Senior Manager Testing

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.Role Description:Should be able to perform Test Automation and setting up frameworks on multiple application platforms WebCommunicate effectively and work collaboratively with project stakeholders, Interface teams and Performance Test team during planning, preparation & execution stage to ensure quality of deliveryManaging testing in a technically complex multi-supplier environmentDemonstrate team work and collaborative efforts always and create a healthy & vibrant work environment in the workplacePrepare and publish Demand & Supply of testing resources to application delivery team and ensure optimum use of testing resourcesEnsure 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 stakeholders in the Test Strategies and Test plansAll Test artefacts prepared by self and the team, meets the Testing standards & process requirementsDevelop skills set of the team on automation tools & utilities consistentlyAll projects testing to be delivered within the estimated cost & schedule and with quality outcomeManage day-to-day testing activities and provide timely resolution of the issues reported by the teamHighlight 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 phaseEnsure all the test results/evidences are available, defect logging and make sure the correctness of defect classification by the team as per the guideline documentEnsure 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 Program / Project Managers to minimize duplication of effortEnsure 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 metricsEnsure accurate and timely reporting & surface key issues / risk to ManagementDrive down the testing costs and cycles by ensuring adequate use of automation tools, as well as use of re-usable componentsEnsure that the test teams and other stakeholders are adequately involved during the entireTest project progress and ensure the support provided to other teams and transitions is of the highest qualityConduct Dev & Delivery connect, PSS connect, and Ops connect on a periodic basis and ensure to work collaboratively with themProvide inputs to management to enhance the quality of testing, testing efficiency, new testing approach, productivity improvement and thereby reduce the testing window/timelinesDeliver key technology enablers & Testing transformation initiatives as planned for the yearPerform 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 policyAdhere to the company s Compliance requirements & Policy standardsFollow the Organisation s QA process, Testing standards & controlsFacilitate 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.Essential Skills:Previous experience of managing personnel and test programmes within an agile environmentShould also able to set up, maintain, and operate test automation frameworks.Investigate customer problems referred by the technical support team.Create & manage bug reports and communicate with the team.Able to build different test scenarios and acceptance tests.Needs to handle technical communications with Partners to understand clients systems.Needs to work with deployments teams and resolving any level issues for the system.Knowledge of Core Java and other programming languages.Understanding of Object-Oriented DesignExperience of working AGILE + DevOps process management methodology.He/she should have hands on experience on various test method & corresponding tools like Selenium WebDriver, POM, BDD, Cucumber, TestNG, etc.Should have exposure to Behaviour Driven Development.Able to find bottlenecks and thresholds in existing code with the help of automation tools.Previous experience of managing personnel and test programmes within an agile environmentTechnical test experience, automation, performance etcHave worked as a Technical/Automation Test Manager for over 5 yearsProven experience of evaluating and implementing best practice standardsExperience of presenting test strategy and approach to stakeholders across the businessExperience of developing and managing e2e testing strategies against functional, performance andSecurity criteria, preferably in an agile environment, in both manual & automated scenariosExperience of continuous delivery approaches and technologySpecific Skills Domain Banking Specialisation Payments/Collections/MessagingTools: HP ALM, JIRA, MS ProjectKnowledge of Core Java and other programming languages.Understanding of Object-Oriented DesignExperience of working AGILE + DevOps process management methodology.He/she should have knowledge about various test method & corresponding tools like Selenium WebDriver, POM, BDD, Cucumber, TestNG etc.Should have experience / exposure to Behaviour Driven Development.Able to find bottlenecks and thresholds in existing code with the help of automation tools.Sound experience in using JIRA, ALM test management toolsExperience : 12 16 yearsQualification: BE/MCA/BSc/MSc/MS ITReporting to : Portfolio Test Manager / Head of TestingApply 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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