Test Engineer

The Role Responsibilities

We are seeking an energetic, talented and motivated individual for the role of QA Manager on an ongoing Front office Green field project. The job entails testing of a Front Office trading application using the modern technology stack and integrating it with the CI/CD pipeline to enable continuous testing.
• Lead and own testing process & delivery for defined application stream.
• Develop automation test strategy, test scripts using inhouse automated testing tools
• Engage with stakeholders viz., Project Managers, Dev Managers, Test Assurance team, Support teams etc.
• Assess impact of changes, build functional test strategy and plan
• Build the functional test plan and strategy for a high volume and low latency application.
• Work closely with the application development and dev-ops to improve performance, scalability and resiliency of the system.
• Development of common tools and utilities in Java to capture more detailed metrics from the system logs.

Our Ideal Candidate

Primary Skills
• 8 plus years of experience in designing, developing and executing the functional & automated testing scripts for a large scale, high volume, low latency enterprise applications.
• Solid understanding of backend and front-end automated testing and related tooling stack
• Strong understanding of programming concepts in Java
• Strong understanding in Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and related tooling like Cucumber, Gherkin, Selenium
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines, continuous integration and performance testing
• Good understanding on basic Unix commands
• Good understanding of Rest APIs and WebSocket based communication.
• Must possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Knowledge of QA and testing standards, methodologies, tools and processes
• Candidate should have ability to learn new techniques and technologies quickly.
• Analytical Skill: Candidate should be posses' good analytical skills.

Secondary Skills
• Experience working with Banking Front Office applications.
• Good understanding of asynchronous messaging systems like kafka, solace, MQ or similar.
• Knowledge of QA and testing standards, methodologies, tools and processes
• Ability to succeed in high energy, dynamic environment.
• Self-driven, good communication skills

Role Specific Competencies
• Test Automation using Cucumber, Selenium and Java
• Rest API, Microservices
• Regulatory domain knowledge
• Testing standards, methodologies, tools and processes
• Asynchronous messaging systems like Kafka, solace, MQ or similar

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.
• 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.

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