Job Summary

The Financial Markets Rates and Credit eTrading Development Team is a specialist team responsible for the design and development of an industry leading Fixed Income eTrading platform.

This role is an exciting opportunity for Functional QA Specialist with extensive experience in functional testing of applications or system flows catering to electronic trading of Front office  (Equity / Fixed Income / Foreign exchange) products.

 Rates & Credit eTrading platform is combination of ION vendor product components & inhouse custom components for our eTrading platform providing pricing, quote contribution and trading integration for D2C and D2D markets dealing with Bonds, Interest Rates Swaps (IRS), Credit Default Swaps (CDS), FX options connectivity for the Rates, Credit & FX businesses.   The platform also includes various in-house Java components for Algorithmic Trading and electronic Straight Through Processing (STP) of trade booking flows.  The Algo components are helping to automate trading flows to free up traders for performing more value add for clients.

 This Functional QA Specialist role is an exciting opportunity to be part of a Global Rates & Credit eTrading team that is distributed across London, Bangalore and Singapore locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate strong business knowledge of Fixed Income electronic trading systems and a deep understanding of Fixed Income Landscape
• Be SMEs on the testing of Fixed Income eTrading systems with extensive knowledge of Bonds, IRS & CDS
• Familiarity with D2C markets like Bloomberg, Market axess, TradeWeb and D2D markets.
• Experience in Basic Unix commands.
• Experience of working through all stages of testing life cycle processes with a goal of delivering changes into production without any defects
• Experience of working in Agile SCRUM or Kanban frameworks.
• Experience in review and execution of bdd scripts.
• Possess excellent communication skills to facilitate accurate and efficient communication across globally distributed development and test teams.
• Quick Learner, good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Be customer oriented & focused individual with positive attitude

Skills and Experience

• Demonstrate strong business knowledge of Fixed Income electronic trading systems and a deep understanding of Fixed Income Landscape
• Be SMEs on the testing of Fixed Income eTrading systems with extensive knowledge of Bonds, IRS & CDS
• Familiarity with D2C markets like Bloomberg, Market axess, TradeWeb and D2D markets.
• Experience in Basic Unix commands.
• Experience of working through all stages of testing life cycle processes with a goal of delivering changes into production without any defects
• Experience of working in Agile SCRUM or Kanban frameworks.
• Experience in review and execution of bdd scripts.
• Possess excellent communication skills to facilitate accurate and efficient communication across globally distributed development and test teams.
• Quick Learner, good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Be customer oriented & focused individual with positive attitude

Qualifications

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science / IT or related technical field (or equivalent experience).

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.