Job Summary

Senior Test Automation Engineer

We are seeking a skilled Senior Test Automation Engineer to join our dynamic technology team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining robust automated test suites across API and UI layers for mission-critical trading and financial applications, ensuring quality, reliability, and regulatory compliance across our global financial market business.

Key Responsibilities

Test Automation Strategy & Design
•    Design and implement scalable, maintainable automated test frameworks covering API, UI (web), and end-to-end (E2E) test layers
•    Translate business requirements and acceptance criteria into layered test strategies (unit / API / UI / E2E) and BDD-style Gherkin feature files
•    Define test data strategy, environment management, and test coverage standards aligned with product risk profile

Development & Implementation
•    Build and maintain automated test suites using industry-standard frameworks (e.g. Cucumber/BDD, Playwright, Selenium, REST-assured)
•    Implement API-level automation validating request/response contracts, business rules, and data integrity
•    Implement UI/E2E automation validating critical user journeys across web applications
•    Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines for continuous execution and fast feedback

Technical Excellence
•    Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented test code and glue logic following established coding standards
•    Participate in code reviews of test automation assets and contribute to continuous improvement of test practices
•    Triage test failures, distinguish flaky tests from genuine defects, and drive root-cause resolution
•    Stay current with emerging test automation tools, frameworks, and industry best practices

Collaboration & Communication
•    Work closely with backend developers, frontend developers, SRE, BAs, product managers, and business stakeholders to embed quality throughout the SDLC
•    Participate in agile development processes including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives
•    Contribute to technical documentation, test reports, and knowledge sharing initiatives
•    Mentor junior QA engineers and share automation expertise across the team

Quality & Compliance
•    Ensure test coverage meets defined quality gates (e.g. minimum coverage thresholds) before releases
•    Support regression, smoke, and release-readiness testing across test/UAT/production environments
•    Ensure automated tests validate security, data integrity, and regulatory requirements where applicable
•    Participate in defect management, root-cause analysis, and continuous test process improvement

Skills and Experience

•    Test Automation Framework (BDD/Cucumber preferred)
•    UI Automation (Playwright, Selenium)
•    API Automation (REST-assured / Postman)
•    Programming Language (Java or TypeScript)
•    CI/CD Integration (Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
•    Build & Packaging Tools (Maven, npm)
•    Test Automation Framework (BDD/Cucumber preferred)

Qualifications

Technical Skills
•    3-8 years of experience in software test automation or SDET roles
•    Proficiency in at least one programming language used for test automation (Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python)
•    Hands-on experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow) and Gherkin feature file authoring
•    Hands-on experience with UI automation frameworks (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress)
•    Hands-on experience with API automation frameworks (REST-assured, Postman/Newman, or equivalent)
•    Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or equivalent)
•    Understanding of RESTful APIs, HTTP protocols, and asynchronous testing patterns
•    Experience with build/dependency tools (Maven, Gradle, npm)
•    Knowledge of test management and defect tracking tools (Azure DevOps Test Plans, Jira/Xray, or equivalent)

Professional Skills
•    Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking abilities
•    Excellent communication and collaboration skills
•    Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile environment
•    Attention to detail and commitment to quality
•    Proactive approach to learning and professional development

Education
•    Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
•    Banking or financial services domain knowledge advantageous

Preferred Requirements
•    Experience testing distributed/microservice architectures (REST + gRPC + WebSocket)
•    Understanding of banking/financial services domain, particularly FX/trading systems
•    Experience with performance/load testing tools (JMeter, k6, Gatling)
•    Exposure to AI-assisted test generation or BDD-driven development pipelines

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.