Job Description

Job Title :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\xe2\x80\x99re 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\xe2\x80\x99 and clients\xe2\x80\x99 needs. Whether you have family commitments or you\xe2\x80\x99re 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 and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs. Hybrid Working
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BUK & BX \xe2\x80\x93 All locations We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We\xe2\x80\x99re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances These requests will be reviewed and agreed for a period of time i.e., will have a start and end date.
Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager. Introduction:

• Have a thorough understanding of architecture, infrastructure, Impact assessment of the VPT request and scope identification
• Provide effort estimation based on Impact assessment.
• Prepare performance test strategy, Risk and mitigation of various stages and review performance test plans
• Conduct system performance testing to ensure system reliability, capacity and scalability.
• Reviewing the test scripts, workload model, test execution results summary and final test closure report
• Conduct defect triage meetings
• Analyse test results and coordinate with development teams for defect fixes.
• Identify/analyse root causes of performance issues and provide recommendations.
• Generate test summary reports for management review.
• Present the report to the business, solution architect and LSS team and secure the approvals
• Keep track of the new requirements/changes in the requirements of the Project
• Strong technical, analytical, debugging and problem solving skills
• Liase with stakeholders and various support groups and ensure smooth delivery

What will you be doing?

• Assessing the impact of changes on testing and provide feedback based on impact analysis
• Develop automated(CI/CD pipeline) test scenarios and environments for performance testing.
• Allocate work to team members and supervise the performance testers during the test script creation, workload model preparation, test execution and detailed results summary preparation.
• Proactively identify potential delivery related issues and devise mitigation plan.
• Timely escalations and communication of risks and issues
• Review the Test Environment Specification and Coordinates with the Test Environment Manager
• Analyze the CPU Utilization, memory usage, JVM heap memory, garbage collection, DB connections and DB queries
• Manage defect process and ensure that the process is followed and correct priorities / severities are assigned.
• Identify the bottlenecks using APM tools and provide suggestions/recommendations to resolve the issues
• Measure, monitor and capture required infrastructure & application performance metrics, logs and reports
• Measure results against business and technical requirements.
• Co-ordinate with different VPT teams for final E2E performance testing report and approvals for governance
• Ensure successful completion of different testing milestones.
• Prepare and update the metrics, test artifacts in confluence at the end of the test phase or project completion.
• Guide the team members on technical issues and conduct trainings
• Document all problems and issue resolutions.
• Collaborate with the relevant teams, to ensure high quality Performance testing.

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for: o 6+ years of hands-on experience in Performance Testing and engineering,
o Working experience in HP Load Runner, performance center with Web (Http/Html), Web services and other protocols.
o Working Experience in UI, API and Batch Application Performance testing.
o Strong knowledge of monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Wily Introscope, Ganglia.
o Working experience or hands-on on database like Oracle and Mongo DB.
o Experience in Network Monitoring parameters along with Cloud infrastructure & monitoring
o Should have understanding of Application Server, Web server and Database Server configuration
o Sound understanding of Java/JVM architecture, JVM tuning, GC, Class loading, Thread Dump Analysis, JMX based JVM monitoring.
o Good understanding of Oracle Architecture. SQL, PL/SQL, Performance Stats, SQL tuning, Tracing tools, Fragmentation, Partitions
o Analytical ability including root cause identification.
o Awareness of tools such as Fiddler, Wireshark, Insomnia, Jmeter, etc.
o Understanding of Cloud Technologies like Openshift, Aws Skills that will help you in the role:- o Understanding of Agile methodologies
o Batch monitoring and analysis.
o Batch performance testing experience.
o Strong Unix & Linux skills, ability to write shell scripts for information gathering.
o Good knowledge of monitoring tools like Oracle enterprise manager, SMF/Strobes, Informatica PowerCenter.
o Hands-on knowledge of different applications performance testing like API, Microservices, Batch, MQ, BigData, Database performance testing and tuning Where will you be working? Pune Be More at Barclays At Barclays, each day is about being more \xe2\x80\x93 as a professional, and as a person. \xe2\x80\x98Be More @ Barclays\xe2\x80\x99 represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It\xe2\x80\x99s 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.
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