Senior Test Lead

This job is with Standard Chartered Bank, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Job Summary

• In charge of managing and delivering the end-to-end testing deliverables from local system integration to Group system integration involving multiple onshore and offshore systems across multiple departments / functions
• Responsible for preparing test strategies and test plan, managing, and tracking testing activities, reporting periodic testing progress and generating formal testing reports for internal and external reporting.
• Work in collaboration with Project Managers, End Users, Business Analysts and Testing Team to understand requirements and agree on acceptance criterion.
• Understand the system processing and data flow, coordinate with each component team on interface clarification to make sure timely and complete delivery.
• Detect, document and report bugs and errors encountered; escalate and provide resolutions to the identified issues in a timely manner and manage senior stakeholder expectations, articulate project challenges and progress.
• Ensure software solution meets business requirements.
• Good understanding of agile processes, participate in backlog grooming sessions and daily sprint meetings.
• Support cross-functional teams in integration test efforts, support user acceptance testing and sign offs.
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
  
  

Key Responsibilities

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Minimum 10+ years of professional experience in test automation domain in banking/insurance sector
• Strong understanding of software quality best practices and processes. Experience with a broad range of testing practices.
• Domain knowledge of front-office trading and risk management platforms for OTC Derivatives, Cash Equities. Deep understanding of trade lifecycle, trade booking models, regulatory requirements (EMIR, Dodd Frank, FRTB), product onboarding.
• Good functional understanding of Investment banking business and products.
• Minimum six years of programming experience in Java 7, 8.
• Extensive experience with test automation tools and frameworks - Cucumber for Java, Selenium, Apache JMeter, Soap UI
• Strong understanding of build automation tools - Maven 3, Gradle, experienced in setting up CICD pipelines in Jenkins.
• Knowledge of REST and SOAP based web services standards. Strong understanding of and experience with JSON, XML, HTTP.
• Experience with various messaging middleware technologies - Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, TIBCO EMS
• Strong experience in SQL, Unix scripting, Git
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex software development/design issues using clean, coherent code following established coding guidelines.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced and challenging environment.
  
  

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Testing technology
• Java programming
• Cucumber
• SQL
• Linux and shell script
  
  

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.