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Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.\nCross-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.\nCollaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.\nStay 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.\nAdherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.\nImplementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.\nAssistant Vice President Expectations\nTo advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. 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They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.\nConsult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.\nIdentify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.\nTake ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.\nPerform 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.\nCollaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.\nEngage 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.\nCommunicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.\nInfluence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.\nAll 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.\nJoin us as a Sr Automation Tester at Barclays where you will spearhead the evolution of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines, driving innovation and operational excellence. 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Technical Expertise\nStrong knowledge of:Selenium and BDD frameworks\nSQL/PL-SQL\nAPI and integration testing\nUnix/Linux\nJenkins, Git, DevOps tools\nTest management tools such as Jira and Quality Center\n\nAbility to troubleshoot complex testing and environment issues.\n3. Test Strategy & Delivery Leadership\nDefine and own end-to-end test strategy, test plans, and quality approach.\nLead SIT, ST, OAT, UAT support, and regression testing activities.\nEnsure quality outcomes across complex business and technology changes.\nProvide delivery governance, RAID management, and release readiness assessments.\n4. Risk, Controls & Quality Governance\nIdentify and mitigate testing risks early.\nEnsure audit readiness, traceability, and regulatory compliance.\nDrive defect prevention and root-cause analysis.\nEstablish quality metrics and continuous improvement mechanisms.\n5. Stakeholder & Program Management\nManage engagements across Development, Business Analysis, Product, Operations, and Testing teams.\nInfluence decision-making through data-driven quality insights.\nEffectively communicate risks, dependencies, and quality status to senior stakeholders.\nCoordinate multiple global teams and vendors where required.\n6.. Leadership & People Development\nMentor engineers and build automation capability across teams.\nConduct technical interviews and talent assessments.\nPromote high-performance engineering culture.\nDrive knowledge sharing and organizational capability growth.\n7. Business & Domain Knowledge\nFor Payments/BFSI organizations, AVPs are expected to demonstrate:\nStrong payment domain expertise (SWIFT, ISO 20022, XML, payment processing).\nUnderstanding of end-to-end business flows and regulatory requirements.\nAbility to translate business requirements into effective automation solutions.\nSome other highly valued skills may include:\nEngineering & Automation\nPerformance and non-functional testing exposure (JMeter, LoadRunner, Gatling).\nService virtualization, stubs, and mock services development.\nContainerization and cloud-native testing (Docker, Kubernetes).\nTest data management and synthetic data generation.\nFamiliarity with microservices architecture and event-driven systems.\nDevOps & Platform Engineering\nJenkins pipeline development and CI/CD optimization.\nGitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts.\nExposure to Azure, AWS, or GCP testing environments.\nMonitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace, or 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