Technical Test Manager- BPL

8120 Barclaycard UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays seeks a Technical Test Manager for BPL-CIO in London to lead test strategy across complex programmes and coordinate QA activities.

You will oversee automation, APIs, distributed architectures, data handling, and AI governance within testing, ensuring secure, scalable and high-quality software deliveries in a hybrid, office-plus-home setup.

Qualifications

• Lead risk-based testing for large, complex programmes with engineering credibility.
• Experience implementing automation, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Govern AI within testing, with evaluation of limitations and human oversight.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the test strategy across large programmes.
• Coordinate with teams to ensure best practice and quality outcomes.
• Report testing status and drive improvements in quality and security.

Skills

Leadership of risk-based testing

Automation

APIs

Distributed architectures

Data

Cloud

CI/CD

Python

SQL

AI governance

Job description

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.

Vice President Expectations

To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures. If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements. 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions. Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment. Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business. Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies. Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes. Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes. All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Technical Test Manager - BPL - CIO

Join us as a Technical Test Manager- BPL - CIO as we experience large change in organisation and will require coordination for Test Strategy, work with all teams to understand what needs to be in place, putting those in place, coordinate capabilities. This role requires a technical person that can do Project and Test Management. A key responsibility will be reporting around testing, incorporation AI to assist in the technical requirements and strategy. You will be will oversee quality, best practice across teams and make sure it is as effortless and progressive as possible. This is an exciting chance to work greenfield, build new components and also migrations from legacy.

Essential Skills

To be successful as a Technical Test Manager- BPL , you must have the following essential skills; Leadership of risk-based testing for large, technically complex programmes, supported by hands-on engineering credibility Excellent technical understanding of automation, APIs, distributed architectures, data, cloud and CI/CD Practical application and governance of AI within testing, including evaluation, limitations and human oversight Some other highly valued skills may include; Payments, financial services and operational resilience experience Experience implementing quality-engineering operating models or enterprise test platforms Working knowledge of Python, SQL, observability and AI governance sufficient to inspect and challenge technical outputs.

Assessment Criteria

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.

Location

The successful candidate will be based in London. Our offices are located at 1 Churchill Place and 7 Westferry Circus (new BPL office). We support a hybrid working pattern with 3 days per week office-based presence expected.

Partnership and Investment

Barclays’ payments acceptance business provides critical infrastructure to the UK economy, processing billions of pounds of payments annually for both small businesses and domestic and international corporate clients. In April 2025, we announced a long-term partnership with Brookfield Asset Management to grow and transform the payments acceptance business by broadening the range of services offered, enhancing the experience for both existing and prospective clients. Leveraging extensive client relationships and deep experience of UK payments, we will create an environment of continuous innovation - activated by Brookfield’s global private equity expertise in payments, technology, operational transformation and corporate carve-outs - to ensure the business is strategically positioned for long-term growth. Barclays will invest approximately £400m in the new business, the majority of which will be incurred during the first three years. Performance-linked incentives will drive greater alignment between the partners, underpinning the long-term commitment to the transformation. Barclays and Brookfield will work to create a standalone entity over time, continuing to use the Barclaycard Payments (BPL) brand and acting as the sole payments’ acceptance services provider to Barclays’ clients for a minimum of ten years. For more information on our partnership with Brookfield, please visit Barclays.com

Our Work Experience

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.