practices across different projects.
Enhancing Automation Footprint. Consolidation of automation framework across E2E projects. Delivered more than 70% of test execution efficiency.
Experience in hiring quality individuals, building and up-scaling right team for growth of the bank. Bringing a culture where testers are not for just 'Manual Testing'.
Defining Metrics and dashboards to measure overall Production Stability (Production incidents Trend, Incident due to change, Change Failure Rate, mean time to recovery etc)
Empowering the teams with right coaching, tooling and support, reward and recognition.

Natwest Group

Gurugram

04.2019 - 06.2023

Directing and leading eFI QA Team while making informed decisions with calculative risks to deliver best of quality product for end users impacting more than 100 micro services. Driving pro active communications, embedding quality mindset, reporting, understanding the needs and collaborating with Global stakeholders (US, UK, India, Singapore).
Key accountable person for generating test strategy across projects. Defining RAID and RACI models primarily for critical regulatory Front to Back deliveries (MIFID-2 and Brexit) with a responsibility as a Quality Engineer to protect bank's reputation and losses.
Generate automation blueprint to define and balance fair accountability of test automation within product developer and testers. Involving integration tests, open source tools like selenium, BDD/Cucumber/Fitnesse frameworks and RPA(Robotic Process Automation) for End to End automation.
This role requires balancing stakeholder needs and high priority demands while being collaborative and inclusive with multiple job groups Traders, Developers, Project Manager, Support, Business Analyst.
Implementing visual Mindmaps for all test scenarios leading to 68% reduction in production defect leakage and transparency of release risk to business stakeholders.

Natwest Group

Gurugram

04.2016 - 03.2019

Developing Progressive/Shift Left automation culture and BDD in electronic trading creating a single QA and Dev team mind-set.
Complete understanding of Electronic Trading -Front Office Fixed Income (Pricing, Dealer to Client, Dealer to Dealer, ECN Connectivity, Front office systems, Automated Trading, Bookings).
Ownership of entire STLC (Requirement Understanding, creation of RTMs, Test Estimations, Test planning, Risk Handling, Test Execution, End to End management and delivery of projects).
Expertise in dashboards for Automation Progress, Overall E-Trading Health Checkup, HEAT MAPS and driving implementation of Quality Gates.
Monitoring and publishing RCA, RTM and Prod Incident Mapping.

Natwest Group

Gurugram

10.2009 - 03.2016

Automation Developer via Quality Test Professional (QTP) for Compass (Program Trading Application), Step Change (Low Latency Trading App), Portico (Client Connectivity) applications. Regression tests were covered during automation cycle.
Analysis of Fix Messages for multiple exchanges and end to end DMA/DSA flows.
Performing exchange certifications and upgrades.
Domain understanding of Cash Equities - Fidessa/FAST, Algorithmic Trading Engine, Program Trading Application.

Lnt Infotech

Mumbai

07.2007 - 09.2009

Building hybrid automation frameworks in QTP.
Defect management and analysis coordinating with global teams.
Generating Automation Dashboards, Prod Incident Tracking, and Post Release Analysis.