Job Title: Senior Automation Tester (C#)
Location: Glasgow
Our Risk, Finance and Treasury Technology team (RFT) is a global division across the UK, US, India & Czech Republic. We deliver the technology services for RFT, working in partnership with business customers to develop and implement long term strategic IT solutions. We support more than 450 applications and a user base of over 7000+ staff.
The Market Risk team is responsible for managing the risk to the group’s earnings or capital due to changes in the level or volatility of prices. It includes risk arising from changes in interest rates, credit spreads, commodity prices, equity prices and foreign exchange levels.
As the Senior Automation Tester within this function, you will define the strategy and plan for the increasing automated test coverage of the existing code base and integration points. We need a logical and organised individual to quickly solve complex problems with a great degree of independence.
What will you be doing?
• Produce/update automated regression test packs to test new and amended software or services
• Lead the technical testing of applications and ensure the QA team adheres to best practices
• Ensure the software needs the functional and technical expectations set by users and IT stakeholders
• Execute the tests, raise and track bug reports/incidents, provide sufficient details for the Dev team to investigate
• Expand automated testing frameworks
• Actively participate in meetings with BA’s and Development team to clarify requirements and to drive the project, conduct test case reviews to ensure they accurately capture business functionality.
What we’re looking for:
• Strong Automation Tester using C# to write test scripts
• Exposure using test automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium and JIRA
• Able to lead testing projects, driving them from end to end
• Excellent communication skills.
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Knowledge of relational databases such as SQL, MongoDB
• Used to working in an Agile environment
• Familiarity with continuous integration tools (Team City, Nolio, and Jenkins etc).
Where will you be working?
You will be working at our technology hub in Scotland, Aurora house; a stones through away from Glasgow Central Train Station.
Interested and want to know more about Barclays? Visit home.barclays/who-we-are/ for more details.
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