Senior Test Automation Engineer

Job Summary

• The Senior Test Automation Engineer will sit in the Technology Strategy & Architecture Team. This role involves developing and implementing automated testing solutions and providing end-to-end testing services for initiatives within the bank. The focus will be on aligning these solutions with the overall technology roadmap to ensure the robustness and scalability of software systems.

Responsibilities
Strategy

• Understand the Bank's DevOps strategy and implementing automation solutions to improve the bank's software delivery pipeline.

Business

• This role requires broad engagement with application delivery teams across the bank, helping them adopt DevOps pipeline solutions to improve delivery efficiency and maturity.

Processes

• Understand the bank's software delivery processes and implement solutions in line with the bank's compliance and security requirement.

People & Talent

• Work collaboratively with a team of diverse engineers in sprint delivery.
• Produce technical documentation and prepare training materials on the solutions being delivered and provide technical support.
• Conduct briefing and/or training sessions to application delivery teams to help them get onboarded and accelerate adoption.

Risk Management

• Understand bank's risk management framework and embed that into the technology solution being delivered.

Governance

• Understand bank's software delivery & quality assurance framework and assist in solutioning in respective governance activity.

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Head, Engineering Excellence & DevOps
• Delivery Leads

Qualifications

• We are seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer with 8 plus years of experience to join the Central Engineering Excellence and DevOps team. The candidate should have a passion for quality delivery, agile and automation in all its dimensions and possess a solid track record of software delivery, solution design and stakeholder management. The candidate would have a strong knowledge of DevOps and Agile delivery practices, as well as a disciplined approach to planning, execution, and reporting.

Our Ideal Candidate Should Possess The Following

• Eagerness to learn – curious, self-learning, then applying
• Problem Solving Skills – Creativity, resourcefulness, lateral thinking
• Engineering mindset – maintainability, testability, usability, performance etc.
• Communication Skills – explain, influence, listen, document thinking
• 8 plus years of experience working as a senior software engineer/senior automation engineer.
• Extensive experience implementing automated testing solutions with frameworks such as Cucumber, Selenium/Appium and WireMock.
• Hands-on experience in Java or an alternative language such as .NET. Proficient in additional languages such as .NET, JavaScript, C/C++, Python will be a strong plus.
• Proven expertise in BDD and ability to write and maintain feature files mapped to business requirements.
• Ability to design and implement efficient, maintainable, elegant code. Clean code practitioner will be a plus.
• Experience in DevOps with exposure to CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Ansible is desirable.
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS EC2 as well as container platform such as Docker and Kubernetes is desirable.
• An in-depth understanding of data concepts, and data structures will be a plus.
• Strong SQL skills for database validation, data integrity checks, and comparison testing will be a plus.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Extensive experience implementing automated testing solutions with frameworks such as Cucumber, Selenium/Appium and WireMock
• Hands-on experience in Java or an alternative language such as .NET. Proficient in additional languages such as .NET, JavaScript, C/C++, Python will be a strong plus.
• Ability to design and implement efficient, maintainable, elegant code.
• Experience in DevOps with exposure to CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Ansible
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS EC2 as well as container platform such as Docker and Kubernetes

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer
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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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.