Job Summary

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.

Key Responsibilities

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.  

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

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
Head of Solution Delivery
Technology Assurance Owners
Delivery leads

Skills and Experience

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

Qualifications

•    Very Good knowledge in e-SDLC process and Azure DevOps
•    Participate in the selection and implementation of new tools and technologies to support control process improvements and control automation
•    Analyse current processes and document workflows, procedures, and policies to identify opportunities for improvement.
•    Collaborate with the DevOps team to ensure that the development process aligns with DevOps principles and practices 
•    Develop dashboards to track and report on Control Metrics performance and communicate the results to stakeholders
•    Should be able liaise on Audits, ability to handle Regulatory compliances and perform risks
•    Hand on experience in implementing various services in Azure cloud resources like storage, load balancers, DNS, logging and monitoring etc.
•    Deep knowledge in cloud networking(vnet , route table, Azure firewall, NSG etc)
•    Hands on experience in Kubernetes(deployment, scaling, backup and restore etc)
•    Hands on experience in Linux and database administration activites(Oracle,  MySQL and PostgreSQL)
•    Exposure towards OS level patching and upgrades.
•    Exposure to diff deployments strategy (blue green and canary)
•    Good debugging skill for any cloud related issues.

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.