Job Summary

•    We are looking for a Senior QA/Test Automation Engineer with extensive experience in automation testing, framework design, and quality engineering best practices. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving automation initiatives, mentoring junior team members, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, stable, and efficient testing solutions.

Key Responsibilities

•    Lead and perform API and UI automation testing using Cucumber (BDD) and custom automation frameworks.
•    Independently manage automation projects — including requirement analysis, script development, debugging, execution, and reporting.
•    Enhance and optimize existing automation frameworks, driving efficiency improvements and reducing test maintenance efforts.
•    Implement continuous integration and continuous testing pipelines with tools such as Jenkins and Git, ensuring seamless automation execution.
•    Manage and participate in the end-to-end testing lifecycle — including test strategy, requirement validation, test design, execution, defect tracking, and closure.
•    Collaborate closely with cross-functional Agile teams (developers, business analysts, and product owners) to ensure quality delivery.
•    Drive adoption of QA best practices, shift-left testing, and automation-driven validation.
•    Provide mentorship and technical guidance to team members on automation frameworks, code reviews, and test strategy improvements.
•    Actively contribute to root cause analysis, continuous process improvement, and test innovation initiatives.
•    Maintain strong alignment with project timelines and deliverables under fast-paced, Agile environments.

People & Talent
•    9+ years of diversified experience in manual and automation testing, specializing in mobile and web application automation frameworks.
•    Expert in designing and implementing scalable test automation frameworks and reusable test components.
•    Proficient in Java, JavaScript, and SQL with strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
•    Hands-on experience with Selenium, Appium, Playwright, and Cucumber (BDD) frameworks.
•    Skilled in integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Git, and related DevOps tools.
•    Strong understanding of software quality engineering principles, Agile methodologies, and SDLC/STLC processes.
•    Excellent communication and leadership skills, with experience mentoring junior engineers and managing test deliverables across distributed teams.
•    Proactive, detail-oriented, and result-driven professional with a passion for continuous improvement and test excellence.

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

•    Online banking global team

Skills and Experience

•    Software Testing and Automation Testing
•    Software Config Management
•    Database (Oracle / Postgres)
•    DevOPS
•    Analytical and problem solving
•    Stakeholder Management
•    Change Management Process
•    Software Config Management 

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.