Job Summary

We are seeking talented and motivated individuals for the role of Spl'st, QA & Testing. Successful candidates will be experienced programmers who can develop user stories, develop test cases, break down, design, and develop solutions in an environment with constant collaborative discussions. They will be matured individuals who are comfortable working in an agile environment with critical peer reviews of design and code. They must be able to offer constructive critical reviews of other’s designs and code. They must be able to collaboratively work with product owners to develop use stories and test cases. They will be able to research, trial, and recommend new technologies of interest to the group. They will have experience with taking code through testing, deployment, and production and will not have merely handed off code to QA and Production Support.

Key Responsibilities

• Awareness and understanding of retail business, wider audience, economic and market environment in which the group operates.
• Awareness and understanding of Agile s/w development process, change and release management.
• Strong development and testing life cycle knowledge
• Strong sense of responsibility in managing the workload and deliverables.
• Skill to coordinate with clients and with respect to all the testing.
• Good project management and communication skills
• Should be able to highlight and escalate risks/impediments to the SM
• Constant communication and follow-ups with various stake holders to track deliverables during test planning, preparation and execution phases as applicable.
• Send out daily status report with accurate execution and defect metrics to SM for the agreed cut off time set for the application release/project.
• Participate in project meetings to provide feedback and statistics of the project in relation to the test quality.

Skills and Experience

• Should possess strong knowledge in Java, Automated testing, Gherkin/ Cucumber, Selenium, Appium, API testing, RDBMS and JMeter performance scripting.
• 8+ years of  Testing Experience required
• Strong understanding of RESTful and SOAP APIs.
• Proficiency in Postman, Rest Assured, SoapUI, or similar API testing tools.
• Experience with API automation using Java.
• Familiarity with SQL for database validation.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps.
• Knowledge of API documentation tools like Swagger.
• Develop, execute, and maintain test cases for RESTful and SOAP APIs.
• Identify, log, and track defects, collaborating with developers to resolve issues.
• Create test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test reports.
• Analyse API performance using tools like JMeter.
• Expert in APIs security standards by testing authentication, authorization, and data protection.
• Work closely with developers, business analysts, and QA teams to enhance product quality.
• Strong understanding of BDD cucumber frameworks

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Technical Skills required

• Rest Assured API Automation, Postman
• Selenium
• Cucumber, BDD
• Java
• Azure DevOps
• SQL, Postgres
• JMeter

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.

Recruitment Assessments

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