Lead Engineer SDET
Standard Chartered · Banking & Financial Services
- Bangalore, India
- On-site
- Posted yesterday
- Software Engineering
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, escalate, 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.