Job Summary

Market Risk Platform (MRP) is Standard Chartered’s financial risk consolidation, aggregation and reporting platform for Market Risk. The development team is a world class technology group in Standard Chartered bank to provide technical solutions to support the bank’s Financial Markets business as well as support requirements from other projects with a wider scope such as regulatory books of work. We bring a deep understanding of the market, a scientific approach, and innovative technologies to bear on the challenges of profitable trading in the world's highly competitive environment. This is a rare opportunity to get into an organization working with smart, great technologists globally in financial markets domain. The culture in MRP is open, intellectual, and fun. Learning opportunities are plentiful: organized classes and seminars; freewheeling discussions; intensive one-on-one mentorships. Career advancement is always waiting for those high-energized talents to pursue.

The successful candidate will play a role in the implementation of highly visible strategic programmes with the primary responsibilities around building components within the MRP platform. Any developed solution must be scalable, robust and fault tolerant catering to the existing and future business needs in a timely manner. In addition, the successful candidate will be expected to develop innovative solutions with a view to these being released quickly to gain feedback before advising on the full scale roll out.

The candidate will be a natural technology enthusiast with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility and accountability for critical components, and will have come from a mature and demonstrable agile background and be comfortable dealing with the resistance that comes with change. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with business analysts, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations.

Key Responsibilities

•    Identify issues in requirements, functional specifications, design/interface specifications, application architecture and product documentation
•    Develop Test specifications based on various requirement documents within schedule constraints and prepare traceability for the test cases
•    Perform functional test execution activities as per testing engagement level in the project.
•    Execute automation code implemented during the early phase of sprint as per the execution plan, ensure timely completion with quality delivery
•    Document software product defects and track it to closure.
•    Enhance skills on the automation tools & techniques
•    Develop automation scripts for the enhancements as applicable for the application & project
•    Assist the Team members in day-to-day testing activities, such as test monitoring and status reporting at the end of the testing day.
•    Ensure the test environment readiness for SIT And regression testing
•    Review the regression testing suite for each release and ensure all impacted areas/components test scenarios are included.
•    Participate in project meetings to provide feedback and statistics of the project in relation to the test quality.
•    Demonstrate teamwork and collaborative efforts always
•    Conduct reviews and inspections of project/testing deliverables
•    Set up necessary monitoring / profiling tools to identify and isolate performance bottle necks.
•    Understand the bank’s automation framework and drive the implementation and maintenance of the same within the team.
•    Ability to implement the automation for user stories during the sprint and not sprint+1
•    Work with Head of Testing in implementation of the Automation Test Strategy and roadmap for the area.
•    Facilitator for creation of regression test script for automation and execution of regression test pack work as part of Agile scrum team

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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

Technical Knowledge
•    1+ year of experience in software Testing (preferably banking domain)
•    2+ years of Automation experience using Python or Java
•    Strong knowledge in Core Java or
•    Strong knowledge in Python 
•    Good experience in data reconciliation , data comparison and data validation between API response and CSV files and other file formats using backend automation 
•    Strong experience of  Web Service, REST API, Microservices automation 
•    Knowledge on continuous integration (Jenkins) and execution using jenkins
•    Experience in SQL and DB testing Automation
•    Experience in using GIT/Stash for code version 
•    Agile environment and testing frameworks 
Good to have  
•    Knowledge of Market Risk/Risk Domain is huge plus
•    Good to have experience in Python (concepts)/Selenium automation using BDD cucumber framework
•    Comfortable with basic shell scripting in a Unix environment
•    Knowledge of Cloud Technologies e.g. AWS, Azure, Cloud Storage such as S3/HCP/Azure Storage
Other Preferred Skills
•    Strong analytical & problem solving and creative skills
•    Good communication skills in both written and oral English
•    Cultural sensitivity and awareness to work with a range of people from diverse background and geographies
•    Accomplish tasks accurately and on a timely basis with less supervision
•    Should have a technical or numerate degree in subjects such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or Economics, advanced degree preferred

Qualifications

•    2+ years of software automation testing experience (data driven, E2E backend automation and Rest API automation), using Java
•    Data reconciliation 
•    Strong knowledge in Core Java (control structures, arguments, variables, files, date/time, lists, dicts, map, comprehension, generators, lambdas, regexp, classes)
•    Good experience in implementing data recon, data comparison and data validation 
•    Experience using cucumber/BDD framework

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.