Automation, Test Lead

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

• There is a digital revolution happening that is changing the future of banking - increasingly, Banking is Technology. Financial Services firms are becoming ever more defined by their technology and ability to use it to deliver outstanding customer experiences. Standard Chartered Information Technology & Operations (ITO) is looking for individuals interested in using innovative new products and modern technologies to deliver world class digital experiences for our clients and customers.
• The Retail, Private Banking and Wealth Management ITO is accelerating transformation of agile banking services with DevOps and Agile practices, with an aim towards efficiency, automation, and improved transparency Delivery Sprint Teams will be at the core of delivering this agenda.
• Delivery Sprint Teams will build and integrate components of the DevOps pipeline to deliver new banking capabilities, as well as refactoring of existing applications. Sprint teams will all be experienced programmers, operations people and product owners who can develop and drive their capability development end-to-end. Breadth across both programming and system operations is required of all candidates and depth must be demonstrated in their specialization; this is a cross-functional team with cross over between development and operations with business.

Job Description

• We are seeking talented and motivated individuals for the role of Agile Test Engineer. Successful candidates will be experienced programmers who can develop user stories, develop test cases, break down, design, and develop solutions in an environment with constant collaborative discussions. They will be matured individuals who are comfortable working in an agile environment with critical peer reviews of design and code. They must be able to offer constructive critical reviews of other s designs and code. They must be able to collaboratively work with product owners to develop use stories and test cases. They will be able to research, trial, and recommend new technologies of interest to the group. They will have experience with taking code through testing, deployment, and production and will not have merely handed off code to QA and Production Support.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Automation test engineer should have a strong knowledge in Java, Automated testing, Ruby, Gherkin/ Cucumber, Selenium, API testing, Shell scripts , RDBMS and JMeter performance scripting.
• Nice to have Spring boot, Perfecto RESTFUL, RDBMS, API, Cloud.
• Advocate delivery excellence, minimising delivery risk.
• Agile development of banking services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in agile development.
• Conduct continuous development and/or integration & testing.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 7+ years of software testing which includes manual, automated and performance testing
• Prior experience working in an agile environment, continuous integration & testing.
• Strong knowledge in Cucumber, Ruby and any software test automation tools.
• Experience in delivering software in a regulated environment, ideally financial services based to high quality.
• Strong knowledge of risk and regulatory delivery.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and critical thinking.
• Strong communication and written skills, ability to communicate your ideas with others.
• Be flexible with changing priorities and multi-tasking.
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or relevant.

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 :
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