Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Strategy

• Candidate is aware and understands the Group\xe2\x80\x99s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.
• Adopt and understand the knowledge of functional and technical aspects of application
• Understands Requirements and architecture of the application
• Develop testing strategies to meet the testing mandate.
• Develop and document Programme test plan
• Author and maintain Test Management Plan documentation
• Documenting tests findings and results
• Provide QC and QA for of each project plans

Business

• Candidate is aware and understands the business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates

Processes

• SDLC process
• Test Delivery Model
• Test Governance
• Agile

People & Talent

• Testing Expertise and Continuous Improvement
• Provide expertise and recommendation to automate testing where possible
• Become an expert and implement bank\xe2\x80\x99s testing standards across the programme
• Experience in testing across multiyear programmes
• Identify cross project issues/audit observations and capture learning and best practices for future efforts
• Promote a culture of innovation
• Continuously seek opportunities for improvement within role, processes, team, and portfolio
• Keep up to date of industry project assurance methodologies and practices
• Anticipate future testing, automation needs of the programme based on the defined programme vision
• Effectively works with global on and offshore teams
• Ability to collaborate with different teams
• Present and effectively advocate for the Programme

Risk Management

• Candidate is aware and understands the main risks facing the Group and the role the individual plays in managing them

Governance

• End to End governance on the various test phases mandated by SCB\'s SDF standards and unified test model framework
• Understanding the regularity requirements for various regions
• Helps in all testing-related activities from test strategy phase, requirements gathering, test preparation and execution, test data as well as post implementation reviews
• Overall stakeholder management, regular meetings & reporting to project sponsor/s and project managers
• Supporting the Internal and external audits by providing the necessary test deliverables.
• Interaction with end-users and UAT lead counterparts, Production Support and other Technology partners
• Overall testing team management, resource forecasting, recruitment, on-boarding

Key stakeholders

• FCSO Business Teams
• FCSO Operations Team
• FCSO Technology
• Central Governance team

Our Ideal Candidate

• Good knowledge in both Manual and Automation testing
• Good in communication, Stakeholder management, team engagement.
• Familiar with Confluence, JIRA process and Testing methodologies
• Must have technical skills
• SQL
• Pyspark \xe2\x80\x93 (Python +Spark)
• ETL testing
• Shell scripting
• Must have: Automation skills
• Primary: Selenium, Cucumber/ BDD framework
• Experienced in DevOps tool stack and embedding automated tests in the CI/CD pipeline
• Good knowledge of API Testing using (REST / Soap UI / Postman / Swagger)
• Knowledge of Cloud technologies is a plus (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud)
• Designing and reviewing the test cases and scripts
• Reviewing the test execution results
• Reviewing the final test results
• Understanding of Test automation standard and test automation technology compliance
• Good knowledge of JIRA tool and be able to create Dashboard
• Take a proactive approach to save effort and improve efficiency
• Ensure effective utilisation of the test automation suite and meet planned ROI on a regular basis
• Knowledgeable to prepare estimates for large projects
• Deliver projects within cost, schedule & quality
• Creative to resolve technical challenges during execution
• Understand the business criticality of the application and ensure risks/issues are captured
• Implement standard test reporting
• Test evidence to be as per the regulatory compliances

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Java
• Genie Framework
• Cucumber
• Git
• VBS
• SQL
• DevOps
• Manual Testing
• Automation Testing
• Selenium

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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.

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