Senior QA Engineer

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Job Summary

Key Responsibilities of Role

• Responsible designing & developing test automation solutions and handling all aspects of the application testing
  
  

Role Responsibilities

• Perform functional and technical test execution activities by working closely with the application team to understand project requirements.
• Plan, analyze, design, develop, and execute test cases
• Identify test environment requirements and liaise (and coordinate) with staff in testing support.
• Facilitate problem resolution, and verify fixes received from application team.
• Assist the test manager/scrum master in managing day-to-day testing activities, such as test monitoring and status reporting in relation to non-functional testing.
• Assist the test manager in performing test estimation for small or tiny projects.
• Follow the test process and continuously improve the quality of the test process, along the project progress
• Ensure the quality and timeliness of delivery of testing assignments
• Report and update test status promptly and accurately.
• Work with business users in guiding and obtaining Non-functional requirement as well as obtaining the relevant sign off for the performance test deliverables.
• Able to implement test process within various project models and technology platform.
• Able to work as a team and be proactive in providing out-of-the box solution if required.
  
  

Idle Candidate

• Hands-on experience in Automation Testing using Selenium, Cucumber
• Experience in designing automation frameworks for UI, API and Middle-ware Testing
• Expertise in JAVA, SQL, BigData, Hadoop
• Good knowledge of GIT, BitBucket, Maven/Gradle/ANT, Jenkins/Bamboo
• Working knowledge of deploying code into CI/CD pipelines
• Minimum 10+ years of automation testing experience is preferably
• Familiar with Control-M/Batch jobs is a plus
  
  

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Develop our technical strategy and architecture using modern distributed application software, tools and techniques
• Design our technology applications holistically and continuously improve our technical efficiency and make changes as necessary
• Communicate technology strategy, architecture, and regular status reporting
  
  

Business

• Have a good understanding of financial market instruments
  
  

Processes

• Align to Standard Chartered delivery processes of software delivery framework and keep high standard for change management practice.
• Create process to reduce product time-to-market by embracing automation in the delivery lifecycle
  
  

People & Talent

• Provide technical guidance and direction, as well as hands-on resource management for all software development activities
• Coaching, mentoring, and developing our high performing engineers
• Play a leading role in interviewing and supporting hiring new engineers
• Leveraging the Engineering Career Path, develop members of the Liquidity Engineering team towards Distinguished Engineer and Enterprise Engineer status.
  
  

Risk Management

• Highlight emerging risks to planned delivery upfront to ensure sufficient measures can be taken
• Inform all stakeholders appropriately only risk / issues / challenges
  
  

Governance

• Establish good governance process in the team to ensure quality delivery.
• Ensure minimal release rollbacks, minimum post release production issues
  
  

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.
  
  

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or above

Skills And Experience

• Automation Testing using Selenium, Cucumber
• Java/Scala/Python
• SQL
• Unix Scripting
• Control-M Job
• Devops
  
  

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.