Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

• Spl'st, QA & Testing: To have Testing knowledge (Manual & Automation) and Strong understanding of how Mobile and chat messaging apps works.

• The candidate will be working along with Delivery Lead to support the squads deliverable and will liaise with the product owner for any specific modules assigned directly for delivery. To be part of the Agile ceremonies along with other squad members. Coordinating with business stakeholders to understand application design and functionality to understand on the Use cases.

• Expectation is to bring in value adds on the product lifecycle and enhance existing product capabilities.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business

• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates

Processes

• Creating Functional & Non-Functional Test cases by liaising with relevant stakeholders in business, operations, and technology.
• Prepare Test Plan and Test Strategy by liaising with the Project team and agreeing realistic milestone that fits into project timeline.
• Defect Management, Independent Testing & Performance Testing.
• Testing support including providing answers to queries and test management when required.
• Review and coordinate with Business stake holders and other interface development team on test closure - and ensure any changes against the Functional spec.
• Provide support as required for UAT and UVT activities such as communication, scope, timelines, and risk.
• Bridging clarifications/gaps and signoffs from all relevant stakeholders for Functional & Non-Functional Test artifacts.
• Track and manage project progress as well as issues.

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Employ, engage and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
• Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.

Risk Management

• The ability to interpret and identify key risks issues in system and put in place appropriate controls and measures
• Monitor all major risk issues and concentrations. Where appropriate, direct remedial action and/or ensure adequate reporting to Risk Committees

Governance

• Accountable to govern the adherence to tech policies and processes required to support applications in production environment.
• Accountable to govern the adherence to tech policies and processes required for change of applications in production
• Accountable to govern the adherence to tech policies and processes required for incident and problem management

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's 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 to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Business domain head, Tribe leaders, Application and Interface teams, CERT team, CTM, Country and Group Businesses.

Our Ideal Candidate : -

• Minimum of 6+ years of IT experience in Application Testing.
• Programming languages - Experienced working with Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, or a similar object-oriented language is a must.
• Experience working in Automation frameworks like Business Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid Testing, Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured API
• Technical skills - DB queries, VB Script, Java Scripting, Postman, JMeter/SOAP, API Testing
• Mobile and chat messaging apps - Familiar with Messaging platforms (SMS, Email, Smart Apps).
• Experience working in an Agile Environment (using JIRA or ADO)
• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Technical Science.
• Complete at least 2 mid-size project cycles in last 12 months.
• Excellent communication skills and learning mindset
• Ability to work with multiple projects at the same time
• Ability to drive change and take leadership as required
• The customer-first mindset with a positive attitude
• Ability to adapt to changes in a fast-paced environment
• A keen interest in learning new technologies and exploring new trends
• Flexible and have excellent time management skills
• Attention to detail and self-development skills
• Code versioning tools like Git, Jenkins, etc.

Technical Skills:

• Programming languages - Experienced working with Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, or a similar object-oriented language is a must.
• Experience working in Automation frameworks like Business Driven, Data Driven, Hybrid Testing, Selenium, Cucumber, Rest Assured API
• Technical skills - DB queries, VB Script, Java Scripting, API Testing, Performance Testing using JMeter, LoadRunner
• Mobile and chat messaging apps - Familiar with Messaging platforms (SMS, Email, Smart Apps).
• Experience working in an Agile Environment (using JIRA or ADO)

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communicator with strong command in English
• Expressive, creative and ability to think out-of-box
• Enthusiastic problem solver with exceptional analytical skill
• Strong team player but able to complete tasks independently with minimal guidance
• Never settle mindset, always challenge the status quo
• High learning aptitude, able to learn new products and technology very quickly

Qualifications

• Field of Study Computer Science/Information Technology & related fields
• Certification Bachelor of Science or higher.

• Automation framework such as Genie, Cucumber, BDD etc.,
• Java, Selenium, Cucumber, RestAssured API, JavaScript, Python, Ruby
• Performance Testing using JMeter, LoadRunner
• Test Life Cycle.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Automation Testing Frameworks
• PostgreSQL, IBM DB2, Oracle, My SQL
• Unix
• AWS Cloud and Openshift container platform
• Java, Selenium, Cucumber, API Testing , Postman, JMeter, Performance Testing using JMeter, LoadRunner
• Agile Practices

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer
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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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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