Job Description

Test Environments Manager
Northampton

As a Barclays Test Environment Manager, you will define best coding practices and ensure these are adhered to via code-reviews. You will also be an active member of an Agile team and assist other areas when required. As part of this roll, you will ensure code meets quality standards and coverage as measured by code reviews & unit tests (at 90%), Sonar Static code analysis and/or QA reports and 100% adoption of standard DevOps tools including code quality instrumentation tool, ensuring Top code quality rating and test data management.

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 \xe2\x80\x93 helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

Working Flexibly
We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers\xe2\x80\x99 and clients\xe2\x80\x99 needs. Whether you have family commitments or you\xe2\x80\x99re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life.
If you would like some flexibility then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.

Hybrid Working
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means 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. We\xe2\x80\x99re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances
Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.

What will you be doing?

• Ensuring the integrity of all test environments

• Working with the Test Managers/ leads to develop a calendar showing all the test environments in use across the whole portfolio

• Creating and allocating Test environments, promoting and influencing our agile principles

• You will influence the test approach for scrum teams with consideration of dependencies

• Enabling and maintaining the connectivity of one system to an another in collaboration with the application team, network designers, solution architect & etc

• You will influence the test approach for scrum teams with consideration of dependencies

What we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Experience of Certificate Renewal in test environments

• Detailed knowledge of both the project life cycle and testing life cycle

• Excellent stakeholder management skills (both internal and external)

• Experience of Banking acquisition (on boarding of Clients & Customers) & Account Management/ servicing

Skills that will help you in the role:

• Prior experience managing Test Environments

• Great communications skills

• Ability to interact well with peers, wider team and stakeholders up to senior level

Where will you be working?
Northampton was the birthplace of Barclaycard in 1966 and we\'ve been based in Pavilion Drive since the building opened in 1997. We purchased the building from the landlord in early 2018 as a sign of our commitment to investment in Northampton. Plans to further develop this Campus-style location are under way to allow for a real collaborative work environment. Based just off the A45 it is easily accessible by both car and bus routes.

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