AVP, Chapter Lead, Test Engg

Job ID: 38337

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 28 Sept 2025

Job Summary

Strategy

• This requirement is for testing delivery and align the testing delivery process and controls.

Business

Test Delivery

• Identify and analyse issues in requirements, design specifications, application architecture as well as product documentation.
• Develop test specifications based on various requirement documents within schedule constraints.
• Develop test bed and/or test data and verify test environments (based on project requirements).
• Develop regression packs to ensure that requirements from previous scope are still functioning as before.
• Perform functional and technical test execution activities (automated testing, where applicable) as per project engagement.
• Perform non-functional test execution activities (performance testing, where applicable) as per project engagement.
• Identify and is familiar with negative testing, to be included in the developed test specifications.
• Constant communication and follow up with various stakeholders during test planning and execution phases.
• Report and update test status promptly and accurately.
• Enable project meetings to provide feedback and statistics of the project in relation to the test quality.
• Able to contribute to multiple projects, whilst still ensuring process compliance and deliverables are adhere to.
• Able to work independently as well as a team in providing out-of-the box solution if required.
• To collaborate/troubleshoot with the development and delivery team for technical issues that requires result analysis and feedback.

Key Responsibilities

Processes

Process and Compliance

• Good understanding and able to apply test processes laid down within the test team, and/or standards as defined by project and SCB.
• Ability to work in a highly compliant landscape and work within the boundaries of globally defined software quality management practices and policies
• Understand that traceability and reporting are extremely important in highly compliant environments and be prepared to engrain these practices in team's ways of working

People & Talent

• To manage the resources and make sure that everyone adheres the policy and process.

Risk Management

• To manage the resources and applications without any non-compliance

Governance

• To manage the process controls and governance the policy.

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.
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association

Other Responsibilities

• Understand requirement, prepare and execute tests and adhere to all test controls

• Good experience in Integration Testing, System Testing, API Testing.

• The senior automated test facilitator will work across several application team(s) to coach team members, embed processes and facilitate change.

• They will ensure that teams can validate the quality of the product delivered to the stakeholders as per group standards.

• Experience in FileNet Application Testing, API Automation preferred.

• Must have Technical skills

• Understand BDD and functional test automation
• Familiar with non-functional requirements of software development and have a grasp of 12 factor app methodology
• Have demonstrable programming knowledge in one OOP language, preferably Java
• Familiar with Performance Testing (e.g. volume testing) is a plus
• Full understanding of the SDCL, especially Agile methodologies
• Familiar with test management process
• ISTQB or Agile Test Certified
• Banking domain knowledge is a plus
• Some understanding of Big Data and warehousing technologies such as Hadoop, Kafka, Teradata would be nice to have
• Previous coaching or consultancy experience
• Understanding of continuous integration and deployment processes, or have the desire to learn

Qualifications

• EDUCATION: B E, MCA, COMPUTER SCIENCE
• TRAINING :TESTING AUTOMATION, BDD, CUCUMBER, SELENIUM.. ETC

Skills and Experience

• Selenium automation tool
• BDD cucumber
• Testing automation
• Java / J2EE
• Python
• SQL

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.