Senior Test Engineer

Job Title: Senior Test Engineer
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
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do.

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, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs

Hybrid Working

Structured hybrid role:    
At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home.  We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

Introduction:

This role is a hands-on test engineering role within the Permissions platform team.  The Senior Test Engineer is a high-performing engineer who designs, builds and executes comprehensive and robust tests to support a centralised, secure, scalable and efficient platform to enable permissions, personas and profiles as new capabilities across the bank’s digital landscape. The Platform realises business benefits through simplification and enablement of revenue generation through building new capabilities to embed across all digital journeys

What will you be doing?

•    Collaborate in the design, build and execution of a tests to validate the security, scalability and efficiency of the Permissions platform.
•    Apply automation and modern test methods across the engineering lifecycle to increase coverage and quality and reduce manual effort  
•    Coach, collaborate and facilitate colleagues and engineers to apply tests across the platform, following agile software development principles.
•    Ensure the highest levels of platform security and compliance.
•    Optimise platform performance and efficiency.
•    Provide feedback and action activities to mature and improve operations and processes within the team and more broadly across the function. 

What we’re looking for:

•    Hands-on tester engineering team member, who contributes to fostering collaboration and demonstrating excellence through delivery.
•    Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate with people from both technical and non-technical backgrounds and with people across the organisation.
•    Understanding and interest in IAM technologies, capabilities and platform engineering principles.
•    Attention to detail and rigour in testing to create, record and replicate issues that may affect the stability or performance of the IAM platform
•    A passion for learning and obtaining new knowledge and sharing with colleagues

•    Hands-on experience in creating, managing and executing automated test routines and scripts
•    Experience of testing across the full development, implementation and operational lifecycle with appropriate corresponding methodologies e.g. TDD, BDD, SBE, ATDD
•    Testing across UI, API and Data Integrations layer and connectors
•    Demonstrable experience and knowledge in fault finding, root cause analysis, and participation in remediation implementation 
•    Creation and management of synthetic testing data

Skills that will help you in the role:

•    Experience with Continuous Integration tools and source code repositories.
•    Test tooling: Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Karate, BrowserStack, JUnit, Jmeter, Gremlin, Moquito
•    Test type coverage: Stress, load, spike, soak, volume, breakpoint, capacity
•    Experience with securing testing tools and Penetration testng - Nessus

Where will you be working?
Pune



Be More at Barclays
At Barclays, each day is about being more – as a professional, and as a person. ‘Be More @ Barclays’ represents our core promise to all current and future employees. It’s the characteristic that we want to be associated with as an employer, and at the heart of every employee experience. We empower our colleagues to Be More Globally Connected, working on international projects that improve the way millions of customers handle their finances. Be More Inspired by working alongside the most talented people in the industry, and delivering imaginative new solutions that are redefining the future of finance. Be More Impactful by having the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, and Be More Valued for who you are.
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 resources to make a positive difference.
Stewardship
We prize sustainability, and are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

Our Mindset shapes how we take action, living by our Values, driven by our Purpose, always with our customers and clients at the heart of what we do; our Mindset is to Empower, Challenge and Drive.

Empower
Trust and support each other to deliver. Make decisions with those closest to the topic. Include diverse perspectives. Celebrate success and learn from failure.
Challenge
Question whether things can be done better. Use insights based on data to inform decisions. Be curious about how we can adapt and improve. Speak up and be open to alternative viewpoints.
Drive
Focus on outcomes. Deliver with pace. Be passionate and ambitious about what we do. Take personal responsibility. Actively build collaborative relationships to get things done.