Mgr, QA & Testing

Job Description

*The Role Responsibilities
• The successful candidate will play a leading role in the delivery of multiple highly visible strategic Credit Risk programmes with the primary responsibilities around Testing Manager activities.
• The Candidate should strong automation skilled person having depth knowledge in automation implementation for End to End scenarios across applications in Credit Risk space.
• The candidate will be a natural leader and mentor with a driven yet pragmatic, delivery focused mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective and innovative use of technology. The candidate will be expected to take ownership, responsibility and accountability for critical deliveries.
• The candidate will work closely with the other team members and senior stakeholders to design and implement critical strategic solutions whilst collaborating and engaging with Business Stakeholders to deliver to exact requirements. The candidate is expected to work in a dynamic global team with developers, project managers, business stakeholders and other technical experts across multiple locations.
Key Responsibilities
• Need to strong in People management.
• Contribute to the overall effectiveness of the department and projects.
• Play an active role in defining and improving the project and the application.
• Deployment automation and monitoring of the application.
• Providing appropriate solutions for the application based on the requirements.
• Enhancing the features of the application based on the requirements.
• Plan coordinate and support changes implementation activities in test environment.
• Good understanding of agile processes, participate in backlog grooming sessions and daily sprint meetings
• Support cross-functional teams in integration test efforts, support user acceptance testing and sign offs.
• Manage senior stakeholder expectations, articulate project challenges and progress. Coordinate and monitor testing progression and prepare reports and communicate results and progress with project stakeholders
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner
Diversity & Inclusion Standard Chartered is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging, and have the opportunity to maximize their personal potential.Our Ideal Candidate General Skills:
• A Bachelor s degree in a numerate subject (e.g. science or engineering degree).
• A motivated self-starter with ability to multitask but requires minimal supervision to meet challenging targets.
• Able to operate both independently and as a team player with collaborative attitude.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Maintain high productivity in a fast-paced environment showing effective prioritization skills.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Need to be hands-on in testing in the project allocated.
Technical Knowledge
• Excellent Java knowledge and experience in testing scalable, multi-threaded applications.
• Experience of Testing the microservice in Java & Spring boot applications
• Good knowledge of dev ops tools like Jenkins, GitHub, Artifactory.
• Good understanding of ELK stack.
• Understanding of Cloud based deployment strategies and tools like OpenShift, Kubernetes, public cloud.
• Knowledge and experience of working on streaming based solution like using Kafka.
• Experience with XML technologies (XML, XSLT, Web Services and JAXB)
• UNIX and Windows Testing experience.
• Understanding of SQL queries and database objects
• Knowledge about Performance Testing tools and concepts
Preferred Domain Knowledge
• Must have at least 12-15 years of hands-on experience working as Tester and 6 years of Automation testing.
• Should have proficient in the knowledge of Risk space or any Banking knowledge around Risk (Both UI and non-UI based application)
Other Preferred Skills
• Understanding of financial markets business front/middle/back office
• Proven exposure over a number of years of large project/programme involvement in financial markets.
Role Specific Competencies
• Manual Testing
• Selenium Automation testing
• Testing Process
• Testing leadership (people leader)
About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If youre looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we cant wait to see the talents you can bring us. Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, youll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:
• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
• In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role youve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
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