Job Description

Job Title: Automation Tester 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 carer, 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.
Introduction:

• Work very closely with the test automation lead to deliver robust test harnesses to meet complex testing needs of various projects. E2E automation ownership of one project.
• Responsible for creating and maintaining automation test cases
• Execute the automated packs and provide consolidated feedback to the automation lead on a regular basis

What will you be doing? Relevant Experience 2 to 5 years. Note: The Internal Eligible Candidates must have completed 12 months in the existing Role. Time Split: 80% Project Delivery, 20% Non-Core Delivery.

• Lead and deliver as E2E lead 1 medium or couple of smaller automation projects with minimum supervision or own a Module in Mid / Large automation project with minimum supervision.
• Carry out initial screening of the Resume's for the Open Positions and also conduct initial round of interviews up to BA2.
• Handholding and mentoring BA2's, new SI team members.
• Responsible for Automation of key E2E business scenarios and for delivering scripts according to project timelines in line with the Automation Teams quality standards.
• Should have good understandin of Dev ops and agile.
• Responsible for creating Stubs to support end to end testing activities in Payments CIO.
• Execution of the existing ST and SIT regression packs and consolidated feedback to the automation lead on a regular basis.
• Proactively take up additional deliveries / tasks
• Help identify ways to increase the resource efficiency / productivity
• Help PTL in Team building, motivation, people oriented
• Help define processes and follow them within area of remit
• Accountable for the Test coverage
• Own the test estimates and the IA of the change
• Perform test execution at least 50% of the time during execution phase
• Own delivery and sign off of the Test Strategy, Test Plan, Approach and ensure the periodical updates are provided such as DSR, WSR, KPI.
• Own and drive the Payments Domain knowledge within the team
• Liaise and engage landscape teams for e2e tests and other support teams
• Very good at Stakeholder management
• Raising the RAIDs at appropriate level
• Work on Lessons Learnt after Project Closure
• Share the knowledge with wider teams
• Participate in the initiatives impacting Testing and at least Own 1 initiative which will help improve test delivery /innovative idea to reduce waste etc.
• Participate in the initiatives impacting wider teams
• Participate in the initiatives impacting Barclays PLC Participate in the initiatives impacting Community and Citizenship
• Must demonstrate Barclays Values by taking the ownership of the tasks assigned and also going beyond to achieve the objectives

What We're Looking For Mandatory:

• Hands on working knowledge of Java, Selenium, BDD(Cucumber) skills
• Hands on SQL skills
• Good Unix / Linux skills
• Exposure to middleware automation like REST API, WebSphere MQ

Skills that will help you in the role:
Technical expertise Nice to have:

• Experience with various messaging formats (XML, SWIFT, EDIFACT)
• Payments domain experience
• Experience of using Green Hat's GH Tester, CA LISA or Parasoft's SOATest
• VB, C
• Scripting languages such as Python or Jscript
• Exposure to SOA (service orientated architecture) testing using various transport protocols (HTTP, web services JMS, TIBCO Business Works, TIBCO Business Events, EMS, IBM MQ)
• Good understanding of Dev Ops (Tools: git, Jenkins)
• Extensive experience of testing large scale, complex integration Programs/Projects
• Technical testing background desirable

Mandatory:

• Experience of analysing project documentation to extract requirements, system functions and other features to be tested
• Experience of using test management tools (e.g. Jira, Agile Central) to manage testing activity and to provide testing metrics
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Flexible and pragmatic approach to changes on projects

Domain Experience:
Nice to have:

• Experience of the financial sector, specifically Payments CIO
• Understadiong of E2E corporate payments processing.

Educational / Professional Qualifications: Preferred

• Formal testing qualifications
• Any Degree, preferably in computer science
• Experience of the BFSI domain test automation.
• Experience of any Core Banking applications.

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. 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.
You must meet the following eligibility criteria: To apply, upload a copy of your updated resume on Taleo.