Job Summary

Business
•    Lead and own testing process & delivery for various application streams.
•    Develop automation test strategy & test scripts.
•    Engage with stakeholders including Product Owners, Project Managers, Dev teams and downstream teams.
•    Assess impact of changes, build functional test strategy and plan.
•    Work closely with the application development and dev-ops to improve performance, scalability, and resiliency of the system.
•    Development of automation framework, common tools, and utilities

Key Responsibilities

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 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.
•    Serve as a Director of the Board 
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Key stakeholders

•    Product Manager, Business Analyst, other tech partners

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate:
•    Bachelor of Computer Science or exceptional relevant experience.
•    10 years of experience in automation testing.
•    Precise and critical thinker with attention to detail.
•    Fast learner.
•    Strong analytical & trouble shooting skills.
•    Open & trustworthy communication skills in both English and Mandarin.
•    Courageous to critique and suggest improvements.
•    Team-based ethics but independent thinker.

Technical Skills (Mandatory):
•    Strong development skills in Core Java.
•    Experience in API Testing (manual and automation).
•    Experience in test case Design, Review, Execution, Defect reporting & tracking.
•    Framework design and customization.
•    Agile practices (Scrum, TDD, BDD) a must.
•    Continuous Integration evangelist.
•    Familiar with testing and automation tools – Postman, GIT, Jira, Jenkins.

Technical Skills (Preferred):
•    Knowledge of BDD testing framework like Cucumber.
•    Knowledge of containerized and cloud environment, such as Docker, k8s/OpenShift, AWS, etc.
•    Functional knowledge in Payments, Collections, Trade.
•    Experience in API testing.
•    Experience in performance testing using JMeter/LoadRunner.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Core Java
•    Spring framework/Spring Boot
•    Spring Boot based Micro-services beneficial
•    Distributed systems experience, such as ZooKeeper, Cassandra, etc.
•    Service-oriented architecture using RESTful services
•    Experience on middleware technology e.g. Kafka, JMS
•    Experience on testing automation, Cucumber
•    Agile practices (Scrum, TDD, BDD)
•    Continuous Integration
•    Source code version control systems (GIT) 

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.