Key Responsibilities

Strategy 
Awareness and understanding of business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business
Awareness and understanding of retail business, wider audience, economic and market environment in which the group operates.

Processes
Awareness and understanding of Agile s/w development process, change and release management.

People & Talent
•    Strong development and testing life cycle knowledge
•    Strong sense of responsibility in managing the workload and deliverables.
•    Skill to coordinate with clients and with respect to all the testing.
•    Good project management and communication skills

Test Planning and Design
•    Develop comprehensive test plans and test cases for AI models and systems.
•    Define testing strategies and methodologies tailored to generative AI applications.
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and design effective test scenarios.

Test Execution
•    Execute manual and automated tests to validate AI models and their outputs.
•    Perform functional, regression, performance testing on AI systems.
•    Identify, document, and track defects and issues through to resolution.

Automation and Tools
•    Develop and maintain automated test scripts for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
•    Utilize AI-specific testing tools and frameworks to enhance test coverage and efficiency.
•    Explore and implement new tools and technologies to improve the testing process.

Quality Assurance
•    Ensure the quality and reliability of AI models by validating data inputs, model training processes, and outputs.
•    Conduct thorough reviews of AI model performance, accuracy, and fairness.
•    Monitor and report on testing progress, results, and quality metrics.

Risk Management
•    Should be able to highlight and escalate risks/impediments to the SM

Governance
•    Constant communication and follow-ups with various stake holders to track deliverables during test planning, preparation and execution phases as applicable.
•    Send out daily status report with accurate execution and defect metrics to SM for the agreed cut off time set for the application release/project.
•    Participate in project meetings to provide feedback and statistics of the project in relation to the test quality.

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
WRB Tech – Quality Engineering

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, or related field
•    Strong understanding of Banking Domain Application
•    Develop, execute, and maintain test cases for RESTful APIs.
•    Identify, log, and track defects, collaborating with developers to resolve issues.
•    Create test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test reports.
•    Work closely with developers, business analysts, and QA teams to enhance product quality.
•    Strong understanding of AI and machine learning concepts, particularly generative AI.
•    Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or similar.
•    Experience with AI testing tools and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras).
•    Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing tools (e.g., Jenkins, Selenium).
•    Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills.
•    Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
•    Creating test cases for scenarios on confusion matrix [True positive, True Negative, False Positive, False Negative].

Skills and Experience

•    Testing for AI Products
•    Cucumber, BDD
•    Java [or] Python
•    Azure DevOps
•    Test Planning / Test Design

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.