Senior Automation Engineer

Join us as a Senior Automation Engineer at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experiences. As a part of team of developers, you will deliver technology stack, using strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand the business requirements and deliver quality solutions. We are seeking a highly skilled and self-driven Test Consultant with an engineering mindset to help lead the transformation of our testing function—from manual test execution to strategic, automated, and scalable quality engineering. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on simplifying complex processes, automating everything, and enabling one-click deployments through robust CI/CD integration.

To be successful as a Senior Automation Engineer you should have experience with:    

• Strategic Consulting: Engage early in project lifecycles to define tailored testing strategies, identify risks, and embed quality from the start.

• Automation Leadership: Replace manual testing with automated solutions that are integrated into CI/CD pipelines, enabling one-click test execution and deployment.

• Technical Execution: Independently pick up and deliver tasks across a variety of tech stacks and cloud environments, adapting to the needs of each project.

• Containerization & DevOps: Design, build, and maintain containerized test environments using Docker or similar tools; contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Testing Expertise: Apply deep knowledge across all testing levels—unit, component, integration, regression, and end-to-end—to ensure comprehensive coverage.

• Enablement & Coaching: Empower development teams with testing best practices, reusable frameworks, and self-service capabilities.

• Innovation & Tooling: Research and implement modern testing tools, predictive analytics, and AI-driven testing approaches to continuously improve quality and speed.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Proven experience in test automation and CI/CD pipeline integration, with a focus on enabling one-click deployments

• Hands-on experience with containerization (e.g., Docker),Kubernetes, Python, shell scripting and working in cloud environments

• Solid understanding of software testing methodologies across all levels: unit, component, integration, regression, and end-to-end

• Prior experience as a software developer, with working knowledge of:

• Git/GitLab and version control workflows

• Agile methodologies and team collaboration practices

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Understanding of developer needs and how testing integrates into the development process

• Ability to simplify complex workflows and replace them with scalable, automated solutions

• Self-starter with the ability to independently execute tasks and switch between technologies as needed.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues. 

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.

• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.

• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.

• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.

• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.

• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.

• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes

• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.

• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.

• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.

• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.

• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.

• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.

• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.

• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.

• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.