Paperboy Test Automation

Job Title: Paperboy Test Automation - SDET
Location: Chennai

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.

Introduction:
As part of the “International Settlements systems” improvements defined jointly with Upstream and several optimization and business changes to take on additional testing responsibilities. This is considered particularly important in the current phase of the transformations during which a number of new flows and functional changes will be going live. The “Way Forward” roles will be key to support the migrations / decommissions as well as ensure the Programme is able to successfully support to BAU. This role is for a Software developer in test to work within this “Way Forward” team.

What will you be doing?
- Create and own a test strategy, approach and plan.
- Create and maintain test automation packs for the Application/s
- Facilitate working groups with business stakeholders, IT teams and the Utility Vendor, to agree test coverage is agreed and executed.
- Test status reporting, providing visibility on status against milestones, and transparency of risks and issues.
- Facilitate defect reviews and ensure that severity and priority are agreed and communicated.
- Work with the process teams to ensure full product / process test coverage and ensure that the financials (i.e. netting, fails, repair volumes) are also considered / tested
- Engage with Bank-side downstream teams to ensure that the necessary testing is undertaken and there is no adverse impact downstream post migrations.
- Work with the Bank-side side teams to agree the Bank’s post implementation operating model and validate this during testing.
- Work with third party teams to identify defect solutions / workarounds.
- Assist with production readiness in terms of training.
- Communicate regularly in forums to ensure all parties are kept informed and participate in broader Programme sessions.
- Actively assess and manage risks; remove or reduce barriers towards realising goals, ensuring mitigating actions are in place.
- Create communication materials for the Programme and senior level stakeholders.

What we’re looking for:

- Engineering Degree (or equivalent) from a reputed university.
- Hands-on coding skills with Java, PL/SQL, Unix shell scripting, gherkins / Cucumber.
- Ability to develop and enhance test automation frameworks / familiar with one or more of the following frameworks: Junit, testNG, WinAppDriver or Selenium Web driver, Protractor, KARATE.
- Capable of providing automated solutions involving REST API, autosys jobs, automated test management reporting (JIRA x-ray), multi-threading.
- Data and keyword driven test automation.
- Strong leadership skills with highly developed problem management skills
- Confident, able to communicate and negotiate at all levels
- Able to multi-task, ability align self-goals with the organizational objectives and prioritize
- A proactive, self-starter, who can be relied upon to act on initiative
- Challenge status quo; ability to interpret business requirements into a tangible plan and spot inconsistencies
- Ability to manage diverse stakeholder requirements and demands, and successfully negotiate a goal that achieves the best outcome for the Bank
- Able to balance structure & best practice versus pragmatism
- Strong commercial awareness and thinking

Skills that will help you in the role:

- Strong knowledge of Securities Settlement and Asset Servicing
- Large scale multi-year system transformation programme experience
- Perl and python knowledge is added advantage.
- Working knowledge of tools like Ant, Maven, Jenkins, TeamCit