Job Summary

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•    The Engineering Excellence & DevOps team sitting in Technology Strategy & Architecture organization are seeking a testing automation engineer with 8 or more years of experience to be an engineering manager, delivering DevOps and Testing Automation related software solutions.

Strategy

•    Understand the bank’s DevOps strategy and implementing automation solutions to improve the bank’s software delivery pipeline. 

Business

•    This role requires broad engagement with application delivery teams across the bank, helping them adopt DevOps pipeline solutions to improve delivery efficiency and maturity.

Processes

•    Understand the bank’s software delivery processes and implement solutions in line with the bank’s compliance and security requirement. 

Key Responsibilities

People & Talent

•    Work collaboratively with a team of diverse engineers in sprint delivery.
•    Produce technical documentation and prepare training materials on the solutions being delivered and provide technical support.
•    Conduct briefing and/or training sessions to application delivery teams to help them get onboarded and accelerate adoption.

Risk Management

•    Understand bank’s risk management framework and embed that into the technology solution being delivered.

Governance

•    Understand bank’s software delivery & quality assurance framework and assist in solutioning in respective governance activity.

Skills and Experience

Regulatory & Business Conduc

•    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.

Key stakeholders

•    Head of Solution Delivery
•    Technology Assurance Owners
•    Delivery leads

Qualifications

•    Candidate having atleast 7-10 years of experience in building fullstack applications 
•    Advanced knowledge of front-end languages including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, React JS and JQuery.
•    Hand on experience in Kafka integration and data transformation using Java
•    Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, Graph QL using Node JS
•    Experience in running web applications at scale on Kubernetes platform 
•    Experience in ELK stack with data insturementation & telemetery 
•    Knowledge of database systems like  SQL & RDS
•    Experience in AWS cloud and exposure towards different services will be added advantage
•    Hands-on experience in implementing automated testing solutions with frameworks such as Cucumber, Selenium, Appium.    
•    Hands-on experience in Java. Proficient in additional languages such as .NET, javascript, Scala, Python, Kotlin is a bonus    
•    Hands-on experience with Test Management tooling such as Azure devops Test Plan is highly desirable    
•    Experience in devops with exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible is desirable    
•    Experience with Unix and Windows host operating systems, scripting (Bash/Shell or powershell) & networking is desirable    
•    Experience with cloud services such as AWS EC2 as well as container platform such as Docker and Kubernetes is bonus    

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.