Senior Manager Testing & Quality Assurance

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 RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The core responsibility of this role is the QA and Test management of key change initiatives under CSS, with additional responsibilities supporting location management in Bangalore.
• As part of the Security Transformation, you will be joining a fast growing and dynamic global team that is currently embarking on a major transformation of its services and capabilities. In this role you will use your previous Test & QA experience and knowledge of proven practices, supporting tools to develop, implement, maintain and continuously enhance overall testing practice for assigned projects or programmes.
• Working closely with the Head of Security Technology Test & Quality Assurance, Project Managers, team members and stakeholders, you will get a broad exposure to the breadth of work underway within Security Domain, with the ability to use your skills to make significant enhancements to how assure adequate quality of our security solutions. The core responsibility of the role is to lead the definition, planning and delivering of core changes to ambitious deadlines, project managing and collaborating with a global team to ensure on time and effective delivery.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Governance and People Management
  • End to End accountability for all test phases mandated by SCBs System Delivery Framework and related testing standards
  • Ensures full compliance with both internal policies, frameworks, standards and external regulatory requirements applicable for various regions by providing all required testing deliverables in line with Bank s expected quality
  • Proactively engages with relevant project teams, stakeholders to deliver a robust test strategy and testing processes for the security domain
  • Provides overall guidance in all testing-related areas and activities covering all test phases (e.g. test strategy, requirements gathering, test preparation and execution, test data and environment management as well as post implementation reviews) and testing knowledge areas
  • Works closely with delivery and project managers to ensure the testing activities and deliverables are coherent with overall project documentation
  • Overall stakeholder management, regular meetings & reporting to project sponsor/s and project managers
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills as required to effectively cooperate with project teams and manage stakeholders in various areas of the Bank (end-users, production support, infrastructure delivery and operations) and external Vendors or Professional Service Providers
  • Manages testing resources per assigned domain, incl. forecasting and assignment, participating in recruitment and onboarding activities

• Programme Test Strategy and Execution
  • Thoroughly understands project scope, requirements, architecture, dependencies, functional and technical aspects of applications that are subject to testing and quality assurance
  • Creates and maintains test strategy, plans and other required documents that are both compliant with internal framework, standards and adequately reflect project constraints and complexities
  • Is responsible for the actual execution of predefined various types of tests ensuring that test cases are effectively assigned and carried through, bugs are dealt with by respective team members without unnecessary delay
  • Provides accurate and on-time status reporting to project/programme managers and head of testing & QA
  • Performs systematic independent reviews and assurance reviews across the programme and projects to drive continuous improvement
  • Addresses risks and problems associated with testing should they be identified throughout project delivery

• Testing Expertise
  • Provides expertise and recommendation to tailor testing practice to the specifics of the projects within domain
  • Becomes fluent with internal testing standards and other relates areas within solution delivery; is aware and tracks industry best practices and emerging new concepts
  • Boosts the efficiency of test execution by promoting and delivering automation as applicable for various types of tests (unit, integration, performance, user acceptance etc.)
  • Identifies and communicates cross project issues/ risks to project/programme manager to jointly ensure projects run smoothly and in a controlled environment
  • Promotes a culture of innovation and continuous improvement in terms of processes, tools and people

• Flexibility and Programme Ambiguity
  • Provide Leadership to Project Test Managers in a matrix environment
  • Anticipate future testing needs of the programme based on the defined programme vision
  • Effectively cooperates with both local and remote teams in a diverse cultural environment

OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• More than 5 years of Test management experience and overall 10 years of hands-on testing experience
• Experience working in complex, multicultural and geographically distributed companies
• Excellent testing and software delivery lifecycle frameworks knowledge together with solid understanding and experience of project management methodologies (e.g. waterfall, iterative, agile)
• Hands-on experience testing Security Tools & systems deployed in the cloud (or) on-premises with good knowledge in atleast 2 or more Security Domains such as, Application Security, PKI/ Cryptography, Malware Analysis, Security Incident Management, Network Security, Vulnerability Management, Security Monitoring, Data Security, Data Protection, Identity & Access Management etc.,
• Experience conducting quality audits
• Excellent communications and presentation skills with ability to adjust communication styles depending on type of target audience
• Excellent influential and negotiation skills
• Ability to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders including senior management Head of portfolio, project managers, test managers, testing staff

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 .,

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