Associate Vice President

Job Description

*About Standard Chartered We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. Its about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good. Were committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.The Role ResponsibilitiesStrategy

• Communicate effectively and work collaboratively with project stakeholders, Interface teams and Performance Test team during planning, preparation & execution stage to ensure quality of delivery
• Demonstrate team work and collaborative efforts always and create a healthy & vibrant work environment in the work place
• Prepare and publish Demand & Supply of testing resources to application delivery team and ensure optimum use of testing resources
• Ensure Test strategizing & planning, budgeting, estimating, tracking and running the tests is as per the plans and within approved Budgets.
• Ensure tests cycles are run as per the Quality Processes, and under the Governance structure agreed with all stake-holders in the Test Strategies and Test plans
• All Test artefacts prepared by self and the team, meets the Testing standards & process requirements
• Develop skills set of the team on automation tools & utilities consistently
• All projects testing to be delivered within the estimated cost & schedule and with quality outcome
• Manage day-to-day testing activities and provide timely resolution of the issues reported by the team
• Highlight risks proactively to project stakeholders, work collaboratively with them to mitigate any project risks, to resolve any critical issues and try to bring the project on track during testing phase
• Ensure all the test results/evidences are available, defect logging and make sure the correctness of defect classification by the team as per the guideline document
• Ensure that test managers and teams work closely with the delivery functions and comply with testing, configuration and release management processes for the projects responsible.
• Work closely with Programme Managers to minimize duplication of effort
• Ensure the quality of the status reports such as DSR, WSR & MSR prepared by the team/self, and make sure the reports contain, concise & precise testing progress update, risks & issues and relevant testing metrics
• Ensure accurate and timely reporting & surface key issues / risk to Management
• Drive down the testing costs and cycles by ensuring adequate use of automation tools, as well as use of re-usable components
• Ensure that the test teams and other stakeholders are adequately involved during the entire test project progress and ensure the support provided to other teams and transitions is of the highest quality
• Conduct Dev & Delivery connect, PSS connect and Ops connect on a periodic basis and ensure to work collaboratively with them
• Provide inputs to management to enhance the quality of testing, testing efficiency, new testing approach, productivity improvement and thereby reduce the testing window/timelines
• Deliver key technology enablers & Testing transformation initiatives as planned for the year
• Perform resource capacity planning (ramp up /down, increasing strength of automation resources and Perm staff) on regular basis, based on the BOW, D&S and Organisation / Business function policy
• Adhere to the company s Compliance requirements & Policy standards
• Follow the Organisation s QA process, Testing standards & controls
• Facilitate regular (at least monthly) team discussions on risk awareness, operation and risk control improvements, lessons learnt from incidents and identify best practices to strengthen the team s operational risk awareness and knowledge.

Processes

• Ensuring no adversely rated test audit, no medium or high risks rated test issues from audit and No expired/overdue risks or actions from audits
• Unified/Standardized JIRA, test artefacts, status reports, completion report suite covering e2e test methodology by SDLC
• Thorough understanding of the system and data architecture of the underlying product
• Adoption of model across all domains with appropriate test methodology aligned to each project and evidence
• Mandatory e-Learning completion
• Enchanting block leave
• Data Leakage Prevention
• Adherence to Group Code of Conduct
• Marking Daily Time sheet with specific tasks

People and Talent

• Adherence to hygiene factors focused from the hub
• Investigating on My Voice feedback and improve team engagement.
• Reinforce leadership and increasing participation in Leadership & Hi-connect sessions.
• Ensure Billability for the team
• Ensure SOWs are in place and extensions and terminations of contracts are managed to avoid cost leakage
• Maintain the right permanent: vendor mix as per the bank s policy

Risk Management

• Ensure all the SDF Templates followed on all the Test Deliverables.
• QA Review / TDA / Internal / External Audit controls should be maintained in central repository
• Document all the RAID details in the Test Strategy with appropriate Mitigation plan.

Governance

• Deliver projects within cost, schedule & quality
• Take a proactive approach save effort and improve efficiency
• Collaborate with the stakeholders to drive through initiatives
• Drive initiatives and impress on key stakeholders
• Ensure compliance to UTM and SDF models

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: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Our Ideal Candidate

• BE/MCA/MSc

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions. To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working.,

Keyskills :
salesmarketingbusiness developmentmanagementaccountsenvironmental impact assessmentrisk controltest strategyexternal auditdefect loggingoperational riskautomation toolscapacity planning