Job Summary

• Oversees the execution of functional standards and QA best practices and provide technical assistance to the members squads and hive
• Responsible for the quality of the automation code repository where applicable.
• Drive technology strategy, technology stack selection, and implementation for a future ready technology platform, utilising architectural patterns such as microservices architecture, to achieve outcomes of highly scalable, robust, resilient, designed for failure, etc.
• Ensuring that the platform is designed and built on a stable and highly scalable infrastructure based on latest technologies and best practice, such as Cloud, DevOps, and Chaos Engineering.
• Determine the Test Strategy at the application level and is responsible in ensuring Test Strategy for every release is inline with app level test strategy

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using industry-standard tools and SCB genie framework.
• Collaborate with software developers, business analysts, and product owners to understand test requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Implement automated testing solutions for web, mobile, and desktop applications, including functional, regression, and performance testing.
• Execute automated test suites, analyze test results, and report defects to the development team.
• Integrate automated tests into the continuous integration and delivery pipeline to ensure rapid and reliable software releases.
• Monitor automated test execution and troubleshoot test failures to identify root causes and resolve issues.
• Maintain test automation frameworks and infrastructure, including version control, test data management, and test environment setup.
• Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and retrospective meetings to provide input on testability, quality, and automation opportunities.
• Stay updated on emerging technologies, tools, and best practices in test automation and quality assurance.

Strategy:

• Play a pivotal role in shaping the organization’s quality assurance strategy – automated testing practices will contribute to improving software quality, accelerating release cycles, and enhancing customer satisfaction.
• Thought leadership and evangelist on emerging technologies, evaluate new tools and techniques and implement best practices to enhance automation effectiveness and efficiency.
• Develop success metrics for the chapter – e.g. test coverage, defect detection rate, test execution time, and release frequency to track progress and evaluate the impact of automated testing on organizational goals.
• Empower the engineers within the subdomain with the right tools and practice to improve SDLC process efficiency - with focus on quality assurance, developer experiences, automation, and performance engineering, with speed, scalability, and stability in mind.

Skills and Experience

• Min 8 years of hands-on experience in test automation
• 6 years experience working in application for Mutual Funds as well as Mobile application
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript. 
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Appium, Cypress, or Robot Framework. 
• Strong understanding of software testing principles, methodologies, and best practices. 
• Responsible for balancing skills and capabilities across teams (squads) and hives in partnership with the Chief Product Owner & Hive Leadership, and in alignment with the fixed capacity model.
• Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation, simplification and innovative use of latest market trends.
• Trusted advisor to the business. Work hand in hand with the Business, taking product programs from investment decisions, into design, specification, and solution phases, all the way to operations on the ground and securing support services from other teams.
• Provide technical expertise for the Online Mutual Funds system to achieve goals and outcomes
• Support respective businesses in the commercialisation of capabilities, bid teams, monitoring of usage, improving client experience, and collecting defects for future improvements.
• Manage business partner expectations. Ensure delivery to business meeting time, cost and with high quality

Qualifications

Bachelor Degree in IT or related fields.

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.