JOB SUMMARY

Fund Accounting & Transfer Agency Functional Specialist and Automation Tester

RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy
As part of DCCP- Financial Securities Services Technology, the Testing resource is recruited to perform the testing and Deliver quality product to support various initiatives that enables Operations to fulfil Client requirements

Business
Technical Requirement:
•    Experience in understanding the complex buss. Requirements
•    Experience in Designing the test cases for testing the vendor-based Oracle application and Enterprise applications in .Net
•    Should have good experience in Automation Framework development & testing of open-source tools like selenium, cucumber or any licensed software.
•    Should have knowledge in API automation testing of Rest Assure and Postman.
•    Should have experience in Oracle /SQL server, Python.
•    Good knowledge on testing the DWBI technology of application & Testing.
•    Should be able to work on data preparation & Validation for various Buss. Requirements.

Functional Requirement:
•    Experience in Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency and (or) Hedge Fund Administration. Knowledge of market instruments and conventions. 
•    Specialism within Fund Accounting/ client reporting/ investment operations. 
•    Hands –on in MultiFonds Fund Administration and Global Investor products or equivalent Fund Accounting Products
•    The resource would need to be a Senior Test Practitioner, with extensive experience (10+ years) of delivery and risk challenges associated with cross border/complex matrix programmes.  
•    Have a proven track record of designing and developing comprehensive test strategy and recommendations of best practice and approach to agile delivery.
•    Able to demonstrate thought leadership in testing best practice and supporting tools.
•    Able to provide strategic approach in parallel with build/execution.
•    Senior stakeholder engagement experience.
•    Able to produce appropriate level reporting for Steering Committee Meetings and Senior Leadership
•    Highly experienced in test automation solutions and implementations
•    Detailed understanding of software development life cycle and importance of QA in development and maintenance of software app
•    Solid knowledge of JIRA, XML and Excel 
•    Strong communication skills
Responsibilities:                
•    Preparation of test scenarios and test cases
•    Identify the test data required to complete designated test activities.
•    Deliver effort estimation and reporting of daily progress.

Risk Management
Proactively identify any vulnerabilities in requirements and design through static testing and test the application environment and address as and when necessary. 

Governance 
Maintain all test controls as per SDF mandated process. Follow Release management standards and tools to deploy the deliverable to production. Handover to Production Support as per process 

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.
•    Lead the [Agile Squad] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders
Funds and Securities Services Operations, Technology and Production Support.

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values, Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)
•    Coordinates between Development team, Product Vendor and Business Stakeholders for requirement finalization.
•    Understand Functional Requirement.
•    Provide quality delivery by developing comprehensive test cases that is required to test the various components or reports.
•    Perform SIT, RT and assist UAT and support PSS whenever there is a need.
•    Proactively identify the testing coverage by visualizing the error prone areas and ways to test those workflows and functionalities.
•    Coordinates between various internal support teams.
•    Picks up new technologies with ease, solves complex technical problems and multitasks between different projects

Our Ideal Candidate
•    Manual Testing
•    Oracle /SQL server
•    Automation (Selenium, Cucumber)
•    ADO, JIRA & ALM
•    Domain Experience in Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency and (or) Hedge Fund Administration
•    Agile Methodology

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.