QA/Test Automation role Engineer

Team: Barclays

Location: Hybrid / Praha - Pankrác

Commitment: Contractor

Workplace Type: hybrid

Overall Purpose of the Role:

Work as a QA / Test Automation Engineer within the FX technology team, contributing to projects as defined by business requirements and prioritisation.
The role focuses on expanding and maintaining automated test coverage for complex, business critical applications, working closely with developers, product, and infrastructure teams to ensure quality and reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain automated test cases.
Increase and maintain test coverage across components, integrations, and end to end flows.
Contribute tests throughout the development lifecycle, aligned with feature delivery and release plans.
Execute and analyse automated and manual test runs, identifying defects and quality risks.
Work closely with developers to reproduce issues, validate fixes, and improve testability.
Maintain and extend existing tests to keep them reliable, readable, and maintainable.
Participate in design and solution discussions from a quality and risk perspective.
Support release activities by providing test results, coverage insight, and sign off input.

Essential Skills / Basic Qualifications:

Strong experience with variety of test automation frameworks
Experience testing multi tier enterprise systems with messaging or event driven components
Hands on experience with automated testing (component, integration, regression, end to end)
Experience testing back end systems or other high performance platforms
Good understanding of relational databases and data driven testing
Ability to write test code using one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g. Python, Java, C++, bash)
Strong knowledge of standard development and CI/CD tools (e.g. Git, TeamCity, GitLab)
Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and cloud native testing principles
Prior exposure to real time, pricing, FX, or trading systems is highly desirable

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