Testing Engineer

As a Barclays Testing Engineer, you will collaborate with the scrum teams and members from a central Performance Engineering team to test the performance of the systems, documenting issues and working with whomever it takes to identify the root cause of any issues. The measure of success is preventing any significant performance problems from hitting Production at a large scale., 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 collaboratively with Performance Test lead interacting with BAs, development groups conduct and participating in line of business performance testing and analysis


• Understanding the NFRs and be able to design work load modelling, test scenarios, scripts etc


• Reporting on the possibilities of performance failures and make sound decisions for next steps


• Measuring, monitoring and capturing required infrastructure & application performance metrics, logs and reports


• Developing and validating test scripts against business unit-of-work requirements and scripting best practices


• Reacting accordingly to various challenges before, during and after application performance testing engagements


• Utilising diagnostic and monitoring tools like CA Wily Introscope, AppDynamics etc. to measure, detect, isolate and resolve performance issues found


• Having Instrument Java calls/Methods on AppDynamics for performance testing and migrating the calls to monitor the applications calls performance in production systems
  
  Great skills with Load Runner/HP Performance Center required script creation using VuGen for Web (HTTP/HTML), Web services, etc. protocols (as applicable) to emulate the application


• Ability to build custom code with the C programming language to make scripts robust and dynamic


• Ability to build, leverage and maintain effective alliance with Business/Development team


• Experience with Agile Software development methodologies and able to adapt him/her-self with the fast pace environment


Skills that will help you in the role:

• Conceptual Understanding/Hands on of AIX, VMware, Tomcat, SQL Server, Oracle, etc


• Prior experience/knowledge 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
  
  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.