Roles and Responsibility
• Understand business requirements and target quality delivery within stipulated timeline
• Work closely with other Project team members (Dev/Test/BA/Support/Product Owners)
• Identify risks and issues early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to stakeholders in a timely manner
• Prepare Test strategy document and Plan the Test Execution.
• Develop automation test scripts utilizing in-house automation tooling and ensuring high level of automation.
• Build scalable solutions to allow continuous delivery and testing approach
• Refine regression packs to remove duplication and streamline efficiency
• Facilitate high quality software deliveries by applying business and functional knowledge including testing standards, guidelines, and procedures.
• Detect, document and report bugs and errors encountered
• Prepare test closure reports for every release.
• List the challenges/improvements in Sprint Retrospective to address the same in the upcoming sprints.
• Effectively communicate daily and weekly test metrics.
• Good understanding of agile processes; participate in backlog grooming sessions and daily sprint meetings

Our Ideal Candidate
• 6+ years of experience in designing, developing and executing the functional & automated testing scripts for a large scale, high volume, low latency enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding in Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and related tooling like Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium.
• Strong understanding of programming concepts in Java.
• Good knowledge of QA standards, methodologies and processes
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, continuous integration and performance testing.
• Good understanding on basic Unix commands.
• Good understanding of Rest APIs.
• Must possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Candidate should have ability to learn new techniques and technologies quickly.
• Candidate should possess good analytical skills.
• Financial Markets knowledge is added advantage

Role Specific Technical Competencies
• MS office

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 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