Job Summary

What You Will Do
•    Design and Develop Automated Tests: Create automated tests for APIs to ensure functionality and quality.
•    Execute Automated Tests: Run automated tests to identify defects and ensure API reliability.
•    API Testing: Test APIs to ensure they meet business requirements and are defect-free.
•    Collaborate with Teams: Work with development teams to identify and resolve API issues.
•    Test Planning & Strategy: Defining the scope, quality metrics, resource allocation, and testing methodologies (manual/automation).
•    Reporting & Communication: Submitting daily/weekly status reports to stakeholders and highlighting risks or bottlenecks.
•    Quality Assurance & Process Improvement: Reviewing test cases, enforcing standards, and refining the testing process.
•    Tracking defects and ensuring resolution: Track and manage defects using ADO. Liaise with developers, product owners and cross-functional teams to resolve defects promptly.
•    Risk Management: Identifying, assessing, and mitigating potential risks in the testing process.
•    Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
•    Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of CIB systems, Cards, Payments, Client onboarding.
•    Mentor and guide junior QA engineers.
What You Need to Be Successful
•    API Testing Experience: 8+ years of experience in API testing and Automation.
•    Programming Skills: Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Java, Selenium) and SQL.

•    Automation Tools: In depth expertise in automation testing tools (e.g., Postman, RestAssured).
•    Analytical Mindset: Ability to analyse API functionality and identify defects.
•    Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
•    Experience with Testing Frameworks: Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools.
•    Excellent documentation skills to maintain clear and concise records of testing activities. This includes writing test plans, test cases, and test reports.
•    The software testing landscape undergoes continuous transformation, with emerging tools, technologies, and methodologies reshaping the field regularly. As a Test Lead, cultivating adaptability and maintaining a commitment to continuous learning is essential to enhance testing processes, drive quality improvements, and deliver better outcomes for our team and organization.
Bonus Points if You Have
•    CI/CD Pipeline Experience: Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
•    Excellent communication and leadership capabilities.
•    Proficiency in performance & security testing techniques and tools
What Makes You Eligible
•    Relevant Experience: 8+ years of experience in API automation testing.
•    Bachelor’s/master’s in engineering or related field.
•    Technical Skills: Strong technical skills in API testing, automation, and programming.
•    Strong Analytical Skills: Ability to analyse complex API functionality and identify defects.
•    Strong understanding of banking domain and applications.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    To achieve business and organization goals.
•    Deliver solutions aligned to the Bank’s Fit For Growth programme.
Business
•    Collaborate with the product owners, squad members and business stakeholders within CIB Business.
•    Help manage the agile backlog of development work for squad.
Processes
•    Follow the Bank’s internal software delivery practices, ensuring all security controls are strictly adhered to
People & Talent
•    Analytical and problem solving
•    Communication
•    Teamwork
•    Stakeholder Management
•    Coaching
•    Planning and Organisation
•    Judgement and decision making
•    Group policies and processes
Risk Management
•    Manage delivery risk and proactively solve delivery challenges to meet critical deadlines.

Governance
•    Ensure compliance to internal API Governance and testing standards
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
•    DCDA Product Owner team
•    API Delivery team

Skills and Experience

•    Java
•    Selenium
•    Rest Assured
•    SQL
•    API
•    Postman
•    Git
•    Agile practices (Scrum, TDD, BDD)

Qualifications

Education
•    Bachelors degree in computer science or related field
Certifications
•    Any Certification
Language
•    English

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.