Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

The Engineering Excellence & DevOps team sitting in Technology Strategy & Architecture organization are seeking a testing automation engineer with 8 or more years of experience to be an engineering manager, delivering DevOps and Testing Automation related software solutions.

Strategy

• Understand the bank\xe2\x80\x99s DevOps strategy and implementing automation solutions to improve the bank\xe2\x80\x99s software delivery pipeline.

Business

• This role requires broad engagement with application delivery teams across the bank, helping them adopt DevOps pipeline solutions to improve delivery efficiency and maturity.

Processes

• Understand the bank\xe2\x80\x99s software delivery processes and implement solutions in line with the bank\xe2\x80\x99s compliance and security requirement.

People & Talent

• Work collaboratively with a team of diverse engineers in sprint delivery.
• Produce technical documentation and prepare training materials on the solutions being delivered and provide technical support.
• Conduct briefing and/or training sessions to application delivery teams to help them get onboarded and accelerate adoption.

Risk Management

• Understand bank\xe2\x80\x99s risk management framework and embed that into the technology solution being delivered.

Governance

• Understand bank\xe2\x80\x99s software delivery & quality assurance framework and assist in solutioning in respective governance activity.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Head of Solution Delivery
• Technology Assurance Owners
• Delivery leads

Our Ideal Candidate

We expect our team members to be better than the average Developer or Engineer, as our role is to fix what they cannot, to solve the problems they think are impossible, and to guide them through solutions or approaches.

The soft skills we are looking for include:

• Eagerness to learn \xe2\x80\x93 curious, self-learning, then applying
• Problem Solving Skills \xe2\x80\x93 Creativity, resourcefulness, lateral thinking
• Big-Picture Thinking \xe2\x80\x93 maintainability, testability, usability, performance etc.
• Positive Attitude \xe2\x80\x93 passion for the task and achieving a solution
• Communication Skills \xe2\x80\x93 explain, influence, listen, document thinking
• Independence - Ability to work and deliver unsupervised, a self-starter
• Discipline - to chase down solutions to resolution, to deliver quality

The hard:

• 8~10 years of experience working as a software engineer/test automation engineer/tech lead.
• Hands-on experience in Java. Proficient in additional languages such as .NET, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Kotlin is a bonus
• Experience in DevOps with exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible is desirable.
• Experience with Unix and Windows host operating systems, scripting (Bash/Shell or PowerShell) & networking is desirable
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS EC2 as well as container platform such as Docker and Kubernetes is bonus
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, GraphQL using NodeJS
• Experience in ELK stack with data instrumentation & Telemetry
• Knowledge of database systems and design on SQL & Postgre SQL would be added advantage

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Hands-on experience in implementing automated testing solutions with frameworks such as Cucumber, Selenium, Appium.
• Hands-on experience in Java. Proficient in additional languages such as .NET, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Kotlin is a bonus
• Hands-on experience with Test Management tooling such as Azure DevOps Test Plan is highly desirable
• Experience in DevOps with exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible is desirable
• Experience with Unix and Windows host operating systems, scripting (Bash/Shell or PowerShell) & networking is desirable
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS EC2 as well as container platform such as Docker and Kubernetes is bonus

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we\'ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you\'re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can\'t wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you\'ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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