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.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you\'ve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.