Job Title : FX Test Automation Engineer
Location : York
Company : Barclays UK
Salary :
Open Date : 2024-02-13
Close Date : 2024-06-13

Prague
As a Barclays FX Test Automation Engineer, you will be a part of FX Technology team and you will be working on multi-year effort to re-build FX platform from the ground up to deliver solution that can be deliver faster, quicker, easily and with less risk. You will work with new platform that will also bring number of business, regulatory and infrastructural changes. This is an opportunity for you to assist with initiatives to design, prototype, build, and deliver a state-of-the-art trading and pricing platform.

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.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

Working closely with the development team from the start of development in order to advise on what is needed to facilitate manual and automated testing

Recognizing new features in development and designing the test cases that will be required to achieve optimal test coverage

Taking part in whole team daily meetings from the outset of a project to discuss issues, progress and blockers

Working closely with other functional testers to help support them in the automation of existing testing

Helping diagnose the causes of failures in execution of test suites when they occur and working with the development teams to resolve them

Working on multi-year effort to re-build FX platform from the ground up to deliver solutions that can be deliver faster, quicker, easily and with less risk

Assisting with initiative to design, prototype, build, and deliver a state-of-the-art trading and pricing platform
What we’re looking for:

Excellent manual and automation testing experience in a complex area (does not have to be FX or Banking)

Previous experience with bespoke automation solutions and in the creation, maintenance, and execution of automated tests and solid experience with Java or Python

Experience with relational and non-relational databases and with log file analysis with de-bugging, Messaging and SQL as part of Server side testing

Familiarity with continuous integration systems such as TeamCity/Jenkins/GitLab/GitHub

Skills that will help you in the role:

Previous work on a front office trading application

Experience with e-commerce systems

Experience gained in Foreign Exchange Cash & Options and/or Money Markets

Where will you be working?
Our Prague office is based in the financial centre of Prague. We are part of the Operations and Technology Division, and as such, we try our best to stay at the top of our technological game. However, the technology itself is not the most important thing. What matters the most to us is the way our ingenuity can help provide better service to our customers and make life easier for our employees.

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