Job Summary

We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours: do the right thing, better together and never settle, as well as our brand promise: Here for good. We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture, one where everyone can realize their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organization. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base. The Financial Markets Technology function is responsible for the systems development and technology infrastructure which underpin the Bank’s services for Financial Markets clients. Within the Financial Markets infrastructure, SABRE (Standard Chartered Analytics Booking and Risk Engine) is the bank’s strategic platform for trade processing, valuation and market risk and has been entirely developed in house. 
The Financial Markets Risk Technology team is looking for vide Job Summary to give an overview of the role. It is primarily used when advertising the role internally and externally during hiring

Key Responsibilities

•    Plan and execute activities in relation to test scripting, execution, and reporting.
•    Support both manual and automation test activities within the team.
•    Coordination and collaboration with stake holders for monthly releases and new adjustments to sprint/delivery model.
•    Implement defect reporting and ensure the defects are resolved and tracked properly to closure.
•    Implement Test Automation scripts, code review, peer reviews and feedback team on improvements.
•    Experience in one or more scripting languages: Shell, Python, Perl etc
•    Strong Database and UNIX knowledge. Ability to understand table structure and write complex queries.
•    Prior Asset Control or other reference data will be an add on - Golden Source, Market Data Insights etc.
•    Prepare the Automation Test Strategy and roadmap for the area.
•    Proven experience with JUnit 4/5, TestNG frameworks
•    Experience in working with different Automation frameworks: Cucumber BDD, Keyword, data driven, Hybrid

Qualifications

•    6-10 years’ experience testing practices along with end-to-end delivery in the Financial Markets industry
•    Strong knowledge of derivatives across asset classes encompassing product knowledge, pricing, risk analytics and trade life cycle
•    Background in engineering is a big plus
•    Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
•    Quantitative finance understanding, ability to liaise with quants on pricing and risk topics
•    Proven ability to work across business streams and have exposure to front to back system implementation.
•    Knowledge and experience of Agile development practices
•    Ability to work proactively, independently and displays strong initiative.
•    Pragmatic team player with an attention to detail.
•    Ability to drive multiple agenda and effectively manage priorities.
•    Strong communication and presentation skills with an excellent standard of English are a must.
•    Multicultural awareness. 
•    Displays personal authority, integrity and ethics

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.