Test / QA Specialist

**Date live**:
01/07/2025
**Business Area**:
Private Bank Processing
**Area of Expertise**:
Technology
**Contract**:
Permanent
**Reference Code**:
JR-0000033046
Be a part of a place where challenges are measured in billions, qubits and nanoseconds. Build your career in an environment where we’re advancing machine learning, leveraging blockchains, and harnessing FinTech. Working in Barclays technology, you’ll reimagine possibilities: learning and innovating to solve the challenges ahead, delivering for millions of customers.
We are shaping the future of financial technology.
Why not join us and make it happen here?
Join Barclays as a Test/QA Specialist, where you’ll ensure the quality and reliability of our software solutions. You’ll design and execute test plans, identify defects, and collaborate with development teams to enhance system performance. This is your chance to make an impact in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
**To be successful a Test/QA Specialist you should have**:
Strong track record in Software Testing within the Finance/Trading industry
Test Automation expertise (preferably within a Java framework)
Experience of continuous integration and source control systems (e.g. Jenkins, GIT)
Experience working in various digital channels e.g. Web and Mobile
Excellent communication skills and track record of strong people leadership
**Hands-on experience in all phases of software testing**: system, integration, user acceptance and non-functional
**Some other highly valued skills may include**:
Experience with Jira and Confluence
Testing in public cloud environments (specifically AWS)
Experience with test data management tools and load generators for non-functional testing
Strong experience in the Wealth Management, Financial Planning and Digital Investing domains
Experience of working in agile projects.
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role will be based in Glasgow location.
Purpose of the role
To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.
Accountabilities
Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Assistant Vice President Expectations
To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.
OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires