Barclays Looking for IT Quality Assurance UAT at Pune, Maharashtra Full Time

Job Title: IT Quality Assurance UAT

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 career, 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:
To develop and review test code, devise smart testing strategies to validate large-scale software development and deployments.

Pair/Partner with developers to embed quality into product development by reviewing unit and integration tests.

Develop and implement automation strategies for right ratio of unit, API and GUI tests

Creation/Automation of test data and test harnesses

Develop test harness, data generation tools, test mocks to support unit and API level testing

What will you be doing?

Support estimation of Quality engineering tasks for the assigned project.

Scope quality engineering engagements, including delivery effort, delivery timescales and external dependencies for test automation

Detailed design for test engineering solutions and verification of this with test team stakeholders and BTS architecture and design authorities

Test Planning and assisting developers in designing unit & integration tests

Create Test ware – estimates, scenarios, cases, data & tests.

Review & execute unit & integration tests.

Execute Tests and collate evidence.

Deliver all planned automated testing as part of ‘done’, including unit tests for any framework code developed

Integration: Services, Components, Integrations (medium tests)

System: User stories, End to End (large tests)

Ensure automation frameworks meet current requirements and coding standards and maintain new & existing automated tests

Create & maintain mocks/stubs/harnesses/fakes/virtual services for all testing

Participate in code & design reviews and assist developers in designing testable code

Collaborate with Test Engineer in supporting exploratory testing

Defect reporting and tracking.

Mentor and support junior team members and/or lead a small team of associate SETs.

Monitor team progress and Communicate with stakeholders on test engineering progress and maturity

Support and maintenance for test code and frameworks/test harnesses

Sharing of re-usable components to test engineering colleagues and other test teams

Deliver test automation improvement initiatives within the project group.

Conform to established best practices and any appropriate test automation standard

Sharing of re-usable components to test engineering colleagues and other test teams

Deliver test automation improvement initiatives within the project group.

Conform to established best practices and any appropriate test automation standards

What we’re looking for:
Requirement Analysis – work with the Test Lead/Test Manager on driving project requirement analysis and static testing

Create Test ware – create test cases, test scenarios and test data that would be required to complete test execution for the project.

Defects – defect reporting and ensuring that defects have the right amount of detail, are in the correct statuses/severity, escalated appropriately and tracked to closure.

Participate in test estimations for project

Create query log/ mind map/ flow charts

Escalate issues to TL/ TM as appropriate

Contribute towards creating Test Plan/ Test Strategy/ Schedule with TM

Participate in test planning with TM

Monitor team progress on test plan. Monitor daily tasks and report on them

Communicate with stakeholders on project status and metrics

Assist TM in operational tasks of managing a team

Experience in running a project through STLC with a team

Identify project risks and work towards mitigating them.

Escalate where appropriate to the LM or the PM

Provide guidance to other team members on technology/domain/application queries

Overall experience of 5-6 years.

5 years of experience in Card domain

Skills that will help you in the role:
Minimum of 6 years’ experience relevant work experience, including development and/or test automation experience with a degree in Computer Science or Applied Computer Science

Demonstrated expertise in Object Oriented Programming, and polyglot programming proficiencies in C#, Java, HTML, CSS (at least 2)

Strong technical background with detail driven and excellent problem solving abilities

Good product and testing acumen

Expertise in test automation (functional and unit/integration level – tools like junit, testng, nunit, webdriver, jmeter, soapui, selenium, ranorex, seetest, fitnesse, cucumber etc.)

Proven track record for agile, test-driven development, behavior driven development, continuous integration, and automated testing

Active contributor to open source tools towards Automation / Quality Engineering

Good at art of questioning and critical thinking

Aptitude to learn tools/apps/processes/domains

Ability to articulate thoughts spoken/written with global teams

Knowledge of testing terminologies, processes and tools

Participate in tasks at org level like training/social activities to promote BTS/Barclays culture

Should have excellent conflict management skills and generate trust and respect in team

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.