Sr Automation Tester

Join us as a Sr Automation Tester at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to build and manage robust, scalable and secure infrastructure, ensuring seamless delivery of our digital solutions. 

To be successful as a Sr Automation Tester, you should have experience with:

1.Automation Engineering Excellence an

• Design and develop scalable automation frameworks (Selenium, BDD/TDD, Cucumber, API automation).
• API automation using Rest Assured, Postman, Karate, or similar tools.
• Strong programming proficiency in Java, Python, or similar languages.
• Build reusable automation assets and accelerate regression execution.
• Drive automation-first quality engineering practices.

CI/CD & Engineering Modernization

• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Promote shift-left testing and continuous quality practices.
• Improve test execution efficiency, reliability, and release confidence.

Drive adoption of modern engineering and AI-assisted testing capabilities

2. Technical Expertise

• Strong knowledge of:
  • Selenium and BDD frameworks
  • SQL/PL-SQL
  • API and integration testing
  • Unix/Linux
  • Jenkins, Git, DevOps tools
  • Test management tools such as Jira and Quality Center
• Ability to troubleshoot complex testing and environment issues.

3. Test Strategy & Delivery Leadership

• Define and own end-to-end test strategy, test plans, and quality approach.
• Lead SIT, ST, OAT, UAT support, and regression testing activities.
• Ensure quality outcomes across complex business and technology changes.
• Provide delivery governance, RAID management, and release readiness assessments.

4. Risk, Controls & Quality Governance

• Identify and mitigate testing risks early.
• Ensure audit readiness, traceability, and regulatory compliance.
• Drive defect prevention and root-cause analysis.
• Establish quality metrics and continuous improvement mechanisms.

5. Stakeholder & Program Management

• Manage engagements across Development, Business Analysis, Product, Operations, and Testing teams.
• Influence decision-making through data-driven quality insights.
• Effectively communicate risks, dependencies, and quality status to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate multiple global teams and vendors where required.

6.. Leadership & People Development

• Mentor engineers and build automation capability across teams.
• Conduct technical interviews and talent assessments.
• Promote high-performance engineering culture.
• Drive knowledge sharing and organizational capability growth.

7. Business & Domain Knowledge

For Payments/BFSI organizations, AVPs are expected to demonstrate:

• Strong payment domain expertise (SWIFT, ISO 20022, XML, payment processing).
• Understanding of end-to-end business flows and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective automation solutions.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

Engineering & Automation

• Performance and non-functional testing exposure (JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling).
• Service virtualization, stubs, and mock services development.
• Containerization and cloud-native testing (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Test data management and synthetic data generation.
• Familiarity with microservices architecture and event-driven systems.

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Jenkins pipeline development and CI/CD optimization.
• GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts.
• Exposure to Azure, AWS, or GCP testing environments.
• Monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
• Shift-left and shift-right testing practices.

AI & Modern Testing

• AI-assisted test case generation.
• GenAI tools for automation script creation and test optimization.
• Automated defect analysis and intelligent test selection.
• Model-based testing and predictive quality analytics.

Data & Technical Skills

• Advanced SQL tuning and database validation.
• Big Data testing concepts.
• ETL and data warehouse testing exposure.
• Kafka and messaging platform testing.
• Unix shell scripting and Python programming.

Leadership & Organizational Skills

• Delivery governance and portfolio oversight.
• Budget/resource planning.
• Vendor and offshore partner management.
• Coaching and developing automation engineers.
• Hiring, interviewing, and talent assessment.
• Driving organizational quality transformation initiatives.

Payments & Banking Domain Expertise

Particularly valuable in Payments organizations:

• ISO 20022 migration knowledge.
• SWIFT MT/MX message testing.
• SEPA, CHAPS, FPS, BACS, ACH, and cross-border payments.
• Regulatory and compliance testing.
• Operational resilience and controls awareness.

Professional Certifications

• ISTQB Advanced Test Manager / Test Automation Engineer.
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
• SAFe Agilist.
• Cloud Certifications (AWS/Azure).
• DevOps certifications.
• AI and Data Analytics certifications.

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.

The 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.