Tesco Bank Senior Programme Test Lead

Barclays Bank PLC
Edinburgh, UK
12 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Amazon Web Services JIRA Big Data Data Migration Data Warehousing Strategies of Testing Databricks

Job description

You will be joining as a Programme Test Lead for the internal project to help us deliver a large-scale integration programme. The successful candidate will be responsible for test strategy and co-ordination, interfacing with multiple teams across Business and IT. The role will require the ability to effectively communicate with all members of the team, ranging from technical personnel to programme leadership., * Generating Test Strategy, Designs and Reports, working with teams across Business and IT

  • Validating test scope by reviewing of requirements and design documentation, liaising with SMEs
  • Communication of testing strategy and progress to senior programme and business stakeholders
  • Defining Testing Roles and responsibilities, and ensuring agreement on dependencies
  • Working with each of the teams involved to ensure end to end testing
  • Reviewing test results and any defects/reporting progress, risks & issues
  • Investigating issues and working with test teams to identify root cause and resolution

Requirements

  • Test leadership with experience in large scale data migration programmes, preferably in Credit Risk and risk models
  • Strong communications skills - with a focus on influencing, and bringing together technical and business areas
  • Hands- on experience with AWS, Datawarehouse , Data migration, Databricks
  • Expertise in Test tooling - eg Jira
  • Experience in Banking sector
  • Agile

Benefits & conditions

As a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. There’s enrolment in a pension plan (after 12 weeks on assignment) and holiday pay (after eight weeks on assignment). You can discuss any special holiday requests, for weddings, graduations or other significant occasions during this initial period with your team leader. You’ll also get 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, designed to help you deal with any problems that could be affecting your home or work life. Plus, there’s discounts at heaps of high street shops, restaurants and entertainment - from Asda to Zizzi Italian restaurants. #J-18808-Ljbffr

About the company

Tesco Bank is part of Barclays. All contingent opportunities are managed by Randstad in partnership with Barclays., Barclays is a British universal bank. It is diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Barclays businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by its service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group., Everything Barclays does is shaped by its five values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship. The Barclays values inform the foundations of its relationships with customers and clients, but they also shape how Barclays measures and rewards the performance of colleagues. Simply put, success is not just about what you achieve, but about how you achieve it.

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