Full Job Description
Location: Pune
About Barclays
Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.
Risk and Control Objective
Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.
Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a career, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.
If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager.
Identify defects in the application code and technical solution as early as possible in the life cycle.
To ensure the team delivers pixel perfect UI’s.
Create Test ware – estimates, scenarios, cases, data for both automated and manual tests covering functional and non-functional scenarios.
Execute Test and collate evidence.
Defect reporting and tracking.
Create and execute plan to increase the level of automated tests available.
What will you be doing?
Mentor junior testers within the team, including pairing with them.
Review business requirements to understand how system requirements fit within overall business solution. Challenge any requirements that are incomplete or do not provide sufficient clarity to support effective system development.
Review requirements to identify all areas of functional and non-functional (e.g. capacity, availability, response times, etc.) testing required.
Support business colleagues in defining detailed ‘testable’ requirements.
Champion transition to automated testing solutions to reduce software time-to-market.
Understand the technical solution and how layers of the architecture are connected to ensure appropriate testing is conducted at each layer from the UI to the persisted data.
Understand technical constraints of live environment / architecture, support business colleagues in understanding any ‘requirement versus cost’ trade-offs.
Conform to established good practice and any appropriate test automation standards as used for Multi-Channel Applications within Barclays UK.
Complete assignment work to budget, time and quality requirements. Document all work in accordance with agreed standards, and with re-use in mind
Collaborate with other application testers and software engineers across teams to build the technical solution.
Review test strategies to guarantee the quality of the delivered system, assist in the diagnosis of system problems encountered during testing.
Completion of Test Closure reports.
Identification of trends in defects and root cause analysis.
Analysis of manual tests and identifying best way to automate them.
Ensuring defects can be fixed by providing sufficient support to the developers in investigating and resolving the defects.
Showcasing new features developed in the applications to key stakeholder.
Managing test environments from deployment of software, configuration of applications and managing the resolution of environment issues.
Support the handover of the system into business-as-usual (BAU) operation, providing the relevant IT service teams with information and education relating to the system technology and function.
Assist in the resolution of live incidents and system problems as and when required.
Track work and report progress to team leader on a timely basis.
Identify own development needs and proactively drive development of own capability.
Learns new tools and technique to enable appropriate automation in the testing pyramid for example to prove unit tests are testing the code conditions
What we’re looking for:
End-to-end software development lifecycle.
Experience in at least one programming language preferably Java.
Experience of Test Driven and Behavior Driven Development.
Proven experience in Digital or Web Automation using different automation tools and frameworks.
Experience of the following:
Testing across multiple browsers
Automated test data creation
REST Client
SOAP UI
Browser Stack or similar
Cucumber
JQuery, JSON, XML
Selenium
Jira
Confluence
Bitbucket
Knowledge of automated testing, continuous integration and deployment tools and practices.
Strong level of experience of IT software development (essential).
Financial services, investment management/banking (preferred).
Broad knowledge of Barclays Group (beneficial).
Where will you be working?
Pune
Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.
Our Values
Purpose, Values and Mindset
We deploy finance responsibly to support people and businesses, acting with empathy and integrity, championing innovation and sustainability, for the common good and the long term.
Our values underpin everything we do: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship.
Respect
We harness the power of diversity and inclusion in our business, trust those we work with, and value everyone’s contribution.
Integrity
We operate with honesty, transparency and fairness in all we do.
Service
We act with empathy and humility, putting the people and businesses we serve at the centre of what we do.
Excellence
We champion innovation, and use our energy, expertise and resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.
Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.
Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.
Our Diversity
We aim to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to our vision and goals.
Our Benefits
Our customers are unique. The same goes for our colleagues. That’s why at Barclays we offer a range of benefits, allowing every colleague to choose the best options for their personal circumstances. These include a competitive salary and pension, health care and all the tools, technology and support to help you become the very best you can be. We are proud of our flexible working options for colleagues. If you have a need for flexibility, then please discuss this with us.