Lead - Full-Stack Quality Engineering & AI (India/Malaysia)

Job Summary

This role could be based in India and Malaysia. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you select a country where the role is based

To lead and govern end-to-end test delivery and governance for the GCIO organisation as part of the strategic GDCW data centre migration programme. This role will play a critical leadership function in ensuring successful migration of applications to the new data centre (GDCE/GDCW), while maintaining high standards of quality, risk management, and business continuity.

The Testing Lead will be accountable for test strategy execution, delivery oversight, and governance across multiple domains, including Group Functions (GF), WRB, CIB, and other GCIO portfolios

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Define and drive the overall application-level testing strategy for GCIO under the GDCW programme, aligned to migration timelines and business priorities
• Establish a standardised, scalable testing approach across domains covering system, integration, business, performance and migration testing cycles.
• Embed AI-driven and automation-led testing strategy to improve quality, speed, and coverage
• Align testing objectives with programme outcomes - seamless migration, minimal disruption, and regulatory compliance

Business

• Ensure validation of critical business journeys, IBS applications, and customer-impacting flows during migration
• Partner with Business & Operations teams to confirm readiness and acceptance prior to cutover
• Support business continuity through effective pre-migration, dress rehearsal, and go-live validations
• Drive accountability for business signoffs and production readiness

Processes

• Establish and standardise end-to-end test lifecycle processes (planning, design, execution, defect management, sign-off)
• Govern execution of Migration Test Plans (MTP), test case management, and execution tracking in ADO
• Ensure structured execution of test phases - pre-prod testing, integration testing, business validation, and dress rehearsals.
• Continuously improve testing processes to enhance efficiency, traceability, and quality outcomes

Risk Management

• Identify, assess, and mitigate testing risks across applications, environments, and dependencies
• Ensure coverage of data migration, integration dependencies, resilience, and failover scenarios
• Proactively manage defects, blockers, and cross-domain risks impacting migration timelines
• Support programme objective of near-zero business disruption during cutover

Governance

• Establish strong test governance framework including reporting, auditability, and control mechanisms
• Lead defect triage forums, readiness reviews, and testing governance cadence (weekly dashboards, CXO reports)
• Provide transparent status reporting on test progress, risks, and readiness to GCIO and COO stakeholders
• Ensure adherence to programme milestones, release train schedules, and quality gates

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Ensure all testing activities comply with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and audit standards
• Maintain strong controls over data integrity, security validations, and operational readiness testing
• Support compliance with risk, governance, and control frameworks during DC migration
• Uphold organisation values of integrity, accountability, and responsible technology delivery
• 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

• COO Organisation
• GCIO Leadership
• GDCW Programme PMO / Command Centre
• Domain Technology Leads
• Business & Operations Stakeholders
• Risk, Audit & Compliance Functions

Skills and Experience

• Quality Engineering
• Program Management
• Test Strategy & Lifecycle Management
• Test Automation & AI-led Testing
• Test Environment & Data Management
• Risk & Governance
• Tooling & Platforms

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree In Information Technology or Computer Science

Certifications

• ISTQB

Languages

• English

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.