Uat Co-ordinator

**Job Title**: UAT Co-ordinator

**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.

**Introduction**:
**What will you be doing?**
- Work with Business and users to identify the UAT scope and stakeholders for releases based on Project parameters.
- Participate in and drive the UAT Kickoff calls to define UAT strategy, scope, participating team, scripts, engagement model, execution schedule, working practices and controls.
- Coordination with IT and business for end to end execution of trades in Equities EMEA business and managing the UAT releases with respect to schedule, priorities, issues, risks and mitigation plans.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Tracking the defects encountered during execution as well as those reported by users and follow-up to conclusion.
- Able to create Equity Trading Test data sets to be used during smoke testing as well as UAT cycles.
- Ensure the open issues / conditional signoffs are communicated appropriately and handled with logical conclusion.
- Defining UAT data requirements/models, securing appropriate end to end test environment connectivity, coordinating release management ahead of each test phase.
- Managing risks, dependencies and limitations of upcoming projects in order to deliver efficient and comprehensive UAT phase coverage sympathetically with project timelines.
- Obtaining formal sign-off of UAT test approach, scope and closure from all key project stakeholders and ensure traceability throughout the development cycle.
- Working actively and closely with the project team and key business users to improve the approach and execution of UAT, actively participate and promote process improvement initiatives
- Ownership of the UAT environments, maintaining the build version integrity and ensuring daily issues are managed and resolved in a prompt manner.

**What we’re looking for**:

- Readiness to work EMEA hours to be able to coordinate with EMEA and sometimes US stakeholders.
- Must have an extremely high attention to detail
- Must be able to multi-task efficiently
- Overall should be confident, enthusiastic and proactive.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders across Front Office and Business Functions.
- Must be able to communicate effectively with other project team members, including Technology, business and Compliance teams at all levels, gauging the level of technical knowledge of the audience in these communications
- Have an inquisitive nature; able to work independently to take a problem, break it down, recognise additional questions and find solutions.
- Highly organised, structured and result driven

**Skills that will help you in the role**:

- Bachelors Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering or Finance or equivalent with proven experience in Equities Business.
- In depth and extensive knowledge of front to back Equity flows and processes
- Proven ability to influence across multiple teams and regions to deliver solutions to complex problems
- Excellent communication and relationship skills and strong stakeholder management

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

- Technical background desirable
- Naturally curious and attracted to complicated problems

**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 te