Test Automation Lead - Glasgow, United Kingdom - Barclays

Barclays
Barclays
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Glasgow, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Test Automation Lead

Glasgow


As a Barclays Test Automation Lead, you will be responsible to work with multiple business aligned scrum teams to conduct performance-based testing, engineering, and monitoring activities.

The engineer will work with the scrum teams and members from a central Performance Engineering team to test the performance of the systems, documenting issues, and work with whomever it takes to determine root cause of any issues.

The measure of success is preventing any significant performance problems from hitting Production at a large scale.


Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation.

We offer careers that provide endless opportunity - helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.


What will you be doing?

  • Reporting on the possibilities of performance failures and making sound decisions for next steps and measuring results against business and technical requirements
  • Understanding and writing utilities using Python/Java for the automation of Performance Test cycle
  • Developing and validating test scripts against business unitofwork requirements and scripting best practices

What we're looking for:


  • Able to ensure all scripts are appropriately correlated, parameterized, with any check points, think time need to be added, etc
  • Experienced with monitoring tools like CA Wily Introscope, AppDynamics, vmstat, iostat, htop and Splunk

Skills that will help you in the role:

  • Conceptual Understanding/Hands on of AIX, VMware, Tomcat, SQL Server, Oracle, etc
  • Prior experience/knowledge of working with Banking Domain/Application
  • Prior experience with Tuning/optimization of.
NET/J2EE Applications

  • Experience in writing simple monitoring and data extraction tools in Java, Python, and/or Unix shell

Where will you be working?
Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential.

Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists.

A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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