DIPJYOTI METIA

Engineering Manager

Melbourne, Australia

10+ Years Experience

Executive Summary

I’m an Engineering Manager at ANZ, leading teams building cloud-native softwares that support digital banking services used by millions of customers. My focus is on evolving these systems improving reliability, observability, and developer experience while introducing LLM-based automation in places where it genuinely adds leverage across the SDLC.. Expert in Distributed Sytems, Cloud Native Architecture, and Microservices with deep expertise in backend development and emerging Generative AI applications Driving engineering initiatives for core banking platforms that support millions of users, while ensuring prduction safety and quality.

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Core Competencies

Technical expertise across the backend engineering spectrum

Leadership & Strategy

Team Building & Mentoring

AI Strategy

Shift-Left Testing

Cloud Native Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Budget & Resource Planning

Architecture

Custom Framework Development (Golang, TypeScript)

Microservices Architecture

Agentic AI (Google ADK, MCP)

Event-Driven Architecture

Gen AI (Braintrust Eval, LLM Validation)

Performance & Reliability

Load Testing (K6, Locust, JMeter, Gatling)

Performance Engineering & Optimization

Chaos Engineering (Litmus, Chaos Mesh)

SRE Practices & SLI/SLO Definition

Observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)

Application Monitoring (Honeycomb, Grafana)

Cloud & DevOps

GCP/AWS/Azure Cloud Platforms

Kubernetes & Serverless Orchestration

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Service Virtualization (WireMock)

Containerization (Docker)

Professional Experience

10+ years driving quality engineering excellence

ANZ Banking Group

Engineering Manager

Aug 2025 – Present

Melbourne, Australia • Leading the Enablement Engineering function for ANZ Digital Channels.

I’m responsible for the engineering platforms and shared tooling that sit underneath banking, lending, and cross-product services, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and developer experience.

Over the last year, I’ve been exploring practical uses of generative AI to reduce friction in engineering workflows things like test case generation, scenario modelling, and natural-language interfaces that help engineers move faster without cutting corners.

I designed and rolled out a custom golang based distributed performance engineering framework integrated with Cloud Run, Spanner Database and OpenTelemetry, giving teams visibility into how systems behave under load, not just whether tests pass or fail.

I also led the development of shared test data and service simulation capabilities, including Golang-based CLI tools and Kafka/event-driven system simulation, which significantly reduced setup time and improved end-to-end coverage.

ANZ Banking Group

Chapter Lead - Engineering

Aug 2022 – Aug 2025

Melbourne, Australia

I led the engineering chapter responsible for quality and testing strategy across core banking domains like payments, accounts, transactions, cards, and statements all built in Golang in a cloud-native environment.

One of my main goals was to shift ownership of quality back to teams, moving away from “testing as a phase” toward testing as part of engineering.

I integrated OpenTelemetry into our gRPC testing frameworks, which gave us much better insight into failures and reduced the time spent guessing where things broke.

I also modernised our service virtualisation capabilities, migrating legacy tooling to TypeScript on Cloud Run and extending it to support Kafka and event-driven workflows.

ANZ Banking Group

Senior Software Engineer

May 2020 – Aug 2022

Melbourne, Australia

I built service virtualisation solutions using serverless architectures to unblock teams and reduce dependency on unstable environments.

I spent a lot of time working with event-driven systems, including Kafka and Apache Beam, and built tooling to test those systems reliably.

Worked on a testing framework to test the eventing architecture using the confluent-kafka-go and google cloud function.

Collaborated with SRE teams on monitoring and SLI/SLO definition, achieving 99.95% service availability

SportsBet (BetEasy)

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Feb 2018 – May 2020

Melbourne, Australia • Mobile automation and AWS serverless testing

Architected mobile test automation framework for iOS and Android using Appium, reducing manual testing by 70%

Implemented AWS serverless testing infrastructure with Lambda and DynamoDB for load testing sports betting platform

Developed BDD framework with Cucumber achieving 85% automated coverage for critical user journeys

Led migration from Protractor to WebDriver for web automation, improving test stability by 45%

National Australia Bank (NAB)

Senior Test Analyst

Sep 2016 – Feb 2018

Melbourne, Australia • Azure cloud migration and test automation

Designed and implemented BDD test automation framework using Cucumber and Java for internet banking platform

Led Azure cloud migration testing for 15+ microservices, ensuring zero-downtime deployment

Established CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins achieving 90% automated regression coverage

Mentored team of 5 junior testers on automation best practices and cloud testing strategies

Infosys Limited

Test Engineer

Jul 2015 – Sep 2016

Bangalore, India • Selenium automation and API testing

Developed Selenium WebDriver automation framework for e-commerce platform with 200+ test cases

Implemented REST API testing framework using RestAssured and TestNG for microservices validation

Executed comprehensive functional, regression, and integration testing for banking applications

Reduced test execution time by 60% through parallel test execution and test optimization strategies

Certifications

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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