Alper Mermer
Quality Engineering Group Lead at Lloyds Banking Group
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlper Mermer is a seasoned quality engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling QA practices for enterprise and high-availability systems across banking, telecoms, and cloud services. Currently leading Quality Engineering for enterprise applications at Lloyds Banking Group, he combines hands-on test automation and CI/CD implementation with strategic quality programmes that span functional, security, and performance testing. He has a track record of growing teams and capabilities—most notably building a distributed QA function from 2 to 12 engineers—and of owning product lifecycles including an AI-based customer journey analysis tool. Comfortable working across languages and tooling (JS, Python, Ruby, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), he translates technical insights into measurable quality metrics and observable systems. Known for embedding continuous delivery and trunk-based practices into organisations, he also brings commercial and vendor-facing experience from director-level and consultancy roles. Based in Manchester with a Computer Engineering degree from Hacettepe University, he blends pragmatic engineering with people-first leadership to drive lasting quality outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Hacettepe University
English, Turkish
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Github Skills (14)
behavior-driven-development7
cucumber6
html6
docker6
google-chrome6
capybara6
loops6
database6
agile6
bdd5
acceptance-testing5
markdown5
golang4
test-automation3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
testhive/Cucumber-Capybara-Template
Sep 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 5 years 3 months
testhive/zap-security
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
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