Job Summary

•    Manage, coordinate, and oversee the various test phases as mandated by bank’s unified test control framework and System Delivery Framework.
•    Extensive experience in Preparation of Estimation, Test Strategy, Test plan, Test Scenarios, Test Scripts, Test Data, Test Summary Reports, and other.
•    Day to day management of change requests in relation to the project plans to ensure agreed deadlines are met.
•    Foster strong working & collaborative relationships with the business & technology stakeholders.
•    Align Test activities with the overall project plan and change agenda of the wider program
•    Effectively communicate to stakeholders the test status, highlight risks, and propose issue resolution
•    Ensure transition from Technology Testing to the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase
•    Develop test automation frameworks, tools and test suites in response to growing features
•    Champion best practice engineering principles to build high quality software
•    Be an integral part of an Agile engineering team and work collaboratively with fellow engineers and product owners
•    Mentor & provide guidance to members in testing methodologies
•    Good knowledge of Java development and OOPs
•    Proven experience in Software Quality Engineering and Test processes, including modern CI processes and Test Automation
•    Well-versed with Agile methodology and global delivery model
•    Excellent communication skills.
•    Ensure the quality and timeliness of delivery of testing assignments
•    Mitigate risks to business through timely and precise execution of test cases in testing
•    Retest defects after fixes. Under moderate supervision execute tests to ensure that information systems and services meet group standards and end-user requirements

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Define and implement test strategies, plans, and processes for complex projects.
•    Lead and mentor a team of testers, providing technical guidance and support.
•    Coordinate with development, business, and project management teams to ensure quality deliverables.
•    Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
•    Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test cases.
•    Manage defect tracking, reporting, and resolution processes.
•    Ensure test environments and test data are prepared and maintained.
•    Monitor and report on test progress, quality metrics, and risks.
•    Drive continuous improvement in testing processes and tools.
•    Ensure compliance with organizational quality standards and best practices.

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.

Skills and Experience

•    BI Tools like MicroStrategy, Power BI, Tableau 
•    Programming skills like Python, Scala, or Java for custom ETL and automation
•    Good to know Cloud Platforms like AWS (Glue, Redshift, S3, Lambda), Azure (Data Factory, Synapse), or GCP (Dataflow, BigQuery)
•    Data Visualization/Reporting like Tableau, Power BI, Looker
•    Workflow Orchestration like Apache Airflow, Control-M, or similar schedulers
•    API Integration like REST/SOAP APIs for ingesting or pushing data
•    Very good verbal and written communication skills 
•    Hands-on experience in API testing & developing automation test script for mobile or tablet devices using Appium.
•    Good understanding of Linux operating system and hands on work experience in Linux operating system is desirable
•    Ability to identify new testing techniques and tools.
•    Excellent problem-solving skills.
•    Excellent team player and exhibit a positive attitude
•    Strong collaboration, oral and written skills.
•    Upgrade of tools to latest version for maximum business impact 
•    Tools Usability Tracking & Reporting

Qualifications

•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
•    Ability to communicate orally and in writing in a clear and straightforward manner with a broad range of technical and non-technical users and stakeholders
•    Proactive and focused on results and success; conveys a sense of urgency and drives issues to closure
•    Should be a team player and leader, flexible, hardworking, and self-motivated and have a positive outlook with the ability to take on difficult initiatives and challenges
•    Ability to handle multiple concurrent projects

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.