Job Title: Automation Tester
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 an Automation Tester within this function, you will define, execute and reviews tests and tests evidences with the objective to demonstrate software meets the functional and technical expectations set by users and IT Stakeholders. The key driver is to create comprehensive automated tests to shift away from manual testing where possible.
This is a fantastic role for someone more focused in manual testing, but who has an appreciation of scripting in C# / Java and looking to move into a more automated position.
What will you be doing?
• Acquire understanding of specific market risk systems to be able to define test plans for given projects
• Create suite of tests to ensure all key user journeys and integration points have suitable coverage
• Raise and track bug reports/incidents, provide sufficient details for Dev team to investigate
• Develop new functional and regression tests
• Expand automated testing frameworks
• Set up, configure and maintain test environments
• Adhere to team standards and best practices, propose improvements to the development/testing process.
What we’re looking for:
• Strong manual testing exposure, with a desire to move more into automation (C# scripting)
• Strong Selenium and / or JIRA exposure
• Full testing lifecycle exposure.
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Any exposure to automation testing using C# to write test scripts would be beneficial
• Knowledge of relational databases such as SQL, MongoDB
• Used to working in an Agile environment
• Excellent communication skills.
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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