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Lead QE Architect

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India; United Kingdom , Pune ▼

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Job Description:

To design, develop, and execute testing strategies to validate functionality, performance, and user experience, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve defects, and continuously improve testing processes and methodologies, to ensure software quality and reliability.

Job Responsibility:

  • Establish the quality vision
  • Design testing architecture
  • Create strategic test plans
  • Define and enforce quality gates
  • Integrate quality 'leftward'
  • Mentor Automation Engineers
  • Bridge communication gaps
  • Evaluate new technologies
  • Monitor and report metrics
  • Standardize processes
  • Development and implementation of comprehensive test plans and strategies
  • Creation and execution automated test scripts
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Root cause analysis for identified defects
  • Collaboration with peers
  • Stay informed of industry technology trends
  • Manage a business function
  • Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function
  • Provide expert advice
  • Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing
  • Escalates breaches of policies
  • Foster and guide compliance
  • Focus on the external environment
  • Demonstrate extensive knowledge
  • Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge
  • Use interpretative thinking
  • Exercise management authority
  • Negotiate with and influence stakeholders
  • Act as principal contact point
  • Mandated as a spokesperson
  • Demonstrate leadership behaviours
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Values
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset

Requirements:

  • Define and communicate a comprehensive, long-term vision for the organization's quality engineering strategy
  • Design testing architecture by maintaining and selecting the optimal tools such as Gitlab Duo, Technologies, and Java based frameworks for automation
  • Create strategic test plans that cover the entire Testing lifecycle
  • Define and enforce quality gates within the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline
  • Integrate quality 'leftward' by working with development teams to 'shift quality left,' encouraging and implementing testing practices earlier in the development cycle
  • Mentor Automation Engineers by Providing technical leadership and mentorship
  • Bridge communication gaps: Act as a central point of contact to ensure that all teams are aligned on quality objectives
  • Evaluate new technologies: Research, evaluate, and deploy new and innovative testing tools and technologies
  • Monitor and report metrics: Define and track key quality metrics and performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Standardize processes: Define and standardize quality assurance procedures, guidelines, and documentation
  • Development and implementation of comprehensive test plans and strategies
  • Creation and execution automated test scripts
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams to analyse requirements
  • Root cause analysis for identified defects
  • Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews
  • Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations
  • Manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives
  • Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers
  • Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees
  • Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function
  • Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately
  • Foster and guide compliance
  • Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups
  • Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group
  • Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices
  • Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems
  • Exercise management authority to make significant decisions
  • Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level
  • Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts
  • Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division
  • Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours (LEAD: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others)
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship
  • Demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive
What we offer:
  • Competitive holiday allowance
  • Life assurance
  • Private medical care
  • Pension contribution

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 26, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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