AVP - Risk Analytics Test Manager

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Perform architecture reviews, code reviews and test case reviews to ensure delivery quality.
•    Define effective automation strategy, coding & design guidelines for the team.
•    Manage team development, trainings and hiring needs for the project.

Business
•    Demonstrate a strong general knowledge of banking business systems and a deep understanding of financial markets flows from front to back-office systems.
•    Possess an understanding of Fixed Income/Rates/Bonds Pricing and trading.
•    Basic knowledge of financing risk, underwriting, forcasting, portfolio analytics and monitoring 
•    Understanding for futures and options (derivatives).

Processes
•    Understand the functional requirements, design, develop test cases.
•    Champion and implement testing automation at every possible opportunity.
•    Design, develop & maintain test automation frameworks using Java programming language.
•    Design and execute high-quality test cases based on accurate business requirements analysis.
•    Maintain a testing structure to facilitate future additions / amendments and ongoing execution.
•    Demonstrate effective and accurate test scheduling skills in line with other project deliverables.
•    Troubleshoot QA environments, diagnosing and resolving issues prior to formal testing.
•    Perform root cause analysis of issues to assist in determining the source of problems & mitigate the issues with effective solution.

People & Talent
•    Manage large teams and coordinate release testing and delivery. 
•    Resolve technical roadblocks for the team and mentor automation team members for continuous improvement.

Risk Management
•    Demonstrate high-level of risk awareness across various types of organizational & project related risks.
•    Minimize operational risks with the platform through robust quality assurance.

Governance
•    Accountable for strong QA governance.

Qualifications

•    Education-Bachelor’s degree or higher
•    LanguagesEnglish

Skills and Experience

•    Java
•    Selenium
•    Cucumber
•    REST API
•    Unix

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.