Technical Test Automation Specialist

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent in Pune is seeking a Technical Test Automation Specialist to design, develop, and execute testing strategies ensuring software quality and reliability.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements, define acceptance criteria, and drive early defect detection through automation. The role emphasizes hands-on Python-based automation, building test pipelines in GitLab, and maintaining robust testing processes within Azure/AWS environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and executing test strategies.
• Proficient in Python-based test automation.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and testing lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute testing strategies across functionality and performance.
• Create and run automated test scripts to detect defects early.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Perform root-cause analysis with developers to resolve defects.

Skills

Python

Test automation

QA experience

Estimation & test planning

Tools

GitLab

Git

Azure

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Job Description Purpose of the role 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.

Accountabilities

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.

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 understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub‑function.

Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.

Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.

Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.

Influence or convince stakeholders 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.

What We’re Looking For

To be successful as a “Technical Test Automation Specialist", you should have experience with:

• BDD using Python development - must have coded in python to build/contribute to test automation frameworks
• Strong experience in QA – Test Automation and Manual
• Experience of building test automation pipelines using Gitlab
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure or AWS and knowledge of what landing zones are
• Extensive knowledge of testing lifecycle and core testing process/techniques using different test approaches
• Experience of using the source code control system in Gitlab
• Experience of using the Git source code control system
• Good with providing estimations, designing test plans and test strategy, writing test scenarios, cases, executing test cases, opening bugs, verifying bugs

Desired Skills

• Azure Certifications - Az104 - Azure Administrator
• something similar in other Public Clouds such as AWS or GCP
• Exposure to Terraform UI and API test automation
• exposure is prefeared

This role is based out of Pune.

About Our Culture

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.