MEGHANA VARADARAJ
Auckland,New Zealand
Summary
- QA Lead with 15 years’ experience delivering complex digital solutions across banking, insurance, and regulated environments within Agile delivery teams.
- Proven leader of end-to-end quality delivery, defining test strategy, managing multi-phase testing, and driving quality outcomes across multiple release cycles.
- Strong hands-on expertise in UI and API automation, designing scalable frameworks integrated with CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient, reliable releases.
- Broad business perspective, with experience as a Digital Product Owner and Business Analyst, enabling strong stakeholder alignment and business-focused delivery.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Quality Analyst (Contract)
IAG
10.2021 - Current
- Delivered end-to-end QA for ClaimCenter, building scalable UI and API automation frameworks (Selenium, Cucumber, Java, Rest Assured, Ruby, ReadyAPI).
- Defined and enforced automation best practices, coding standards, and process improvements across teams.
- Mentored QA team members, driving adoption of automation frameworks and internal capability uplift.
- Executed regression suites, validated data integrity (SQL), and provided actionable insights to stakeholders for risk mitigation.
Digital Product Owner
BNZ
04.2021 - 10.2021
- Owned product vision, roadmap, and backlog for a governance, risk, and compliance platform, aligning delivery to strategic business and regulatory outcomes.
- Partnered with stakeholders, SMEs, and vendors to translate complex risk and compliance needs into clear, delivery-ready requirements.
- Led solution design and complex integration initiatives, driving cross-functional alignment and informed decision-making.
- Worked closely with engineering leadership to monitor delivery progress, uplift team capability, and ensure outcomes aligned with product objectives.
Senior Automation Tester
BNZ
09.2020 - 04.2021
- Established and evolved UI automation capability using Cypress, improving test coverage and release confidence within a regulated delivery environment.
- Defined testing standards, metrics, and methodologies, aligning quality outcomes with business and delivery objectives.
- Drove continuous improvement through defect analysis and triage, partnering with developers and product stakeholders to address root causes and reduce rework.
- Contributed to team capability uplift, supporting hiring and mentoring of senior automation testers.
Test Analyst III
IAG
04.2018 - 09.2020
- Designed and implemented scalable UI and API automation frameworks (Selenium, Cucumber, Java, REST Assured), significantly reducing manual testing effort and improving regression efficiency.
- Established automation standards and tooling strategy, promoting best practices and ensuring consistency and scalability across teams.
- Built internal automation capability, mentoring QA team members and driving adoption of frameworks and quality engineering practices.
- Provided quality insights across the delivery lifecycle, including defect analysis, data validation, and execution reporting to support informed release decisions.
Senior QA Engineer - Automation
Debitsuccess
11.2017 - 03.2018
- Strengthened API and performance testing capability, developing automated web service tests (Postman) and performance testing (JMeter) to improve system reliability and scalability.
- Enabled team-wide automation adoption, training and supporting QA engineers to effectively maintain and extend automation assets.
- Partnered with developers and Product Owners to assess risk, prioritise defects, and drive quality outcomes across the delivery lifecycle.
- Promoted quality culture and capability growth, leading QA guild sessions and contributing to recruitment of high-quality QA talent.
Business Analyst
Datacom
03.2017 - 11.2017
- Designed and developed solutions with technology teams, aligning with evolving client needs.
- Analyzed and documented business processes to support strategic goals and operational changes.
- Captured requirements through stakeholder interviews, workshops, and backlog prioritization.
- Authored user stories with clear acceptance criteria to guide development and QA.
Test Analyst
Datacom
06.2016 - 07.2017
- Ensured software quality through manual and automated testing, driving timely defect resolution.
- Developed and maintained automated test frameworks (Selenium, Cucumber, Java) to boost efficiency.
- Executed test strategies, performance scripts, and debugging to optimize system reliability.
- Reported insights and testing impact to stakeholders, demonstrating value across platforms.
Senior Software Engineer - Test Automation
ArisGlobal
11.2010 - 09.2015
- Developed and maintained automated test scripts (Sahi, Selenium, Watij, AutoIt, Java) to improve efficiency.
- Evaluated tools and processes, recommending automation strategies aligned with organizational goals.
- Led test automation workshops and supported team growth through hiring and mentoring.
- Tracked defects and ensured quality across multiple clinical and trial management platforms.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science and Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University
India07.2010
Skills
- Selenium WebDriver
- Cypress
- TestCafe
- Ruby on Rails
- Java
- JavaScript
- Groovy Script
- Cucumber
- SpecFlow
- Spring Boot
- REST Assured
- Postman
- ReadyAPI
- SoapUI
- JMeter
- Sahi
- Watij
- Maven
- JUnit
- TestNG
- Zephyr
- QTest
- JIRA
- Bitbucket
- Github
- IntelliJ
- Miro
- SQL Server Management Studio
- PgAdmin
- MongoDB
- Azure Data Studio
- Oracle Database
- MySQL
- BrowserStack
- Jenkins
- Bamboo
- Splunk
- AWS CloudWatch
Timeline
Senior Quality Analyst (Contract)
IAG
10.2021 - Current
Digital Product Owner
BNZ
04.2021 - 10.2021
Senior Automation Tester
BNZ
09.2020 - 04.2021
Test Analyst III
IAG
04.2018 - 09.2020
Senior QA Engineer - Automation
Debitsuccess
11.2017 - 03.2018
Business Analyst
Datacom
03.2017 - 11.2017
Test Analyst
Datacom
06.2016 - 07.2017
Senior Software Engineer - Test Automation
ArisGlobal
11.2010 - 09.2015
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Science and Engineering
Visvesvaraya Technological University