Automation Test Engineer

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As an Automation Test Engineer you’ll be focused on some of the hardest, most interesting aspects of delivering high quality software to our customers and clients. In the role you’ll gain hands-on experience developing test automation for our trading platforms. You’ll be part of a truly global team helping drive innovation across Investment Bank Technology and our award winning trading platforms.

If you have strong Automated QA experience with Java, and want to make a big impact in a global organisation, Barclays is the place for you. We’re always developing - you should be too.

Your Role

Work closely with Project Leads and supervise global staff in the testing of various applications used to support the trading business globally, which includes:

Release timeline & management, prioritization of resources, automation and ultimate responsibility for delivery of bug free release

Responsible for testing across multiple business flows, regions and systems - Including Front, Middle and Back office

Work closely with Equities Technology peers, including Development Managers, Developer teams, Business Analysts and UAT QA team to ensure requirements and scope are clearly understood prior to release testing and automation development

Design and develop automation priority for application and front to back levels

Manage an automation team through Agile working methodology to create and assign tasks, hold sprint planning meetings, end of sprint demos and open for continuous Agile process improvement

Act as the central point of contact for High Touch release management, processes improvement, automation priority and resource allocation

Full ownership of QA, SIT test environments, timing of code upgrades/deployments and owning static data refreshes in-line with the support of overall testing efforts.

Essential Skills

Proven Automated QA experience with Java

Demonstrable experience of the following technologies is required:

Linux

Java

TestNG/Junit

Desirable Skills

Ability to write, execute and evaluate an automation book of work, reduce regression timeline and improve the testing coverage - at the system and front to back level

Prior experience executing/supporting Grey box, White box, and Back box testing

Prior experience testing/supporting trade capture and risk modelling

Experience in Investment Banking Testing and of Fix protocol with trading knowledge

About Us

Barclays is a transatlantic consumer, corporate and investment bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in our two home markets of the UK and the US. Our goal is to become the bank of choice by providing superior services to customers and clients and supporting our stakeholders via a commercially successful business that generates long-term sustainable returns.

About Barclays International Commercial Growth Initiative

The Barclays International Markets business is making a major technology investment and has mobilised the Commercial Growth Programme to drive an ambitious revenue growth plan focused on maintaining and building our trading capabilities. This initiative will see a major boost to Technology resource talent who will work on a wide range of leading edge technology programmes. We have identified over 600 roles to be hired across Pre-Trade Technology, Post Trade Technology and Risk, Finance and Treasury Technology globally, including key hubs in London, New York, Glasgow, Pune and Prague. We are hiring creative and driven Technologists, from a wide range of industry sectors that have exposure to high availability and high transactional online systems. There has never been a more exciting time to join Barclays International.