Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Test Lead to oversee the testing lifecycle of our software development projects. The Test Lead will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing test strategies to ensure the delivery of high-quality software solutions. This role involves leading a team of testers, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring adherence to best practices in testing and quality assurance.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Develop and implement comprehensive test plans, strategies, and schedules.
•    Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers and testers.
•    Coordinate with development, product, and project management teams to ensure test coverage.
•    Execute manual and automated testing, including functional, regression, performance, and integration tests.
•    Identify, document, and track defects to resolution.
•    Ensure compliance with quality standards and best practices.
•    Provide regular test progress and quality reports to stakeholders.

Business
•    Work closely with architects and infrastructure teams and review the solutions.
•    Interact with support teams periodically and get input on the various business users’ needs.
•    Provide all the required input and assistance to the business users in performing the api integration.

Processes
•    Should have successfully implemented or delivered projects using industry best practices in banking and financing industry
•    Actively participate in discussions with business users and seek endorsements and approvals wherever necessary w.r.t technology project delivery.

People & Talent 
•    Minimum 12 years of experience in the UI and REST api development.
•    Collaborate with teams globally to deliver, present ideas and innovate
•    Model behaviours that facilitate Agile delivery 
•    Knowledge on usability testing tools.
•    Proven experience as a Test Lead or similar role.
•    Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes.
•    Hands-on experience with test automation tools (e.g., Selenium, JUnit, TestNG).
•    Familiarity with Agile/Scrum development methodologies.
•    Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills.

Risk Management
•    Assess and evaluate the risks that are related to the project delivery and update the management team with appropriate remediation and mitigation approach.
•    Review the technical solutions and deliverables with onshore delivery leads and key technology stakeholders and ensure that the deliverables are adhering to the risk governance rules

Governance 
•    Work with Technology Governance and support teams and establish standards for simplifying the existing ui and api performence
•    Take end to end ownership of managing and administering the UI and api development

Key stakeholders
•    Lending Tech PO, Project/Dev, PSS, DevOps, Artifactory teams, Platform and Integration, Interface, Biz, Vendor teams

Skills and Experience

•    DevOps solution
•    DevOps CI/CD
•    Banking or Lending Domain knowledge
•    Coding skills – ANSIBLE, Phyton, Shell or Powershell etc
•    SQL scripting

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.