Job Title: AVP - CCAR
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, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs

Hybrid Working

BUK & BX – All locations

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, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs

Introduction:

o EMF - Strategic is a multiyear programme that aim to increase efficiency by driving closer alignment in process and technology between key Model execution & outputs including business & process benefits. As part of 2021 and 2024 delivery we are looking to deliver critical and high materiality models across finance and risk onto strategic platform to support quicker, efficient process in preparation for future automation demands in regulatory reporting. Automation of Testing components plays a critical role to analyse, document automation processes and work closely with model owners, QA and technology to deliver the business benefits, Without having the right resource with expertise & the resource, it puts the agreed 2024 scope at risk due to challenging and demanding timelines and scope. The BOW has organically grown in 2021 & 2024
1. EMF & BCP/AWS
2. Sensitivity and Overlays UI automation: RRP will now have Sensitivity and overlays features so we need to enhance the existing Protractor and Selenium automation frame work . t
3. OCP Automation : Enhancement required in existing automation frame work to automate new feature Multi tab template Hand-in upload for OCP, this require quite amount of work as it is a complex template.
4. CCAR 9Q Controls Automation : These frame work needs continuous enhancements as new rules get added for every new area of controls support like RRP, BOE etc..
5. Treasury Capital Action: to support the enhanced framework featuresThe successful candidate will need to be an Functional and Automation testing professional with a good understanding of the Hadoop architecture.
o The role holder will be responsible for technical assessment of requirements received, test effort estimation, reviewing and enhancing test design and development standards, e nsuring optimal application performance to meet and exceed the non functional requirements specified by business and customers.
o The role holder should ensure that all automation and functional testing is delivered to the highest standards in order to ensure stability and consistency. The role holder should manage and mentor junior and middle level developers on best practices and work with applications developers and technical architects within the project and across wider group
o This role will work very closely with the Test Architect Owner , Development leads and Agile Team Lead (Scrum Master) to identify and determine strategies for implementation
o This role will Identify dependencies, changes in infrastructure and suggest improvements by working with Development Tech Leads, RTB and DevOps
o Collaborate with the Product Owners and Scrum Master in prioritizing the Sprint backlog and contributing to the Product backlog grooming
o Configuring Selenium\Protractor\Test harness Test Environment (STE) in order to set it up
o Creating and designing a Automation framework
o Implementing it as per the structure of the project
o Creating, enhancing, debugging, and running the test cases
o Collating and monitoring the defect management process
o Managing the changes and executing regression tests

What will you be doing?

o Technical Responsibilities:
o Analysis & Test Design:
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• Actively engage with Business Analysts and IT partners in the requirements analysis for system enhancements and changes.
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• Interpret and understand functional specifications
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• Designing the Development and Testing Strategy, Test Plan and Test cases
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• Working independently on all phases of development and testing
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• Actively manage the defect life cycle
o Identifying and creating the automation test cases
o Applying various designs and documenting the automation test strategy
o Creating an automation test plan and getting approval
o Support regression development and testing, impact assessment which shall be on demand basis

What we're looking for:

• Minimum 8 years of Software testing and Automation experience.

• Minimum 4 years of experience in oracle and writing queries

• Minimum 2 years of experience in Unix

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Testing Planning and scripting.

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Work experience as a Fullstack Developer with Java and Angular

• In-depth knowledge in Core Java, Spring framework (Spring Boot & Spring Batch), RESTful API Services and Angular

• Experience in writing test cases

• Experienced in writing Unix shell

• Good Knowledge in Relational databases and SQL

• Problem-solving abilities

• Eager to learn new technologies in Big Data Space (Hive, Impala, Spark Sql, Scala etc).

• Any cloud experience (AWS/Azure/Google/Oracle).

• Understanding of Big Data Technologies, Cloudera, Spark

• Hands on Java

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline implementation

• Very Good communication and organizational skills

• A strong team player

• Promote Automation, reusable components.

• Experience in Maven, Teamcity & GIT/ Bitbucket

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.

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