Job Summary

Strategy

•    Candidate is aware and understands the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.
•    Adopt and understand the knowledge of functional and technical aspects of application 
•    Understands Requirements and architecture of the application
•    Develop testing strategies and framework to meet the testing mandate.
•    Develop and document Programme test plan
•    Author and maintain Test Management Plan documentation
•    Documenting tests findings and results
•    Provide QC and QA for of each project plans
•    Share experience with existing teams to improve testing policy and procedures.
•    Perform systematic independent reviews and assurance reviews across the programme

Business

•    Candidate is aware and understands the business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates

Processe

•    Responsible for developing and executing the Test cases , ADO scripts 

Risk Management

•    Candidate is aware and understands the main risks facing the Group and the role the individual plays in managing them

Key stakeholders

•    Change Team, Development Team and Country users in Capital Regulatory

Key Responsibilities

People & Talent

•    Testing Expertise and Continuous Improvement
•    Provide expertise and recommendation to automate testing where possible
•    Become an expert and implement bank’s testing standards across the programme
•    Coach, develop and manage testing teams in matrix environment.
•    Experience in testing across multiyear programmes
•    Identify cross project issues/audit observations and capture learning and best practices for future efforts
•    Promote a culture of innovation 
•    Continuously seek opportunities for improvement within role, processes, team, and portfolio 
•    Keep up to date of industry project assurance methodologies and practices 
•    Influence stakeholders to ensure successful management of programmes and projects
•    Educate stakeholders to improve project and portfolio effectiveness
•    Technology trend alignments 
Flexibility and Programme Ambiguity
•    Anticipate future testing, automation needs of the programme based on the defined programme vision
•    Effectively works with global on and offshore teams 
•    Ability to collaborate with different teams
•    Present and effectively advocate for the Programme

Other Responsibilities

•    Good knowledge in both Manual and Automation testing
•    Good in communication, Stakeholder management, team engagement.  
•    Familiar with Confluence, ADO process and Testing methodologies  
•    Good to have: technical skills  
•    SQL  
•    Pyspark – (Python +Spark)  
•    ETL testing  
•    Shell scripting 
•    Good to have: : Automation skills  
•    Primary: Selenium, Cucumber/ BDD framework  
•    Designing and reviewing the test scripts
•    Reviewing the test execution results
•    Reviewing the final test results
•    Understanding of Test automation standard and test automation technology compliance
•    Good knowledge of ADO tool and be able to create Dashboard
•    Take a proactive approach to save effort and improve efficiency
•    Ensure effective utilisation of the test automation suite and meet planned ROI on a regular basis
•    Knowledgeable to prepare estimates for large projects
•    Deliver projects within cost, schedule & quality
•    Creative to resolve technical challenges during scripting and execution
•    Understand the business criticality of the application and ensure risks/issues are captured
•    Implement standard test reporting 
•    Planning and manage test environments
•    Test evidence to be as per the regulatory compliances 

Our Ideal Candidate

•    SQL
•    ETL
•    Database
•    ADO tool

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.