Senior Test Lead

Job Description

There is a digital revolution happening that is changing the future of banking - increasingly, Banking is Technology. Financial Services firms are becoming ever more defined by their technology and ability to use it to deliver outstanding customer experiences. Standard Chartered Information Technology & Operations (ITO) is looking for individuals interested in using innovative new products and modern technologies to deliver world class digital experiences for our clients and customers.The Retail, Private Banking and Wealth Management ITO is accelerating transformation of agile banking services with DevOps and Agile practices, with an aim towards efficiency, automation, and improved transparency Delivery Sprint Teams will be at the core of delivering this agenda. Delivery Sprint Teams will build and integrate components of the DevOps pipeline to deliver new banking capabilities, as well as refactoring of existing applications. Sprint teams will all be experienced programmers, operations people and product owners who can develop and drive their capability development end-to-end. Breadth across both programming and system operations is required of all candidates and depth must be demonstrated in their specialization; this is a cross-functional team with cross over between development and operations with business.Job Description We are seeking talented and motivated individuals for the role of Senior Test Lead. Successful candidates will be experienced analyst programmers/ tester who can develop user stories & acceptance criteria, develop & automate test cases, and significantly contribute to the break down, design, and development of solutions in an environment with constant collaborative discussions. They will be matured individuals who are comfortable working in an agile environment with critical peer reviews of design and code. They must be able to offer constructive critical reviews of other s designs and code. They will be able to research, trial, and recommend new technologies of interest to the group. They will have experience with taking code through testing, deployment, and production and will not have merely been handed code to test in a silo.Key Roles and Responsibilities
• Software development understanding or experience within a Java, Micro-services based software stack
• Promote adoption and rollout of Agile and modern software engineering practices;
• Work closely with Product Owner and Scrum teams during the Sprint
• Pair-program/ peer review code.
• Verification of user stories/ acceptance criteria & design of associated test cases.
• Automation of test cases within Sprint.
• Advocate delivery excellence, minimising delivery risk.
• Agile delivery of banking services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in agile development.
• Conduct continuous development and/or integration & testing.
• Able to adapt to changes in priorities and requirements.
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 : [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Other Responsibilities
• Strong analytical & problem solving and creative skills
• Good communication skills in both written and oral English
• Ability to be organised and multi-task on different requirements across various stakeholders, and to work independently and under pressure
Our Ideal Candidate
• 8+ years of software design and testing experience
• Prior experience working in an agile environment, with continuous integration & testing.
• Significant hands-on experience in Java, Cucumber, Ruby and any software test automation tools.
• Experienced in Behavioural Driven Design.
• Experience in delivering software in a regulated environment, ideally financial services based, to high quality.
• Strong knowledge of risk and regulatory delivery.
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Keyskills :
automationtest casestest executioncustomer relationsdeliverykeeping things simplesoftware engineering practicesuser storieshuman skills