Associate, QA

Requisition Number: 30031

Job Location: Chennai, IND

Work Type: Office Working

Employment Type: Permanent

Posting Start Date: 04/08/2025

Posting End Date:

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JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking talented and motivated individuals for the role of Agile Test Engineer. Successful candidates will be experienced programmers who can develop user stories, develop test cases, break down, design, and develop 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 must be able to collaboratively work with product owners to develop use stories and test cases. 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 handed off code to QA and Production Support

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Requires a sound knowledge on Software Development Life Cycle and Software Testing Life Cycle

Review product design documentation to ensure that requirements stated are correct, unambiguous and verifiable.

Collect inputs and define test strategy and planning (types of testing, project scope, detail explanation of particular release, risk, assumption, issues, dependencies etc)

Should possess strong knowledge in Java, Automated testing, API automation using rest assured/ API client, Gherkin/ Cucumber, Selenium, Appium, API testing, RDBMS and JMeter performance scripting, Ruby.

Embedded in scrum team, test continually the solution in order to detect bugs as soon as possible. Correctly report bugs as per procedure defined.

Advocate delivery excellence, minimising delivery risk.

Work closely with cross-functional teams in agile development.

Conduct continuous development and/or integration & testing.

Contributing towards product evolvement and knowledge management

Contributing to process improvement and ensure process compliance

Support continuous improvement process by putting in place proactively actions to reduce impact and risk on assigned project.

Ability to build effective working relationships.

Strategy

Awareness and understanding of the business strategy and model appropriate to the role

Business

Awareness and understanding of Retail business, the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates

Processes

Awareness and understanding of Agile s/w development process, change and release management process

People & Talent

Strong development and testing life cycle knowledge.

Strong sense of responsibility in managing the workload and deliverables

Skill to coordinate with clients and with respect to all testing teams.

Good project management and communication skills.

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

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

Qualification

Banking Domain Knowledge is preferable

Experience in the software development using Agile methodologies

Experience in software testing life cycle using Agile methodologies

Knowledge & Experience in practising Agile & Lean framework

Knowledge & Experience in the API & SQL

Knowledge in Java programming language

Knowledge in Selenium Automation / Cucumber / TestNg

Experience in preparing Test Plan and Automation Test Strategy for the applications. Test Automation script development experience for Web, Client's, Mobile, Mainframe etc

Knowledge in Performance Testing is an added advantage.

Advocate delivery excellence, minimising delivery risk.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams in agile development.

Conduct continuous development and/or integration & testing.

More than 7+ years' experience in software testing domain

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Automation Testing (Selenium / Cucumber / TestNg )

API Automation Testing (RestAssured/ APIClient )

API Testing

Database Technologies (SQL, NoSQL)

Integration Technologies

Agile Methodologies, Lean Framework

Web & Mobile app skills

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.