Job Summary

Test Environment Management

•    Strategic Planning: Aligning test environment strategy with overall project goals and timelines. 
•    Environment Configuration: Ensuring test environments accurately replicate production environments. 
•    Resource Management: Allocating and scheduling environment usage to prevent conflicts and optimize resource utilization. 
•    Version Control: Maintaining the correct and latest versions of Operating systems, path updates, software, tools, and databases within the test environment, 
•    Security and Access Management: Protecting the integrity of the test environment, Data and managing user access. 
•    Continuous Monitoring: Monitoring the health and performance of the test environment to identify and address issues proactively. 
•    Collaboration: Working with development, Testing, and other teams to ensure the test environment meets their needs. 
•    Problem Resolution: Diagnosing and resolving issues related to the test environment. identify risks/issues associated with the release process and work along with the Trade Platform services, Release Managers and Trade Test Manager to record, prevent, and minimize potential disruptions to releases.
•    Continuous Improvement: Identifying opportunities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of test environment management processes

Key Responsibilities

Test Data Management: 

•    Data maintenance: Ensure Data is available & maintained accurately in each environment
•    Data Security & Protection: Ensure all Production data is masked & no sensitive data is exposed in the Test environments
•    Synthetic data usage: Reduce the dependency on Production data by preparing synthetic data using automation tools & loading the same into the target test environments

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.

Key stakeholders

•    Test Managers, Hive Leads, Service owners, Release managers
•    Business - Product/Sales (Global, Regional, Country)

Qualifications

•    Education: Degree In Computer Science & It
•    Languages: English 

Skills and Experience

•    Negotiation Skills
•    Leadership
•    Stakeholder Management
•    Change Management
•    Problem Solving
•    Communication Management
•    Concern for Quality and Standards
•    Project Coordination
•    Project Reporting
•    Project Schedule Development and Management
•    Project Financial Management
•    Project Reporting
•    Risk & Issue Management
•    Scope Development and Management
•    Understands and follows Bank governance processes
•    Utilises a formal Project 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.