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Automation Tester

🏢 Barclays • 📍 Knutsford, England • 🕒 Today

Salary Range

£25,000 - £35,931

£2,083 - £2,994 / mo

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Location Base

Knutsford, England

Tier-1 UK Economic Zone

Est. Take-Home Pay

68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

Automation Tester
Knutsford

As a Barclays Automation Tester, you will be delivering Test Management accountabilities over testing projects by providing support to the QA leadership team by taking ownership of some of the key strategic initiatives and domain changes. Core purposes will include defining test strategy for the Domain, managing the team and external teams to deliver the features within time frames, cost scales and quality levels expected by the stakeholders, while bringing industry expertise and knowledge into testing to drive innovation and new capabilities.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?
• Planning proactively and effectively to execute customer testing of a feature/domain

Ensuring test deliverables are of highest quality and assigned team members produce them in line with the project schedule
Defining testing strategy with clearly written detailed test approach for each of the in-scope test phases
Guaranteeing the test team create & execute tests using both automation tools & manual methods as applicable and aligning to the overall test strategy that is defined
Participating in daily scrum stand-up meetings and explaining progress and any issues encountered
Applying change management and configuration management principles to manage changing requirements, scope, and approach during execution phase
Driving collaboration between the testing, development, assistance, and business teams to ensure quality of delivery at each phase of testing
Coaching the wider testing community in test automation – providing technical direction, guidance, and hands-on management

What we’re looking for:
• Several years’ experience in software testing and in test management

Experience integrating automation tests with continuous delivery tools
Previous experience in environments including Cucumber, JVM, Selenium and Java
Familiarity with JIRA/Confluence

Skills that will help you in the role:
• PMP and ISTQB/QAI certification

Domain/Testing/Technical certification
Demonstratable experience in a similar position

Where will you be working?
You will be based in Radbroke, Knutsford. The Barclays Technology Campus just outside Manchester is our tech command centre and a vital strategic powerhouse behind our global operations. The campus is set in a 64 acre self-contained site, in a beautiful green environment and it offers unrivalled facilities for work and for play. We have an onsite gym, as well as outdoor tennis, football and cricket areas, as well as onsite restaurant and coffee shops.

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