Program Test Manager

Job Description

*Strategy
• First line of supervision
• Ability to create test strategy and test schedule
• Strong in ETL and data migration activities
• Experience in SQL queries, Stored Procedures, Jobs creations
• Control M execution Job Management
• Knowledgeable to prepare estimates for large projects
• Guide team on testing approach
• Creative to resolve challenges during testing
• Ability to drive initiatives and impress on key stakeholders
• Courageous to take tough decisions in the interest of project
• Prepare Closure report and Quality Gate checklist
• Ensure compliance to UTM and SDF models
• Excellent understanding of Test Strategy, Test Traceability, Test Evidences, and Test Closure Report which form UTM (Unified Test Model) pillars under SCB s System Delivery Framework
• On a E2E test ownership role, collaborate with domain test manager to gain support and achieve project objectives
• Conflict resolutions within the team
• Create career path for the team and have succession planning
• Foster an open culture within the team
• Ability to provide tough feedbacks
• Sound knowledge on risk assessment and risk management
• Mentor and guide to the team
• Maintain right resource mix
• Perform periodic skill set evaluation of team
• Lead initiatives within the ITO space
• Manage test environment
• Promote equality within the team
Business
• Ensure risks/issues are captured for all projects and ensure that any changes to milestone deliverables (scope, due date etc.,) have been approved by relevant PWG/PSC/PRC
• Mitigation of risks and resolution of issues in a timely manner including developing suitable controls and measuring their effectiveness
• Adopt DevOps in all the projects
• Comply with QA review audit for all the BC4/5 applications
• Procure dispensation on valid cases
• Implement testing accountability and process consistently across all engagements
• Implement standard test reporting
• Planning and manage test environments.
• Create Test automation frameworks from scratch
• Drive Test Automation within the team and provide mentorship
• Prepare the Automation Test Strategy and roadmap for the area.
• Plan and execute activities in relation to Test Scripting, preparation and execution
• Communicate to stakeholders on the Test Status, risks and issue resolution
• Manage and coordinate Testing
Processes
• Ensuring no adversely rated test audit, no medium or high risks rated test issues from audit and No expired/overdue risks or actions from audits
• Unified/Standardized JIRA, test artefacts, status reports, completion report suite covering e2e test methodology by SDLC
• Thorough understanding of the system and data architecture of the underlying product
• Adoption of model across all domains with appropriate test methodology aligned to each project and evidence
• Mandatory e-Learning completion
• Enchanting block leave
• Data Leakage Prevention
• Adherence to Group Code of Conduct
• Marking Daily Time sheet with specific tasks
People and Talent
• Adherence to hygiene factors focused from the hub
• Investigating on My Voice feedback and improve team engagement.
• Reinforce leadership and increasing participation in Leadership & Hi-connect sessions.
• Ensure Billability for the team
• Ensure SOWs are in place and extensions and terminations of contracts are managed to avoid cost leakage
• Maintain the right permanent: vendor mix as per the bank s policy
Risk Management
• Ensure all the SDF Templates followed on all the Test Deliverables.
• QA Review / TDA / Internal / External Audit controls should be maintained in central repository
• Document all the RAID details in the Test Strategy with appropriate Mitigation plan.
Governance
• Deliver projects within cost, schedule & quality
• Take a proactive approach save effort and improve efficiency
• Collaborate with the stakeholders to drive through initiatives
• Ensure regression pack are executed for any changes to the system
• Ensure Performance Testing for the changes to the system
• Collaborate with other test managers to ensure all testing is completed before Go Live
• Create test strategy and Test Schedule
• Knowledgeable to prepare estimates for large projects
• Guide Leads and team on testing approach
• Creative to resolve challenges during testing
• Drive initiatives and impress on key stakeholders
• Take tough decisions in the interest of project
• Prepare Closure report and Quality Gate checklist
• Ensure compliance to UTM and SDF models
• Represent testing in PWG and other management meetings
Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• SQL, DB Concepts - Core
• Queries / Procedures / Jobs creation - Expert
• Table / DB Designs - Expert
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
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Keyskills :
test strategysql queriesautomationenvironmental impact assessmentdeliveryreportingcustomer relations