Test Automation Engineer
Barclays · Posted Oct 27
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays is a global financial services organization, and this role sits within its technology function supporting banking domains such as Payments & Transfer, Treasury, Settlement, Reconciliation, and Regulatory and Compliance Controls. The team designs, develops, and executes testing strategies that validate functionality, performance, and user experience while driving quality engineering and automation standards. The Test Automation Engineer will build and maintain automation frameworks for API, UI, and end-to-end testing using Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, and Karate, integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects.
What you will do
- To design, develop, and execute testing strategies to validate functionality, performance, and user experience, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects, and continuously improve testing processes and methodologies, to ensure software quality and reliability.
- Development and implementation of comprehensive test plans and strategies to validate software functionality and ensure compliance with established quality standards.
- Creation and execution automated test scripts, leveraging testing frameworks and tools to facilitate early detection of defects and quality issues.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams to analyse requirements, participate in design discussions, and contribute to the development of acceptance criteria, ensuring a thorough understanding of the software being tested.
- Root cause analysis for identified defects, working closely with developers to provide detailed information and support defect resolution.
- 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Strong hands-on experience in designing, developing, and maintaining test automation frameworks for API, UI, and end-to-end testing.
- Banking domain knowledge such as Payments & Transfer, Treasury, Settlement, Reconciliation, Regulatory and Compliance Controls.
- Extensive experience with Java, Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, Karate, and modern test automation tools.
- Strong programming skills in Core Java with a focus on automation framework development and test engineering best practices.
- Proven expertise in API testing, Web Services, REST APIs, and automation of service-based architectures.
- Experience testing enterprise-scale web-based applications across functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing cycles.
- Strong understanding of software testing concepts, methodologies, test strategies, planning, defect management, and quality assurance processes.
- Good working knowledge of SQL and relational databases for backend validation and data-driven testing.
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery models and test management tools such as Jira.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into DevOps delivery processes.
- Proven ability to drive quality engineering practices, code reviews, automation standards, and testing governance.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and investigative skills with a keen eye for identifying quality risks.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills, working effectively with development, business, and QA teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Exposure to performance, scalability, security, and resilience testing methodologies.
- Hands-on experience with containerized testing environments using Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
- Experience with modern test reporting, monitoring, and quality dashboards.
- Understanding of cloud-native application testing on AWS, Azure, or Barclays Cloud Platform (BCP).
- Experience working with messaging technologies such as Kafka and MQ for event-driven testing.
- Familiarity with Shift-Left testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD), and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) practices.
- Exposure to test data management, service virtualization, and non-functional testing strategies.
- Ability to mentor engineers and drive automation-first quality engineering culture across teams.
- Digital Assets / Blockchain / DLT - Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), Blockchain Architecture, Smart Contract Fundamentals, Tokenization Concepts, Consensus Mechanisms
- Artificial Intelligence & Developer Productivity - AI-enabled SDLC and Engineering Productivity practices
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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