Barclays

Test Architect-VP

Barclays
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2 months ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement comprehensive software test plans and strategies covering functionality, performance, user experience, and quality standards.
  • Create and execute automated test scripts using testing frameworks and tools to detect defects early.
  • Drive test strategy, environment strategy, automation, and testing-efficiency targets for the Quality Engineering practice.
  • Collaborate with product, design, development, and other cross-functional teams on requirements, design discussions, acceptance criteria, code reviews, and defect resolution.
  • Perform root-cause analysis and provide developers with detailed information to support defect remediation.
  • Support and maintain non-production environments with distributed systems and highly available services.
  • Contribute to test governance, policies, processes, continuous improvement, risk management, and control strengthening.
  • Advise functional leadership and senior stakeholders on testing, technology, risk, and cross-functional impacts.
  • Guide technical direction, coach less experienced specialists, and potentially define team responsibilities and future resource needs.

Requirements

  • Strong experience as a technically minded software engineer focused on Quality Engineering and software testing automation.
  • Expertise in test management, test strategy, automation frameworks, and modern test-efficiency tools.
  • Experience with automated testing frameworks for web, mobile, and API technology stacks.
  • Knowledge of service virtualization, GitLab, BDD, and Gherkin.
  • Experience with GitLab Duo, Selenium, Karate, and Cucumber is highly valued.
  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and repositories, including tools such as Jenkins and GitHub.
  • Practical experience supporting non-production environments involving distributed systems and highly available services.
  • Experience with observability and monitoring solutions such as AppDynamics, Splunk, or ELK is desirable.
  • Strong logical reasoning, problem-solving, performance-tuning, communication, time-management, and stakeholder-influencing skills.
  • Ability to work in large collaborative teams, respond to changing priorities, and guide technical or specialist assignments.
  • Ability to contribute to strategy, risk and controls, change and transformation, business alignment, and long-term technical decisions.

Benefits

  • The role is based in Pune.
  • The position may include people leadership or may operate as a senior individual-contributor subject-matter-expert role, depending on assignment.

Tech Stack

CucumberJenkinsSeleniumSplunk

Categories

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About Barclays

10,000+ employees

Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients, and communities. For further information about Barclays, please visit home.barclays.

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