Test Lead

Job ID: 33701

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 5 Sept 2025

Job Summary

Strategy

• Knowledge in the payment processing platform with payment processing flows.
• Good Knowldege in Swift, Fin MT messages and MX messages.
• Knowledge of clearing platforms like, FED, CHP and US ACH
• Understanding of EU clearing platforms such as Target, SEPA, EBA etc.
• Understanding of UK FPS, BACS, CHAPS clearing.
• Understanding of Swift annual released and GPI mechanisms.
• Experience in implementing BDD using selenium Cucumber for test automation.
• Required Technical Skill:

o Core Java, Jenkins CI/CD, Maven, Selenium, Cucumber, RestAPI, JSON, GIT Hub.

o MAVEN, Git, Jenkins, Docker, ADO

• Good knowledge in Banking domain especially payments.
• Good knowledge in Testing and Agile Methodology
• Good knowledge in shell scripting & Unix commands
• creating Gherkin feature file in cucumber framework
• hands on experience on Xpath, CSS Expressions to identify dynamic objects
• Apache POI for reading and writing data from the Excel file for data driven concept.
• Should have knowledge in reading and writing JSON, XML, Txt,swift and excel.

Key Responsibilities

Business

• Ensure risks/issues are captured for all projects and ensure that any changes to milestone deliverables (scope, due date etc.,) have been approved by relevant PWG/PSC/PRC
• Mitigation of risks and resolution of issues in a timely manner including developing suitable controls and measuring their effectiveness
• Adopt DevOps in all the projects
• Create Test automation frameworks from scratch
• Automation testing with Cucumber for payments/clearing application
• Plan and execute activities in relation to Test Scripting, preparation and execution
• Communicate to stakeholders on the Test Status, risks and issue resolution.

Processes

• Mitigate risks to business through timely and precise execution of test cases in testing
• Work closely with Product owner, Scrum Master and Sprint Team
• Retest defects after fixes. Under moderate supervision execute tests to ensure that information systems and services meet group standards and end-user requirements
• Follow the test process and continuously improve the quality of the test process
• Identify issues in requirements, design specifications and product documentation
• Document software product defects and track it to closure
• Reverse engineer requirements and develop models as needed to support test automation
• Write accurate defect reports, facilitate problem resolution, and verify fixes
• Liaise with stakeholders to publish and announce status reports
• Ensure environment readiness and sanity check before start of UAT
• Conduct reviews / inspections of project and test deliverables and provide feedback
• Contribute to define & Document test procedures and policies.

Responsibilities

People & Talent

• Well versed with Java, Selenium, BDD framework, API testing, JSON format and Rest Services testing
• Perform functional and technical test execution activities as per testing team engagement level in the project.
• Perform testing in Agile methodology delivery.
• Plan, analyse, design, prepare in Sprint Automation scripts and execute within the Sprint

Risk Management

• Ensure all the SDF Templates followed on all the Test Deliverables.
• QA Review / TDA / Internal / External Audit controls should be maintained in central repository
• Document all the RAID details in the Test Strategy with appropriate Mitigation plan.

Governance

• Deliver projects within cost, schedule & quality
• Take a proactive approach save effort and improve efficiency
• Collaborate with the stakeholders to drive through initiatives
• Drive initiatives and impress on key stakeholders
• Ensure compliance to UTM and SDF models

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles

Qualifications

Education : BE/MCA/MSc

Certifications: CSM

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• ADO
• UFT, Selenium
• Java
• SQL
• Production Monitoring Tools

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.