Senior Test Engineer

Join us as a Senior Test Engineer at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You will harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionize our digital offerings, ensuring unparalleled customer experience. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our applications. With a strong background in Test automation, you will drive the testing strategy, mentor the testing team, and ensure the delivery of high-quality software. To be successful as a Senior Test Engineer, you should possess experience in software testing with expertise in designing, developing, and implementing robust test automation frameworks for both front end (e.g. React.js) and back end applications (e.g. Java Spring Boot), ensuring high quality and maintainable test solutions. You should have proficiency in automation tools like Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, or RestAssured, experience with API testing and integration testing using tools like Postman or Rest Assured, strong programming skills in Java and JavaScript for writing automated test scripts, ability to define and implement testing strategies and best practices, and leading a team of test automation engineers. Proven experience in testing applications in the Financial Crime (e.g., AML, Fraud Detection) or Wholesale Banking domain is highly desirable. Some other highly valued skills may include experience in testing workflows orchestration by Camunda BPM including BPM 2.0 process models, task assignments, and process state transitions, exposure to testing event-driven systems using Kafka or other message brokers, experience writing SQL queries to validate data integrity and accuracy, and experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins or GitLab CI. You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technology, along with job-specific technical skills. The role is based out of Pune. Purpose of the role: To design, develop, and execute testing strategies to validate functionality, performance, and user experience, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects, and continuously improve testing processes and methodologies, to ensure software quality and reliability. Accountabilities: - Development and implementation of comprehensive test plans and strategies to validate software functionality and ensure compliance with established quality standards. - Creation and execution automated test scripts, leveraging testing frameworks and tools to facilitate early detection of defects and quality issues. - Collaboration with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements, participate in design discussions, and contribute to the development of acceptance criteria, ensuring a thorough understanding of the software being tested. - Root cause analysis for identified defects, working closely with developers to provide detailed information and support defect resolution. - 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. 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 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 behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. 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.,