Test Analyst

Job description

About Barclays

Barclays is an international financial services provider engaged in personal banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking and wealth management with an extensive presence in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Barclays' purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way.

With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, Barclays operates in over 50 countries and employs approximately 140,000 people. Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.

At Barclays, we recruit based on merit and are committed to promoting diversity throughout our organisation.

About Barclays Corporate & Information

Barclays Corporate & International is a diversified transatlantic business comprising our corporate banking franchise, which is market leading in the UK with strong international growth opportunities, our top-tier investment bank, a strong and growing US and international cards business, our international wealth offering, and leading payments capability through both corporate banking and the Barclaycard merchant acquiring expertise. Barclays Corporate & International has scale in wholesale banking and consumer lending, strength in our key markets, excellent growth potential, and good balance in its revenue streams, delivering further resilience and diversification.

Global Pricing Tool – Corporate ( PCB)

Application is used to model product offerings to calculate return on risk-weighted assets (RoRWA) for Corporate Prospects/Clients. It also automates the pricing approval process, creating a reference of approved pricing for Corporate Clients. Pricing can be initiated automatically from Salesforce Opportunities and are ‘Client Centric' meaning that each deal can include one or more products from one or more product areas. Whilst product pricing is approved in the tool, the products' credit limits are also subject to Risk sanction and once they have been offered/accepted by the client, an fulfilment process is initiated. Booked product details are also captured in GPT allowing for reconciliation and potential downstream automation in the future. The modelling features within GPT allow for reference data to be adjusted manually, for example Severity. Severity overrides in GPT are retained and used downstream as an input for calculating our capital positions and reporting to the regulator

Overall job purpose of this - Test Engineer is accountable to the Test Lead/Manager and his/her core responsibility is to execute to the functional testing plan as defined by the Test Lead/Manager with minimal supervision.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

· The role will execute to the functional testing plan, strategy and approach with adequate support

· The role will be responsible for creation and execution of reusable test scripts.

· The role will ensure usage of right test data for the right test environments and scenarios with complete coverage

· The role will report and track defects till they are closed

· The role will ensure that test execution, defect logging & tracking and reporting are centralised and refreshed in Quality Centre

· The role will liaise with other project test streams and close out requirements and dependencies in testing

· The role will undertake root cause analysis of defects and communicate to Business and project Teams

· The role will update the Test Lead/Manager on progress of testing activities performed

· The role will assist in the induction of new joiners, mentoring less experienced team members

· The role will proactively take on additional tasks and ad-hoc projects as requested by the Test Lead/Manager

· Continuous Improvement

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· Improve technical knowledge and functional subject matter expertise through self-learning or training.

· Knowledge sharing with colleagues and peers in SOLD/GTSA testing streams

· Work with other test team members to improve testing processes

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· Stakeholder management and leadership.

· Effectively manage stakeholder expectations through communications activity to enable the successful delivery of initiatives.

· Support business administration activities which may include Organisational structure, Communications and Facilities Management (where applicable). Work with the appropriate teams on space management, forecasting and logistics.

· Facilitate specific regional and locational support where agreed ensuring appropriate levels of support are in place for the CORPORATE Technology team and wider business management team.

· Actively support the management of resource and headcount requests, and financial management.

· Build and maintain professional relationships with key stakeholders, partnering with the Business Managers within Corporate Technology and wider Chief of Staff team for CORPORATE Technology.

· Support the governance management strategy, including aggregation of ad-hoc strategic MI (including Business Performance reporting).

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· Decision making and problem solving.

· Develop team based problem solving, driving solutions consistency within the CORPORATE Technology strategy, working with the federated business management team to support effective delivery against our CORPORATE Technology vision and objectives.

· Support Commercial Management activities across the Corporate Technology Chief of Staff function, focusing on our cost and Supplier Management strategic agenda. Liaise with internal and external suppliers to ensure data and information feeds (for cost, risk and operational performance) to support the requirements of CORPORATE Technology.

· Exercise effective governance and controls to support the management of compliance training, ensuring all training is completed within Group deadlines, collating and aggregating required Management Information as appropriate.

· Support the change governance processes, driving continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and best practice across teams.

· Central point of contact for managing queries, escalations and team access rights

· Risk and Control Objective - Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Barclays Operational Risk Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Standards

Requirements for IJP for the position of Programme Test Analyst – BC&I

Significant experience in Mainframe Testing

Below skills specific to Mainframes is mandatory

Basic DB2 knowledge

SQL Queries

JCL

JCL Procedures

Basic knowledge of Cobol

Basic knowledge of Z/OS

Significant experience of the testing lifecycle with prior involvement in all aspects of testing (preparation, execution, defect management etc.)

Good Knowledge of Core Banking Application in the bank.

Good understanding of the challenges of functional testing in a complex environment, and an understanding of the tools and techniques available to meet these challenges.

Knowledge of industry best practices, tools and methods

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work under pressure and to assist peers in same situation whilst ensuring that quality is maintained

Ability to influence stakeholders through reasoned argument

Ability to build good working relationships with peers and key stakeholders in SOLD/GTSA test disciplines

　

Barclays Values and Diversity

Our common purpose is to help people achieve their ambitions – in the right way. We'll measure and reward our people, not just on commercial results, but on how they live our Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship and bring them to life every day. To find out more about working at Barclays and the development opportunities we offer please visit our website www.barclays.com

We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.

You must meet the following eligibility criteria for role:

· To apply for this role, upload a copy of your updated resume.

Additional Details:

· Grade: BA4

· Location: BTCI

· Number of Open Positions: 1