Barclays Careers – Advocate Engineer

About the job

SDET Quality Advocacy

As a Barclays SDET, you will take on real ownership in driving our shift-left transformation; you will engineer continuous testing capabilities based on contemporary delivery and quality practices. Your role is instrumental in improving all aspects of software quality and reliability; collaborating closely with the wider engineering and testing community; evangelising and advocating good software engineering practices.

Barclays is one of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. 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.

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern with the hiring manager.

Hybrid Working

We are currently operating in a hybrid working environment, meaning that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Creating authoritative practical guidance on contemporary quality engineering practices; underpinned by consumable, codified reference implementations
• Designing, develops and evergreens robust high–quality functional and non-functional automated test solutions via continuous integration
• Providing a SWAT engineering capability to accelerate shift-left transformation of quality practices on large or business critical initiatives
• Estimating effort and timescales and deliver to mutually agreed milestones
• Owning the delivery of epics for key features in collaboration with other technical leaders
• Leading the development effort ensuring good software architecture and patterns are implemented
• Supporting and encourage other members of the team to develop against these epics
• Collaborating with peers and leaders to define a prioritised roadmap and backlog

What We’re Looking For

• Appreciation of what good contemporary software engineering quality practices is and how to implement them
• Understanding of testing principles, testing types, and methodologies
• Able to write reusable code/scripts; should be proficient in at least one core language (e.g., Java) and one scripting language (e.g. JS, Python) including debugging issues
• Experience of versioning tools like Git Stash and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery concepts (CI / CD). Also, familiarity with the concepts of Pull requests, code reviews

Skills That Will Help You In The Role

• Cloud technology platforms e.g. Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure. Experience of developing and testing complex Micro Service, web based applications that reference Knowledge Graph back-end systems
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies and should be comfortable in working with a team using the BDD, Sprint/Scrum methodology of agile.
• Good understanding of DevOps and CI/CD pipeline development.

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.