Job Description

Role Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be the part of a start-up team building an innovative platform leveraging data, analytics to drive automated decision-making, smart automation across the full lifecycle of the business. This is a rare opportunity for a self-driven, start-up minded, strong and passionate developer to participate and contribute to a paradigm shift. We want People driven by the mission!

This role is an exciting opportunity for Senior Test Engineer / Automation Engineer with SCB Cognitive Algo Trading (CAT) Platform in Bangalore, India.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Identify the requirements, design, and develop test cases.
• Execute test cycles, defect reporting and defect management
• Experience working with test automation framework using Java programming language
• Experience / understanding of Selenium for GUI automation
• Experience in BDD framework design with tools such as Cucumber
• Design and execute high-quality test cases based on accurate business requirements analysis.
• Maintain a testing structure to facilitate future additions / amendments and ongoing execution.
• Champion and implement testing automation at every opportunity
• Demonstrate effective and accurate test scheduling skills in line with other project deliverables.
• Troubleshoot QA environments, diagnosing and resolving issues prior to formal testing.
• Perform root cause analysis of issues to assist in determining the source of problems.
• Utilize Jira to effectively categories and track issues raised during the testing cycle.
• As necessary, undertake strategic test planning & develop a strategic testing approach for each new service in support of the CAT Platform strategy, where assigned as part of individual test responsibilities.
• Identify and analyze strategic testing opportunities and initiatives.
• Participate in regular project review meetings and report status on testing tasks assigned as part of the daily status report.
• Accept responsibility for testing of tactical and strategic business initiatives for CAT Platform and coordination of the business plans, policies, and processes in support of those initiatives.
• Constantly analyze, enhance and seek to improve testing processes.
• Undertake static data analysis for all system components throughout all stages of test execution.
• Accept responsibility for producing functional and testing requirements for eCommerce systems to serve all parts of FM and the wider SCB group where they wish to utilize FM functionality.

In order to be successful, the candidate will be familiar with FMSD strategy and will work to achieve those business objectives.

• Successfully manage themselves during the project lifecycle.
• Identify and mitigate risks that would impact the overall projects failure and success.
• Effectively engage with multiple stakeholders and vendors on a regular basis.

Mandatory Qualifications & Skills:

• Demonstrable Java & Selenium knowledge
• Be SMEs on the testing and proven experience on large scale FM projects.
• Have experience working within the investment or wholesale banking industries.
• Demonstrate a strong general knowledge of banking business systems and a deep understanding of financial markets flows from front to back office systems.
• Possess an understanding of Fixed Income/Rates/Bonds Pricing and trading.
• Possess excellent communication skills to facilitate accurate and efficient communication across globally distributed development and test teams.
• Possess a proactive 'can do' attitude and demonstrate the ability to work alone or as part of a team.
• Be customer oriented & focused.
• Possess proven UNIX and SQL and No-SQL skills.
• Have demonstrable experience of test automation for system testing, predominately in usage of, but ideally defining and implementing test automation frameworks.

Diversity & Inclusion

• Standard Chartered is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximize their personal potential.

Our Ideal Candidate

Qualifications

• Demonstrable Java and Selenium knowledge.
• Be SMEs on the testing and proven experience on large scale FM projects.
• Have experience working within the investment or wholesale banking industries.
• Demonstrate a strong general knowledge of banking business systems and a deep understanding of financial markets flows from front to back office systems.
• Possess an understanding of Fixed Income / Rates / Bonds Pricing and trading.
• Possess excellent communication skills to facilitate accurate and efficient communication across globally distributed development and test teams.
• Possess a proactive 'can do' attitude and demonstrate the ability to work alone or as part of a team.
• Be customer oriented and focused.
• Possess proven UNIX and SQL and No-SQL skills.
• Have demonstrable experience of test automation for system testing, predominately in usage of, but ideally defining and implementing test automation frameworks.

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 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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