Job Description
Job Title: Controls Technology- Tester (Automation)
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
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're 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:
This role is for a Test Analyst who will work on to ensure the test suite is continuously expanded and improved, and quality is maintained as per the business requirement
What will you be doing?
• Review and analyse requirements to identify all areas of functional and non-functional (e.g. capacity, availability, response times, etc.) testing required
• Create and execute tests using Approved Automation/Functional/Performance Test tools as applicable aligning to overall test strategy defined
• Complete assignment work to budget, time and quality requirements. Document all work in accordance with agreed standards, and with re-use in mind
• Facilitate defect triage so that all appropriate teams including own team participate in speedy resolution and ensure the team shares knowledge gained/lessons learned to wider testing community
• Ensure adherence to testing governance and processes
• Provide accurate and timely status reports and project metrics to various levels of stakeholders and as agreed by the project and QA leadership team
• Escalate any issues to Test Lead as appropriate and in timely manner and provide options to resolve the issues for project's point of view
• Participate in requirement analysis, identifying risks and creation of test scenarios
• Always looking for opportunities to perform exploratory testing
• Actively keep up to date with the feature teams, spot inconsistencies, and potential conflicts in approach. Work to ensure full integration with a focus on the quality of the overall service.
What we're looking for:
• Strong knowledge on Test automation tools such as API test automation using REST Assured tool / Karate, Selenium, Cucumber using Java
• Extensive knowledge of Testing lifecycle and core testing process/techniques using different test approaches
• Excellent knowledge in testing skills (provide estimations, writing test scenarios, cases, executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs)
• Hands on knowledge of associated technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring-JMS, Spring-Data
• Strong understanding of BDD, Hands on experience in automation development and execution
• Awareness of CI/CD and DevOps - Jenkins
• Experience of using the Git source code control system
• Excellent communication skills [verbal and written] are essential. Ability to communicate clearly with the global team/stakeholders on the status and progress of allocated activities
• Strong analytical capabilities to understand the requirements
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Keen knowledge on testing concepts, processes, types and methods of testing
• Previous experience and exposure in automation scripting, management/testing and framework creation. (Selenium/Java) is a must.
• 4-6 years of experience in Software Testing / Automation testing
• Hands on experience of working in agile projects and knowledge of Test Management tools (e.g. JIRA)
• Graduate with software engineering background
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in testing of Web Based Applications.
• Experience of working on Investment banking applications.
• Domain/Testing/Technical certification will be an advantage
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.
#softwareengineering
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
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're 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:
This role is for a Test Analyst who will work on to ensure the test suite is continuously expanded and improved, and quality is maintained as per the business requirement
What will you be doing?
• Review and analyse requirements to identify all areas of functional and non-functional (e.g. capacity, availability, response times, etc.) testing required
• Create and execute tests using Approved Automation/Functional/Performance Test tools as applicable aligning to overall test strategy defined
• Complete assignment work to budget, time and quality requirements. Document all work in accordance with agreed standards, and with re-use in mind
• Facilitate defect triage so that all appropriate teams including own team participate in speedy resolution and ensure the team shares knowledge gained/lessons learned to wider testing community
• Ensure adherence to testing governance and processes
• Provide accurate and timely status reports and project metrics to various levels of stakeholders and as agreed by the project and QA leadership team
• Escalate any issues to Test Lead as appropriate and in timely manner and provide options to resolve the issues for project's point of view
• Participate in requirement analysis, identifying risks and creation of test scenarios
• Always looking for opportunities to perform exploratory testing
• Actively keep up to date with the feature teams, spot inconsistencies, and potential conflicts in approach. Work to ensure full integration with a focus on the quality of the overall service.
What we're looking for:
• Strong knowledge on Test automation tools such as API test automation using REST Assured tool / Karate, Selenium, Cucumber using Java
• Extensive knowledge of Testing lifecycle and core testing process/techniques using different test approaches
• Excellent knowledge in testing skills (provide estimations, writing test scenarios, cases, executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs)
• Hands on knowledge of associated technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring-JMS, Spring-Data
• Strong understanding of BDD, Hands on experience in automation development and execution
• Awareness of CI/CD and DevOps - Jenkins
• Experience of using the Git source code control system
• Excellent communication skills [verbal and written] are essential. Ability to communicate clearly with the global team/stakeholders on the status and progress of allocated activities
• Strong analytical capabilities to understand the requirements
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Keen knowledge on testing concepts, processes, types and methods of testing
• Previous experience and exposure in automation scripting, management/testing and framework creation. (Selenium/Java) is a must.
• 4-6 years of experience in Software Testing / Automation testing
• Hands on experience of working in agile projects and knowledge of Test Management tools (e.g. JIRA)
• Graduate with software engineering background
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience in testing of Web Based Applications.
• Experience of working on Investment banking applications.
• Domain/Testing/Technical certification will be an advantage
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.
#softwareengineering
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Controls Technology| Tester position is now open for candidates interested in the Bank Jobs sector. This role in Pune offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Bank Jobs is a plus.
