QA Automation Engineer

Prague, Czechia

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Date live: Oct. 11, 2022

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Technology

Reference Code: 90278699

Contract: Permanent/Regular

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QA Automation Engineer
Prague

As a Barclay’s QA Automation Engineer you will be contributing to various financial crime platform data processing components, tools and platform enhancements to provide cutting edge solutions, based primarily on Hadoop clusters. Your main focus will be to assure quality of releasing components during development cycle by analysing, designing and implementing automated integration tests.

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.

What will you be doing?

• Participating in requirements analysis of new changes to understand well how to assure quality
• Controlling and monitoring testing progress, defect tracking and maintaining appropriate metrics
• Taking ownership of defining test cases and creating automated integration and end-to-end tests for new and existing features
• Working as part of the team on the delivery – to achieve good and effective test coverage of requirements
• Participating in Level 3 production support from quality perspective, mainly supporting issues root cause analysis and drive testing of the fixes, engaging with the support group
• Collaborating with the team and team Lead/ PM on the delivery, and contribute to incremental improvements of the development process
• Managing stakeholders’ expectations effectively and in an appropriate manner
• Working on your development – technical, business related and soft-skills in a proactive and consistent manner

What we’re looking for:

• Expertise in automation of integration tests, using Java or Scala language
• Behavior Driven Development experience – preferably Cucumber or jBehave frameworks
• Development essentials – GIT, IDE (preferably IntelliJ) and CI/ CD tools, like TeamCity, Nexus, Nolio
• Knowledge of Linux and basics of shell scripting

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Knowledge of Selenium
• Experience with REST API testing
• Knowledge of SQL, Devops stack - Chef, AWS, OpenShift
• Knowledge of Jira

Where will you be working?

Our Prague office is part of the Operations and Technology Division, and as such, we try our best to stay at the top of our technological game. However, the technology itself is not the most important thing. What matters the most to us is the way our ingenuity can help provide better service to our customers and make life easier for our employees.

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Our approach to hybrid working ensures there’s the right balance of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, as required for each role. For business areas that offer a hybrid working experience, this will be in a structured way, where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week. Some roles may require full onsite working. Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager.

We continue to embed and review our hybrid working environment and remain in a phase of testing and learning. This means that working arrangements could change, with reasonable notice, to align with the needs of our business.

Barclays welcomes applications from all candidates and is committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments (accommodations) are put in place to allow for a fair and inclusive recruitment process. For more information and how to request one, please review Adjustments to the recruitment process.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture and environment, that recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives, as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs.

Our approach to working flexibly is designed to support you to balance your life and to accommodate diverse needs, whilst still allowing us to meet our business needs. If you’d like to request a flexible working arrangement, please discuss this with your hiring manager.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and opposed to discrimination on any grounds. It is the policy of Barclays to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law.

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