Banking QA Avp

Job Title: Banking QA AVP
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

Hybrid Working

BUK & BX - All locations

Introduction:
This role is for a Test Automation specialist who will work in the Issuing Banking team to ensure the test suite is continuously expanded and improved, the successful applicant must embrace the Banking culture and look to automate.

What will you be doing?
- Ensure adherence to testing governance and processes
- Review 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
- 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.
- Lead and resolve technical issues from functional and technical perspective

What we’re looking for:

- Strong experience in QA - Manual and Automation (Min. 9+ Years of Hands on Exp.)
- Must have Strong skills in Object Oriented Analysis and Design Concepts, Core Java 7/8, Middle tier technologies e.g. JPA/hibernate, Spring, unit testing, mocking frameworks and caching concepts clarity.
- Hands on knowledge on Web services (SOAP, REST and Micro Services) with spring.
- Hands on knowledge of associated technologies such as Spring Boot, Spring-JMS, Spring-Data
- Strong knowledge on Selenium
- Strong understanding of BDD, Hands on experience in automation development and execution
- Strong knowledge of Java Programming
- 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)
- 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 with the global team is essential
- Strong analytical capability
- Knowledge on Test automation tools-, API test automation using REST Assured tool / Karate, selenium, cucumber using Java
- Be able to communicate clearly on the status and progress of allocated activities

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Knowledge of Scrum, Agile and Kanban
- API test automation
- Knowledge of AWS
- Strong knowledge in Automation Processes
- Knowledge in Performance testing tool
- Prior experience in preparing test metrics/reports.
- Degree in a technical, science, engineering, or mathematical discipline

Where will you be working?
Pune

Be More at Barclays
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