Test Architect-VP
On-sitePune, Maharashtra, India
Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaOn-siteFull TimeSenior LevelMedium
Full TimeSenior LevelMedium
Job Summary
Design and execute comprehensive test strategies to validate software functionality, performance, and user experience while collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects. Develop automated test scripts using frameworks like Gitlab Duo, Selenium, and Karate, and lead root cause analysis for identified issues. Manage test resources, budgets, and policies to deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of procedures. Drive automation and efficiency targets, plan departmental operations, and counsel employees on performance. Advise senior management on functional impacts and mitigate risks through assessment and governance.
Required Qualifications
- Experience with Test Management, driving test strategy, automation framework, and modern test efficiency tools, including Gitlab Duo, Selenium, Karate, Cucumber
- In-depth knowledge and extensive experience of Testing automation frameworks for Web, Mobile and API tech stack
- Knowledge of Service Virtualization, Gitlab
- Strong understanding of BDD and Gherkin
- Strong logical reasoning, problem solving and performance tuning Skills
- Strong communication skills
- Understanding of CI/CD Pipelines and Repositories, for example Jenkins and GitHub
- Ability to work in large, collaborative teams to achieve organizational goals
- Flexibility to react effectively to changing priorities and a willingness to step outside of role boundaries to achieve results
- Practical experience of supporting and maintaining non production environments with distributed systems and highly available services
- Strong, technically minded Software engineer with focus on Quality Engineering
- Strong time management skills
- Action-orientated with a focus on continuous improvement (efficiency and effectiveness) in all areas of responsibility
- Proactive and innovative and have the ability to deliver quality results with a challenging but positive and influential style
- Relationship builder with a reputation for integrity, evoking rapid trust and confidence in clients, colleagues, and teams alike
- Able to understand colleague's challenges and perspectives and put solutions in place to satisfy these
- Manage and maintain policies/ processes
- Plan resources, budgets, and policies
- Deliver continuous improvements
- Escalate breaches of policies/procedures
- Define jobs and responsibilities
- Planning for the department's future needs and operations
- Counselling employees on performance
- Contributing to employee pay decisions/changes
- Lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department
- Balance short- and long-term goals
- Ensure that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements
- Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard
- Listen and be authentic
- Energise and inspire
- Align across the enterprise
- Develop others
- Be a subject matter expert within own discipline
- Guide technical direction
- Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments
- Guide team members through structured assignments
- Identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments
- Train, guide and coach less experienced specialists
- 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
- Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
- Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive
Desired Qualifications
- Practical experience of Observability/Monitoring solutions (such as AppDynamics, Splunk, ELK or similar is desirable)
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