Job Summary

This role could be based in India and Malaysia. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you select a country where the role is based
To lead and govern end-to-end test delivery and governance for the GCIO organisation as part of the strategic GDCW data centre migration programme. This role will play a critical leadership function in ensuring successful migration of applications to the new data centre (GDCE/GDCW), while maintaining high standards of quality, risk management, and business continuity.
The Testing Lead will be accountable for test strategy execution, delivery oversight, and governance across multiple domains, including Group Functions (GF), WRB, CIB, and other GCIO portfolios

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Define and drive the overall application-level testing strategy for GCIO under the GDCW programme, aligned to migration timelines and business priorities 
•    Establish a standardised, scalable testing approach across domains covering system, integration, business, performance and migration testing cycles.
•    Embed AI-driven and automation-led testing strategy to improve quality, speed, and coverage 
•    Align testing objectives with programme outcomes – seamless migration, minimal disruption, and regulatory compliance
Business
•    Ensure validation of critical business journeys, IBS applications, and customer-impacting flows during migration 
•    Partner with Business & Operations teams to confirm readiness and acceptance prior to cutover 
•    Support business continuity through effective pre-migration, dress rehearsal, and go-live validations 
•    Drive accountability for business signoffs and production readiness
Processes
•    Establish and standardise end-to-end test lifecycle processes (planning, design, execution, defect management, sign-off)
•    Govern execution of Migration Test Plans (MTP), test case management, and execution tracking in ADO
•    Ensure structured execution of test phases – pre-prod testing, integration testing, business validation, and dress rehearsals.
•    Continuously improve testing processes to enhance efficiency, traceability, and quality outcomes

Risk Management
•    Identify, assess, and mitigate testing risks across applications, environments, and dependencies 
•    Ensure coverage of data migration, integration dependencies, resilience, and failover scenarios 
•    Proactively manage defects, blockers, and cross-domain risks impacting migration timelines 
•    Support programme objective of near-zero business disruption during cutover
Governance
•    Establish strong test governance framework including reporting, auditability, and control mechanisms 
•    Lead defect triage forums, readiness reviews, and testing governance cadence (weekly dashboards, CXO reports)
•    Provide transparent status reporting on test progress, risks, and readiness to GCIO and COO stakeholders 
•    Ensure adherence to programme milestones, release train schedules, and quality gates

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Ensure all testing activities comply with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and audit standards
•    Maintain strong controls over data integrity, security validations, and operational readiness testing
•    Support compliance with risk, governance, and control frameworks during DC migration
•    Uphold organisation values of integrity, accountability, and responsible technology delivery
•    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
•    COO Organisation 
•    GCIO Leadership 
•    GDCW Programme PMO / Command Centre 
•    Domain Technology Leads
•    Business & Operations Stakeholders
•    Risk, Audit & Compliance Functions

Skills and Experience

•    Quality Engineering
•    Program Management
•    Test Strategy & Lifecycle Management
•    Test Automation & AI-led Testing
•    Test Environment & Data Management
•    Risk & Governance
•    Tooling & Platforms

Qualifications

Education
•    Bachelor’s Degree In Information Technology or Computer Science
Certifications
•    ISTQB
Languages
•    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.