Dorian Lupu

Head of Testing Automation Coe @Santander UK

Milton Keynes, GB

Executive leadership role with responsibility for enterprise automation, quality strategy, testing platforms, environments and delivery outcomes across multiple technology domains.• Defined and embedded bank-wide automation and quality standards • Owned governance, controls, metrics, reporting for development and production quality, as well as productivity metrics for developers and SDETs• Accountable for Pre-Production environments, data strategy and release readiness• Partnered with Product and Engineering leadership to set delivery priorities, balancing risk, speed and customer impact.• Delegated quality and release ownership to teams, reducing central controls while keeping clear reliability and compliance guardrails.• Partnered with CTO leadership on platform alignment, tooling and strategic investment• Central stakeholder alignment including Finance, Procurement, CIOs, technical teams to introduce a key digital transformation initiative to the current domain model.• Led outcome-based service models including planning, financial ownership and vendor management• Established performance, resilience and accessibility standards within regulatory frameworks• Developed senior leadership capability through coaching, feedback and structured growth paths• Introduced AI-assisted engineering practices to improve productivity and quality consistency• Increased automation coverage by 50% and organisational standardisation to 80%, improving productivity by 60% enabling faster, lower-risk releases across product teams.• Introduced an outcome-driven testing factory model, delivering 40% cost optimisation and 20% quality uplift through targeted quality controls on critical deliveries.