Job Description

Job Title : AVP-Quality Engineer 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: The QA Automation team is responsible for signing off all releases to UAT (for user sign off) and ultimately Production. We have developed (and still continue to develop) a state-of-art business priority & automation platform which allows components, integration as well as full front-to-back testing. The role is for a Business Functional Test Engineer in the “Order Management System” team. You will be tasked with writing new business use cases as well as modifying/maintaining the existing test suite related to the Cash Equities business. You are required to work on big and complex projects with PMO/Product owner and validate business scenarios. The Cash EQ space encompasses the sales, trading side as well as Smart Order Router and all Algos provided to our clients (including dark pools) so needless to say that you will learn everything there is to know about a Cash Trading. . The role also includes liaising with the BA-PM and BTB teams in order to understand the business changes they are making so that the release scenarios can be changed accordingly; talking with QA stakeholders and numerous Test Engineer split in multiple locations.

• Experience leading the testing of large scale deliverables on Trading and High Touch business applications
• Leading of multi-task across Equities Front Office Sales and Trading applications releases/automation/ work streams/tasks
• Establish and maintain relationships with stakeholders
• To gather requirements, collect and provide feedback and test status on regular basis.
• Support of On going New/ BAU release effort across QA, UAT phases of new releases SUT (System Under Test)
• Help manage business priority use cases to ensuring support of test efforts and schedules.
• Collaborate with development teams on common approach of Continuous delivery model
• Deliver high quality work
• Develop and design complex projects end to end business scenarios

What will you be doing?

• Excellent communication skills in English (both spoken & written)
• Should be able to work in an agile environment
• Should be able to handle pressure situations
• Should be a team player

What we’re looking for:

• Sound knowledge of Equity & Derivatives markets– Options & Future
• Knowledge of Equities Trading workflow
• Clear understanding of Compliance & Regulatory flows
• Knowledge of Operation- Front, Middle and Back office business workflow.
• Develop test strategy and help with creation and execution of business use cases for applications, integration and flow within Equity trading platform
• Planning, developing, and executing tests against algorithmic trading and order management systems.

• Experience working in a fast paced Agile environment and managing QA deliverables
• Excellent knowledge in E2E test lifecycle (estimations, plan, strategy, scenarios, cases, execution, coordination, reporting)
• Be able to interact with global teams
• Experience in project management
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with others, self-starter
• Able to take on responsibility and work independently
• Fluent English – oral and written
• Results-oriented, self-starter with positive "can-do" attitude

Skills that will help you in the role Stakeholder Management and Leadership

• The role involves interacting with senior IT and business personnel at level.
• The candidate will be able to communicate with senior stakeholders to understand their requirements and manage their expectations of delivery.
• Key stakeholders must be kept aware of the processes and procedures require for work prioritization.

Decision-making and Problem Solving

• The candidate is expected to be able to propose solutions to complex problems that are in keeping with the existing system architecture.
• Analysis of requirements and the system under test.
• Creation of test cases and execution of those test cases with a heavy focus on automation.
• Solid understanding of Equity & Derivatives markets trading experience
• Proactive and comprehensive analysis of erroneous behaviour to assist in ascertaining the root cause of issues prior to recording in a defect tracking tool.

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.