Sachin Mylavarapu

Executive Scope Strategic Leadership And Transformation Quality Architecture And Engineering Modern Estate Legacy Modernization Core TA Oracle Apps CI/CD & Delivery Enablement Hybrid Landscape Capability Building And People Leadership Synthetic Test Data Engineering Reliability, Resilience And Chaos Engineering Business Impact

Asset Servicing - Transfer Agency

Led Quality Engineering strategy and execution for an enterprise-scale Transfer Agency portfolio comprising 8 product groups, spanning modern cloud-native platforms and a mission-critical legacy Oracle Apps ecosystem. Accountable for test strategy, automation architecture, delivery assurance, reliability, and capability building across multiple squads supporting critical financial operations.

• Defined and executed a business-unit-wide Quality Engineering transformation, embedding Automation-First, Shift-Left, and Test Pyramid principles within a DevSecOps delivery model.
• Owned the end-to-end quality strategy for the Core TA platform, governing testing across 4 interdependent squads that form the backbone of Transfer Agency operations.
• Partnered with Engineering, Product, and Platform leadership on quality risk management, release strategy, and operational resilience.
• Established a sustainable, portfolio-wide Quality Engineering operating model that bridged modern cloud-native systems and legacy enterprise platforms.
• Architected and designed enterprise-grade, reusable test frameworks for applications built on Java, React, and Kafka-based event-driven microservices.
• Standardized common automation components and libraries adopted across multiple product groups, improving consistency, reducing duplication, and accelerating delivery.
• Designed validation approaches for asynchronous, distributed Kafka workflows, enhancing defect detection, observability, and reliability in complex event-driven systems.
• Led quality modernization for a legacy, desktop-based Oracle Applications ecosystem, a core system underpinning Transfer Agency operations.
• Designed and implemented a structured UFT automation framework, replacing ad-hoc, manual-heavy testing with scalable, repeatable regression suites.
• Harmonized testing practices across the 4 Core TA squads, bringing consistency to a previously fragmented quality landscape while minimizing delivery risk.
• Designed CI/CD-aligned test automation pipelines covering both modern cloud-native systems and legacy Oracle/UFT-based platforms.
• Defined clear quality gates across build, integration, regression, and production readiness, enabling faster and safer releases.
• Delivered multiple high-impact Proof of Concepts that secured leadership buy-in and funding for scaled automation adoption.
• Mentored and coached 15 quality engineers across multiple squads, elevating capabilities in modern SDET practices, API testing, Kafka validation, and CI/CD.
• Reconstituted the team to ensure alignment with the Quality Engineering transformation agenda, strengthening capability in modern SDET practices while maintaining continuity of delivery.
• Built a culture of engineering rigor, automation mindset, and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
• Provided ongoing technical leadership, career mentoring, and day-to-day guidance to distributed quality teams embedded within product squads.
• Led the design of a Synthetic Test Data Engineering solution, defining complex domain data requirements and building scalable generation frameworks.
• Improved test stability, repeatability, and environment reliability by reducing dependency on inconsistent legacy datasets across both modern and Oracle-based systems.
• Contributed to the Recovery and Resiliency strategy for the TA platform, integrating reliability testing into the QA lifecycle.
• Applied Chaos Engineering using Chaos Mesh to validate fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and recovery behavior in production-like environments.
• Enabled safer, faster releases for mission-critical Transfer Agency platforms handling high-value financial transactions.
• Reduced manual testing dependency across modern and legacy systems through scalable automation.
• Improved production reliability and incident resilience via structured reliability and chaos testing.
• Institutionalized a modern, sustainable Quality Engineering model spanning both cloud-native and legacy enterprise ecosystems.

• Delivered 100% E2E automation, CDC, and chaos tests; centralised repository cut regression time by 75%.
• Partnered with DevOps to harden CI/CD for fast, stable releases; improved reliability of CTI services.

• Built ephemeral test environments on AKS and automated lifecycle via Azure DevOps, lowering setup time by 60% and cloud costs by 35%.
• Achieved full automation for Kafka-based apps; accelerated integration with service virtualization by 50%.

• Architected robust UI/API test automation frameworks, improving test coverage to more than 90%.
• Led and mentored a six-member team, successfully automating a complex AI-based cash auditing system, enhancing system stability by 40%.
• Developed and implemented QA, Test Automation, and DevOps strategy, reducing testing cycles by 50%.
• Built a full-featured CI/CD pipeline, streamlining deployments and reducing release times.
• Conducted periodic QA and test automation workshops, upskilling 6 associate engineers and improving overall team proficiency.
• Evangelized agile best practices across teams, embedding a quality-first mindset and accelerating project delivery.

• Led a three-member team to design and execute an integrated test strategy, manage quality assurance (QA) processes, and uphold testing best practices. Delivered a major Q4 release on an accelerated timeframe; successfully launched the HR product with zero P1 issues identified.

• Led performance testing for critical back-end infrastructure, identifying and resolving bottlenecks that improved system efficiency.
• Secured leadership buy-in for a new testing strategy, successfully implementing it over 5 months, enhancing overall test coverage.
• Architected UI/API automation frameworks from the ground up, reducing manual testing efforts by 60%.
• Established agile and scrum teams, improving collaboration and accelerating testing cycles.
• Mentored and upskilled team members, closing knowledge gaps and boosting team productivity.

• Architected UI/API test automation frameworks and developed a comprehensive QA and test automation strategy, increasing test coverage.
• Reinforced agile best practices, clarified team roles, and conducted training workshops, reducing skill gaps and enhancing team productivity.

• Architected UI, API, and Mobile test automation frameworks, enhancing automation efficiency across multiple implementations.
• Mentored and coached 8 engineers (6 junior, 2 mid-level), successfully upskilling them to deliver automation within the sprint.
• Conducted periodic test automation workshops and trained cross-geo teams, improving automation proficiency and collaboration.
• Achieved 65% in-sprint test automation, accelerating feedback cycles and improving software quality.
• Automated 45% of the regression pack across multiple applications, significantly reducing manual testing efforts.
• Influenced the scrum team to embed test automation within sprints, increasing development efficiency and release velocity.
• Established coding standards in collaboration with lead engineers, ensuring best practices in test automation.
• Evangelized agile best practices, fostering a culture of continuous improvement in testing and development processes.

• Clients Serviced: Finastra, UnderwriteMe, EBA
• Developed a conceptual test automation model, successfully socializing it among project sponsors, delivery heads, and business leaders.
• Achieved 100% regression test automation for Phase 1, significantly reducing manual testing efforts.
• Designed and implemented an end-to-end hybrid UI and API test framework, fully integrated within a CI pipeline.
• Led a team of 2 onsite engineers, mentoring and driving best practices in test automation.
• Streamlined the Agile delivery model, embedding test automation within sprints and improving release efficiency.
• Enhanced requirement gathering processes, improving clarity and reducing delivery bottlenecks.
• Evangelized test automation within the delivery framework, aligning cross-functional teams toward common goals.

• Clients Serviced: HSBC PLC
• Architected and developed a BDD data-driven page object model framework for UI and API automation, enhancing test efficiency.
• Designed a SpringBoot/Hibernate-based database validation testing framework, ensuring high data quality and integrity.
• Mentored and coached 5 manual testers, transitioning them into automation roles and improving overall team capability.
• Automated 60% of all regression tests, significantly reducing manual effort and freeing testers to focus on new features.
• Reduced UI end-to-end regression execution time from 4 weeks to just 2 days, accelerating the release cycle.
• Implemented API health checks, achieving validation within 1 hour for faster issue detection.Optimized the overall regression cycle from 6 weeks to 1 week, improving software delivery timelines.
• Contributed to DevOps innovation and CI orchestration, streamlining integration and deployment processes.
• Achieved zero P1 and P2 production incidents post-rollout, demonstrating enhanced software quality and stability.

• Clients Serviced: Mastercard, YNAP, Kuoni Group, Thomas Cook
• Architected and augmented BDD-based UI automation framework using Cucumber-JVM, streamlining test execution.
• Built API automation framework from scratch using RestAssured/Java, achieving 100% automation of all API tests.
• Led a team of 3-6 engineers in automation efforts, increasing overall team efficiency and capability.
• Automated 80% of regression tests, significantly reducing manual effort and improving testing accuracy.
• Optimized API regression suite execution, reducing runtime to 45 minutes for 1500+ test scenarios.
• Reduced regression testing cycle from 3 days per person to 6 hours, accelerating release timelines.
• Developed a foundation for UI automation for POS applications, enabling further automation scalability.
• Performed API testing using SoapUI and implemented a POM framework for regression automation with WebDriver Java, Cucumber-JVM.
• Developed mobile automation for iOS and Android apps using Appium.
• Underwent Professional Scrum Master Training, enhancing agile project management skills.
• Authored key system-level test documents, including the System Level Test Plan and Exit Report.
• Reviewed and conducted system integration and system-level testing, ensuring product quality.
• Successfully reduced the number of P1 and P2 issues, enhancing system stability and reliability.