Lead Engineer - SDET

Standard Chartered India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Learning & development

Wellbeing support

Insurance benefits

Retirement savings

Job summary

Standard Chartered India is seeking an Architect to lead test automation across API, UI and data pipelines. You will build scalable frameworks and integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, driving quality from the start of development.

Collaborate with product owners and software engineers to design robust test plans, identify bottlenecks, and ensure high quality releases in a cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for API, Web UI, and Data pipelines.
• Write robust automation code in Python, Java, JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Automate end-to-end user journeys, contract testing, and integration tests across microservice architectures.

Responsibilities

• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) for regression on every PR.
• Containerize test environments and test suites using Docker for cloud-native pipelines.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, and QA to design comprehensive test plans early in the SDLC.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and security issues through non-functional testing.

Skills

API Testing

UI Testing

CI/CD

Databases/SQL

BDD

Microservices

Performance Testing

Kubernetes

Education

Engineer Degree in Computer Science/IT

Masters or MBA is good to have

Tools

Azure DevOps

Docker

Job description

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance test automation frameworks for API, Web UI, and Data pipelines.
• Automate end-to-end user journeys, contract testing, and integration tests across microservice architectures.
• Integrate automated test suites directly into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) for automated regression on every pull request.
• Containerize test environments and test suites using Docker for consistent execution in cloud-native pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

Automation Framework Development

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance test automation frameworks for API, Web UI, and Data pipelines.
• Write robust, clean, and maintainable automation code (using Python, Java, JavaScript or TypeScript).
• Automate end-to-end user journeys, contract testing, and integration tests across microservice architectures.

CI/CD & Pipeline Integration

• Integrate automated test suites directly into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) for automated regression on every pull request.
• Containerize test environments and test suites using Docker for consistent execution in cloud-native pipelines.

Quality Strategy & Shift-Left

• Collaborate with product owners, developers, and BAs to analyze requirements and design comprehensive test plans early in the SDLC.
• Conduct code reviews for developers and fellow QA engineers to ensure code quality and testability.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities early through non-functional test integration.

Test Execution, Observability & Reporting

• Maintain test execution dashboards, reporting actionable quality metrics (code coverage, defect leakage, test reliability) to engineering leadership.
• Debug test failures, isolate root causes in system logs or telemetry and partner with developers to resolve defects quickly.

Business

• Passion for client focussed and awareness of impact of each change for the business and operations
• Strong stakeholder interaction and management and excellent communication skills
• Contribute to the strategic goals of the organisation through the application of standard and latest technology (standardised enterprise grade tools, software, and frameworks).
• Enable the organisation to manage transformational business improvements through application of technical expertise and innovation in defining solutions
• Strong and effective stakeholder management and communication skills.

Processes

• Provide inputs, support and challenge process or operating model to constantly identify opportunities on simplification and delivery efficiency.
• Define standards to ensure that applications are designed with scale, resilience, and performance in mind.
• Enforce and streamline sound development practices and establish and maintain effective governance processes including training, advice, and support, to assure the platforms are developed, implemented, and maintained aligning with the Group’s standards

Risk Management

• Responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and mitigating risks for investment projects as well for new application build-out.
• Identify / address key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures.

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the Group Technology Policy, Standards and Enterprise Risk management framework
• Responsible for delivering ‘effective governance’; capability to challenge peers effectively; and Willingness to work with any local regulators in an open and cooperative manner.
• Work with program management office and 2nd line of defence teams to ensure portfolio governance are well managed.

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, escalation, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• FM Tech Management Team
• Product Owners
• SRE Leads
• External Application Team Leads
• Infra Leads

Other Responsibilities

Agile Technology Management

• Follow agile process on all development and delivery

Project Planning & Delivery Management

• Responsible for developing and coordinating with implementation teams, complex integration activities
• Use ADO /Confluence as collaboration tool

Skills And Experience

• API Testing (REST Assured, Postman, or Playwright API)
• UI Testing
• CI/CD & Version Control
• Databases/SQL
• BDD
• Architecture Understanding (MicroServices, Event Driven Systems)
• Performance and load testing
• Kubernetes and containerized test infrastructure

Qualifications

• Engineer Degree in Computer Science/Information Technology
• Masters or MBA is good to have

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.