Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

• Automation test engineer should have a strong knowledge in Java, Automated testing, Ruby, Gherkin/ Cucumber, Selenium, API testing, Shell scripts , RDBMS and JMeter performance scripting.
• Nice to have Spring boot, Perfecto RESTFUL, RDBMS, API, Cloud.
• Advocate delivery excellence, minimising delivery risk.
• Agile development of banking services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in agile development.
• Conduct continuous development and/or integration & testing.

We are seeking talented and motivated individuals for the role of Agile Test Engineer.

• Successful candidates will be experienced programmers who can develop user stories, develop test cases, break down, design, and develop solutions in an environment with constant collaborative discussions. They will be matured individuals who are comfortable working in an agile environment with critical peer reviews of design and code.
• They must be able to offer constructive critical reviews of other\xe2\x80\x99s designs and code.
• They must be able to collaboratively work with product owners to develop use stories and test cases.
• They will be able to research, trial, and recommend new technologies of interest to the group.
• They will have experience with taking code through testing, deployment, and production and will not have merely handed off code to QA and Production Support.

Strategy

• There is a digital revolution happening that is changing the future of banking - increasingly, Banking is Technology.
• Financial Services firms are becoming ever more defined by their technology and ability to use it to deliver outstanding customer experiences.
• Standard Chartered Information Technology & Operations (ITO) is looking for individuals interested in using innovative new products and modern technologies to deliver world class digital experiences for our clients and customers.
• The Retail, Private Banking and Wealth Management ITO is accelerating transformation of agile banking services with DevOps and Agile practices, with an aim towards efficiency, automation, and improved transparency Delivery Sprint Teams will be at the core of delivering this agenda.
• Delivery Sprint Teams will build and integrate components of the DevOps pipeline to deliver new banking capabilities, as well as refactoring of existing applications.
• Sprint teams will all be experienced programmers, operations people and product owners who can develop and drive their capability development end-to-end. Breadth across both programming and system operations is required of all candidates and depth must be demonstrated in their specialization; this is a cross-functional team with cross over between development and operations with business.

People and Talent

• 7 plus years of software testing which includes manual, automated and performance testing
• Prior experience working in an agile environment, continuous integration & testing.
• Strong knowledge in Cucumber, Ruby and any software test automation tools.
• Experience in delivering software in a regulated environment, ideally financial services based to high quality.
• Strong knowledge of risk and regulatory delivery.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and critical thinking.
• Strong communication and written skills, ability to communicate your ideas with others.
• Be flexible with changing priorities and multi-tasking.
• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant.

Regulatory and 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.
• Lead the [country / business unit / function/ team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Our Ideal Candidate

Role Specific Competencies

• Requirements Analysis
• Performance Measurement and Tuning
• System Testing
• System Testing Tools
• Testing
• Application Testing
• Understanding Customer Needs

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.

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