JOB SUMMARY

Standard Chartered is investing significantly in digital transformation to improve our productivity, client and employee experience and creating capacity to reinvest in incremental growth activities. The Pan-Bank ISO20022 Programme which addresses the new global standard for High Value (HVPS) and Cross Border Payments (CBPR+) messaging. A new common language is being implemented for low value domestic schemes globally issued by the International Standards Organisation “ISO”. The programme is focussed on upgrading existing message gateways, downstream systems and define the channel and preferred messaging format received through SWIFT transaction Management Platform in line with the “Society for Worldwide International Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) programme to adopt the ISO 20022 standards.
The role reports to the Programme Director Payments Transformation and will be Responsible to manage the Test Execution for the ISO20022 Pan-Bank Program for end-to-end Interface coordination across cash and non-cash platforms. This individual will ensure all the Test Controls are followed and drive testing completion with help of Engineering Teams, Country representatives, Business Teams, Client Service team, Site Reliability Engineering team and Operations Teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

E2ETesting Management

Provide overall program/project testing estimation for testing teams.
Confirm testing engagement (i.e., reserve testing resources)
Review and follow up the final version of the Functional Specification Document (FSD)
Attend Functional Specification Document workshop
Prepare Test Strategy (i.e., conduct workshop, gather inputs from the teams and other relevant stakeholders, draft the Test Strategy document)
Publish Test Strategy (i.e., including uploading into the Programme Document Repository (PDR))
Obtain Approvals for Test Strategy
Prepare Detailed Day Zero Checklist
Create Single Point of Contact (SPOC) details for all the TP systems

Azure DevOps (ADO) Project Creation coordination
Document the Testing Risk, Provide Risk Mitigation, Tracking till closure.
Closing of Testing Risk
Upload Test Artifacts into PDR/Confluence
Drive best test metric management practices across the testing phases.
Create detailed Dashboard for the Program updates.
Publish Test Status report covering end to end status to senior stakeholders.
Revisit & revise testing approach based on the change requests
Represent testing in Project meeting
To attend the Post Mortem/High Severity Production Discussion and to provide observation /feedback/lesson learn in testing related items
Incorporate testing related learnings in subsequent project/program
Getting Unit Testing Signoff
Getting Test Artifacts into Workwise
Getting System Testing Signoff
Getting Test Artifacts into Workwise
Collate Approved System Integration Testing (SIT) Test Cases & Signoff mails
Conduct Connectivity Testing
Verify Completion of Connectivity Testing

Verify Completion of Day 0 Checklist
SIT Kick-off Meeting
Plan Batch execution if applicable
Tracking Defects
Confirm Concurrence to the Exit Criteria
Conduct Closure Meeting
Obtain SIT Signoff from Test Team
Escalation During SIT (Raise Issues/ Risks)
Ensure User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Test Environment Readiness
UAT Checkpoints and defects Meeting Updates
Tracking Defects
Getting UAT Signoffs
Upload Test Artifacts into PDR site
Escalation During UAT
Test scripts development Readiness
Test data generation
Performance test coordination and facilitation
Performance Testing (PT) Risks identification
PT signoff and closure
PT artifacts archival
Work with Client Service Group, Client Implementations and CPO’s to define client testing strategy
Ensure client testing environment readiness
Overall Test Management of SAT/AVT Activities and Deliverables

Key Stakeholders

Programme Director Payments Transformation
Head of Cash Strategy & Delivery
Head of Product Development Cash
CIO’s for Cash, Trade, FM, DCS, WRB
Head of TB Transformation & Change Delivery
COO TB & NNM

Our Ideal Candidate

10+ years of experience in test management, ideally within the banking or financial sector.
Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence, and resilience
Personal authority, with proven ability to establish relationships and provide direction at senior management levels
Ability to collaborate and work dynamically across a broad range of stakeholders, functions, and borders
Strong people leadership skills with the ability to lead a cross-border, multi-functional team
Strong management qualities, interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity
Ability to manage geographically dispersed and highly varied client and stakeholder base
Interpersonal skills in networking, influencing and decision taking
Good presentation, time management, negotiation and influencing skills
Excellent written & oral communication skills
Can work independently to strict timeframes

Focused, organised and results-oriented
Experience of working with senior stakeholders. Ability to influence senior staff and offshore shared services teams and drive change agenda
Assertive, tenacious, and willing to challenge when required
Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Languages; Business Language
Certifications, ISTQB/C SQA/C SM/PMP or equivalents

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Programme Management (Agile & Classic)
Integration Patterns, Systems Integrations
Test Process & practices
Test Strategy
Defect Management
Risk Management
Automation tools (Selenium/Java/UFT)
Domain Specialisation (Payments/Collections/Messaging)

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.

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