Chalid Mekran
Head Of Test Engineering at Bank CIC |Switzerland|
Basel Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolChalid Mekran is Head of Test Engineering based in the Basel area with nine years of experience building enterprise-scale quality functions in complex, regulated environments. He designs quality operating models that align test governance, automation, CI/CD and cross-team ways of working so organisations can accelerate delivery without sacrificing control or auditability. Comfortable at the intersection of delivery, risk and compliance, he focuses on maturing quality beyond execution—leading transformations, platform modernisations, and compliance-driven change. His background ranges from hands-on test automation and IT support to stream leadership at Bank CIC and defence-sector automation engagements, giving him practical appreciation for both tooling and people change. Unusually for a test leader, he also identifies as a “self-driving car engineer” on GitHub, hinting at an appetite for autonomy systems and complex automation challenges. He brings a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to embedding quality as a leadership concern rather than a downstream activity.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Retail Management, Associate’s Degree Retail Management at ROC NijmegenBusiness Course, Business Course at Ohio UniversityBachelor’s Degree Social Work, Bachelor’s Degree Social Work at HAN University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (6)
electrical-engineering4
fmi3
system-integration3
self-driving-car2
machine-learning2
deep-learning2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tochalid/CarND-LaneLines-P1
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 24 pushes in 1 day
findinglane-findingself-drivinglanedriving
teamomnibot/CarND-Capstone
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Udacity Nanodegree, Term3 Project 3: System Integration - Self-driving Car Engineer
Contributions:3 PRs, 25 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
udacity-nanodegreenanodegreeself-driving-car-engineerfmiudacity
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