Senior Test Manager

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.Job PurposeThe Service Now Engineering team requires a Senior Test manager to support the delivery of a number of technology work streams. This critical project role will incorporate a number of deliverables including system upgrades and migrations, risk and control implementations.The successful candidate will be an experienced Senior Test manager with a track record in delivering multiple concurrent, complex projects within an investment banking environment with significant exposure to Service Now. The successful candidate is expected to:

• Centrally manage, coordinate and oversee the execution of different test phases across all work streams in-scope of the testing and release cycle.
• Ensure a governance and control framework is in place for testing across all phases of the project.
• Plan and execute activities in relation to Test Preparation, Test Execution, Test Environment management as well as Post implementation reviews. This includes the formation of Test Strategy and a detailed plan for all the Test phases.
• Communicate to stakeholders on the Test Status, risks and issue resolution.
• Manage and coordinate Unit test and System Integration Testing (SIT)
• Ensure transition from SIT to the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) phase
• Align Test activities with the overall project plan and change agenda of the wider programme.
• Participate in and drive through Test requirements gathering.

The Role Responsibilities

• Define and execute Test strategies, including entry and exit criteria.
• Identify test data required to complete the test activities
• Develop a detailed schedule to monitor and track progress of test activities
• Ensure that all test phases are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Manage changes to the test scope, schedule and costs using appropriate verification techniques
• Management of the defect identification and correction process
• Successfully manage relationships with all stakeholders, vendors and third parties
• Report and escalate key risks and issues to management as needed
• Test Planning and Scheduling involving granular work breakdown structures with complex dependencies across multiple projects.
• Reporting on Test Status Report to all respective Stake holders
• Managed Test Environment for Various projects
• Effort Estimation and Resource Management across various projects
• Identifying Testing Risks and preparing Risk Mitigation Plans.
• Tracking and Reporting on Test Progress.
• UAT Test Management and coordination with users.
• Facilitator for creation of regression test script for automation and execution of regression test pack
• Ensure requirements are mapped correctly to test cases
• Oversee the performance testing and improvement of the latter
• Managing the knowledge base of projects handled for knowledge transfer and training.
• Implementing organization processes/policies and ensuring process compliance for projects.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Diverse experience in Software Testing Lifecycle adhering to globally accepted test methodology that includes User Acceptance Testing, System Testing and System Integration Testing of mission critical applications for clients.
• Diverse Expertise in Banking Domain.
• Diverse knowledge in Software Development life cycle & Software Testing life cycle.
• Strong communication, Interpersonal, Learning and organizing skills matched with the ability to manage stress, Time and People effectively
• Proven experience of working in the Financial Markets/global banking environment
• Proven experience in co-ordination of many dependencies and multiple demanding stakeholders in a complex, large-scale deployment environment
• Proven skills in co-ordination, staff management and leadership working with vendors and internal teams
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to manage a diverse and challenging stakeholder community
• Knowledge of Automation & Performance testing and associated tools like loadrunner is preferred.
• Experience of working in Agile projects
• Experience of working on Service Now as an application.

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 :
TestPreparation TestExecution testdata testcases lifecycle teststrategy systemtesting testexecution estEnvironmentmanagement UATTestManagement