Job Description
The Role Responsibilities
Job Role
The role demands a good level of understanding Capital Regulatory reporting, Basel IV, etc.
This role has full accountability for all phase of testing.
The successful candidate will use previous Programme Test Management experience and knowledge of application / product and infrastructure testing to develop, implement, maintain, and improve overall programme test management strategy. They will also be responsible for providing QC and QA oversight to individual projects.
It will be a combination of Business Analysis Skills and Technical, Functional Testing skillset that provides an assurance to the completeness and accuracy of the infrastructure functionality to deliver results in compliance to the Regulations.
Experience in executing and supporting all test phases, knowledge of SQL, ETL, Automation Testing, JIRA / Confluence and ADO.
Some of the functional areas, the candidate should be having knowledge / skill on are
• Revisions to the Standardized Approaches for Credit Risk under Basel IV
• Capital Requirements for Bank's Equity Investment in Funds
• New Basel Framework for Large Exposures
• CVA Risk Capital Charge Framework
• The new Securitization Framework
• Operational Risk under Basel IV
• Capital Floors
Governance and People Management
• Lead and be accountable for timely completion of testing and sign-off leading to implementation
• End to End Test governance on the various test phases mandated by SCB's SDF standards and unified test model framework
• Understanding the regularity requirements for various regions
• Provides overall guidance in all testing-related activities from test strategy phase, requirements gathering, test preparation and execution, test data and environment management as well as post implementation reviews
• Work with delivery and project managers to ensure that all test phases are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget which includes test planning and scheduling across multiple projects and BAU deliveries
• Overall stakeholder management, regular meetings and reporting to project sponsor's and project managers
• Supporting the Internal and external audits by providing the necessary test deliverables.
• Interaction with end-users and UAT lead counterparts, Production Support and other Technology partners
• Overall testing team management, resource forecasting, recruitment, on-boarding
Programme Test Strategy and Execution
• Act as the owner of overall testing across all phases
• To define the overall test strategy, centrally coordinate with various business streams, technology, vendor and other stakeholders - and get agreement on the strategy from all stakeholders
• Prepare and own the detailed test plans to ensure the integrity of overall project schedule
• Adopt and understand the knowledge of functional and technical aspects of application
• Understands Requirements and architecture of the application
• Responsible for holistic functional testing, including regression testing on the overall operating model of Capital Infrastructure
• Develop and document Programme test plan
• Author and maintain Test Management Plan documentation
• Documenting tests findings and results
• Provide QC and QA for of each project plans
• Share experience with existing teams to improve testing policy and procedures.
• Perform systematic independent reviews and assurance reviews across the programme
Testing Expertise and Continuous Improvement
• Provide expertise and recommendation to automate testing where possible
• Become an expert and implement bank's testing standards across the programme
• To review test cases ensuring completeness of SIT coverage
• Coach, develop and manage testing teams
• Experience in testing across multiyear programmes
• Identify cross project issues / audit observations and capture learning and best practices for future efforts
• Promote a culture of innovation
• Continuously seek opportunities for improvement within role, processes, team, and portfolio
• Keep up to date of industry project assurance methodologies and practices
• Influence stakeholders to ensure successful management of programmes and projects
• Educate stakeholders to improve project and portfolio effectiveness
• Technology trend alignments
• Anticipate future testing, automation needs of the programme based on the defined programme vision
• Effectively works with global on and offshore teams
• Ability to collaborate with different teams
Stakeholder Management
• Bring in the testing best practices and to implement overall process improvements
• Ensure that all stakeholders are engaged in timely fashion and made aware of the overall testing strategy/process and ensure their participation in the testing phases in appropriate capacity
• Be accountable for ensuring that all test plans are agreed, required expectations are met and all signoffs obtained from the relevant stakeholders
• In case of complex and wide testing requirements, to plan and run the testing war-room with stakeholders - managing all aspects from scheduling to obtaining required sign-offs - with a tight day-to-day plan
• Socialise and agree the fix-release plans upfront with impacted stakeholders including regression and functional UAT plans
• Push the testing automation agenda with a view to improve the productivity and to cut-short the regression testing window
• Review the lessons learned from previous releases / phases and to ensure that follow up / corrective actions are taken on time to ensure the smooth execution of upcoming test phases
Strategy
• Building out Testing Strategies
Processes
• Good understanding and able to apply test processes laid down within Testing Framework, and/or standards as defined by project and SCB.
People and Talent
• Set appropriate tone and expectations from team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.
Risk Management
• Have ability to raise issues and Risk in testing with Team and stakeholders in time.
Governance
• Responsible for assessing effectiveness of Testing and provide effective Test governance.
Regulatory and 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• Project Teams, Testing teams, Development teams, Solution and Design teams, Business teams, Change team, Country users.
Our Ideal Candidate
• Bachelor's / Master's degree in Computer Engineering or related filed.
• Proven working experience in Test delivery or equivalent role with at least 12 - 15 years relevant experience in business facing Test-manager role in area of Banking and Finance.
• Excellent client facing and excellent communication (written and verbal) and stakeholder management skills with prior experience in running war-rooms or test-focused working groups.
• Experience in executing and supporting all test phases, knowledge of SQL, ETL, Defect tracking and issue closures.
• Strong knowledge on Capital domain. Experience in managing testing for Capital applications will be an advantage.
• Ability to write multi-application test strategies, test plans, and detailed test cases with expected outcome.
• Familiarity with SDLC and strong insights on various testing phases, methodology and tools.
• Agile Project Methodology - preferable with experience in automated regression testing.
• Experience with waterfall and agile, hybrid agile, DevOps methodologies.
• Experience in managing multi-cultural, diverse and virtual teams.
• Proactive, self-starter, autonomous and highly organised.
Good to Have
• Agile Certification
• ISTQB Software Testing Foundation
• Certified Software Tester (CSTE)
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Automation Testing (Shell scripting, Java, Python, Jenkins)
• Familiar with ETL process
• JIRA / Confluence / ADO
• Data Warehouse Testing
• Test Management
• SQLs
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've 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 you're 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 can't 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, you'll 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 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 you've 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.
Visit our careers website
Desired Skills and Experience
Looking for dynamic Senior Test Managers (based out of Chennai) with Capital Reporting / Regulatory Reporting experience, good ETL, DB skills with Technology background and with a positive and growth mindset
Job Role
The role demands a good level of understanding Capital Regulatory reporting, Basel IV, etc.
This role has full accountability for all phase of testing.
The successful candidate will use previous Programme Test Management experience and knowledge of application / product and infrastructure testing to develop, implement, maintain, and improve overall programme test management strategy. They will also be responsible for providing QC and QA oversight to individual projects.
It will be a combination of Business Analysis Skills and Technical, Functional Testing skillset that provides an assurance to the completeness and accuracy of the infrastructure functionality to deliver results in compliance to the Regulations.
Experience in executing and supporting all test phases, knowledge of SQL, ETL, Automation Testing, JIRA / Confluence and ADO.
Some of the functional areas, the candidate should be having knowledge / skill on are
• Revisions to the Standardized Approaches for Credit Risk under Basel IV
• Capital Requirements for Bank's Equity Investment in Funds
• New Basel Framework for Large Exposures
• CVA Risk Capital Charge Framework
• The new Securitization Framework
• Operational Risk under Basel IV
• Capital Floors
Governance and People Management
• Lead and be accountable for timely completion of testing and sign-off leading to implementation
• End to End Test governance on the various test phases mandated by SCB's SDF standards and unified test model framework
• Understanding the regularity requirements for various regions
• Provides overall guidance in all testing-related activities from test strategy phase, requirements gathering, test preparation and execution, test data and environment management as well as post implementation reviews
• Work with delivery and project managers to ensure that all test phases are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget which includes test planning and scheduling across multiple projects and BAU deliveries
• Overall stakeholder management, regular meetings and reporting to project sponsor's and project managers
• Supporting the Internal and external audits by providing the necessary test deliverables.
• Interaction with end-users and UAT lead counterparts, Production Support and other Technology partners
• Overall testing team management, resource forecasting, recruitment, on-boarding
Programme Test Strategy and Execution
• Act as the owner of overall testing across all phases
• To define the overall test strategy, centrally coordinate with various business streams, technology, vendor and other stakeholders - and get agreement on the strategy from all stakeholders
• Prepare and own the detailed test plans to ensure the integrity of overall project schedule
• Adopt and understand the knowledge of functional and technical aspects of application
• Understands Requirements and architecture of the application
• Responsible for holistic functional testing, including regression testing on the overall operating model of Capital Infrastructure
• Develop and document Programme test plan
• Author and maintain Test Management Plan documentation
• Documenting tests findings and results
• Provide QC and QA for of each project plans
• Share experience with existing teams to improve testing policy and procedures.
• Perform systematic independent reviews and assurance reviews across the programme
Testing Expertise and Continuous Improvement
• Provide expertise and recommendation to automate testing where possible
• Become an expert and implement bank's testing standards across the programme
• To review test cases ensuring completeness of SIT coverage
• Coach, develop and manage testing teams
• Experience in testing across multiyear programmes
• Identify cross project issues / audit observations and capture learning and best practices for future efforts
• Promote a culture of innovation
• Continuously seek opportunities for improvement within role, processes, team, and portfolio
• Keep up to date of industry project assurance methodologies and practices
• Influence stakeholders to ensure successful management of programmes and projects
• Educate stakeholders to improve project and portfolio effectiveness
• Technology trend alignments
• Anticipate future testing, automation needs of the programme based on the defined programme vision
• Effectively works with global on and offshore teams
• Ability to collaborate with different teams
Stakeholder Management
• Bring in the testing best practices and to implement overall process improvements
• Ensure that all stakeholders are engaged in timely fashion and made aware of the overall testing strategy/process and ensure their participation in the testing phases in appropriate capacity
• Be accountable for ensuring that all test plans are agreed, required expectations are met and all signoffs obtained from the relevant stakeholders
• In case of complex and wide testing requirements, to plan and run the testing war-room with stakeholders - managing all aspects from scheduling to obtaining required sign-offs - with a tight day-to-day plan
• Socialise and agree the fix-release plans upfront with impacted stakeholders including regression and functional UAT plans
• Push the testing automation agenda with a view to improve the productivity and to cut-short the regression testing window
• Review the lessons learned from previous releases / phases and to ensure that follow up / corrective actions are taken on time to ensure the smooth execution of upcoming test phases
Strategy
• Building out Testing Strategies
Processes
• Good understanding and able to apply test processes laid down within Testing Framework, and/or standards as defined by project and SCB.
People and Talent
• Set appropriate tone and expectations from team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.
Risk Management
• Have ability to raise issues and Risk in testing with Team and stakeholders in time.
Governance
• Responsible for assessing effectiveness of Testing and provide effective Test governance.
Regulatory and 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• Project Teams, Testing teams, Development teams, Solution and Design teams, Business teams, Change team, Country users.
Our Ideal Candidate
• Bachelor's / Master's degree in Computer Engineering or related filed.
• Proven working experience in Test delivery or equivalent role with at least 12 - 15 years relevant experience in business facing Test-manager role in area of Banking and Finance.
• Excellent client facing and excellent communication (written and verbal) and stakeholder management skills with prior experience in running war-rooms or test-focused working groups.
• Experience in executing and supporting all test phases, knowledge of SQL, ETL, Defect tracking and issue closures.
• Strong knowledge on Capital domain. Experience in managing testing for Capital applications will be an advantage.
• Ability to write multi-application test strategies, test plans, and detailed test cases with expected outcome.
• Familiarity with SDLC and strong insights on various testing phases, methodology and tools.
• Agile Project Methodology - preferable with experience in automated regression testing.
• Experience with waterfall and agile, hybrid agile, DevOps methodologies.
• Experience in managing multi-cultural, diverse and virtual teams.
• Proactive, self-starter, autonomous and highly organised.
Good to Have
• Agile Certification
• ISTQB Software Testing Foundation
• Certified Software Tester (CSTE)
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Automation Testing (Shell scripting, Java, Python, Jenkins)
• Familiar with ETL process
• JIRA / Confluence / ADO
• Data Warehouse Testing
• Test Management
• SQLs
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've 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 you're 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 can't 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, you'll 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 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 you've 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.
Visit our careers website
Desired Skills and Experience
Looking for dynamic Senior Test Managers (based out of Chennai) with Capital Reporting / Regulatory Reporting experience, good ETL, DB skills with Technology background and with a positive and growth mindset
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Test Manager position is now open for candidates interested in the Bank Jobs sector. This role in Chennai offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Bank Jobs is a plus.
