Job Title: Assistant Vice President - Testing  Corporate Grade: AVP  Reports to (Line Manager's Job Title): Vice President / Director  Direct Reports (if applicable): 5-8 Test / Sr. Test Analyst, 2-3 Asst. Manager Testing  Business Area: BUK  Department/Function Level 1: O&T  Department/Function Level 2: IIT Info. & Ops.  Primary Location: Chennai  IAR Role : No  Regulated Role : No  About Barclays :   Barclays is a transatlantic consumer, corporate and investment bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in our two home markets of the UK and the US. Our goal is to become the bank of choice by providing superior services to customers and clients and supporting our stakeholders via a commercially successful business that generates long-term sustainable returns.   Our two clearly defined divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, provide diversification by business line, geography, and customer, enhancing financial resilience and helping to contribute to the delivery of consistent returns through the business cycle. We have a strong core business with exciting prospects, well positioned to deliver long-term value to our shareholders.   Consistent with the objective of delivering long-term sustainable value for all our stakeholders, we have developed our Shared Growth Ambition - our approach to citizenship and the sustainability of the business model we operate. The aim is to make decisions and do business that provides our clients and customers, and the communities which we serve, with access to a prosperous future.   The delivery of our strategy is underpinned by the energy, commitment, and passion of our people, and we are clear on our common purpose: to help people achieve their ambitions, in the right way.  BUK Information Industrialisation and Transformation   About :   - BSS IIT is providing services for IMCC, Information Management, Information Business, Controls Automation, and Risk & Finance. BSS IIT is part of wider IIT team catering services to all of these sub functional areas within IIT. We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds  - Responsible for significant, Institute-wide projects, typically with large budgets and sizeable staff, focused on meeting project commitments, including communications with sponsors stakeholders etc.; Spends the majority of time on project management responsibilities.  - Leads the design, testing, planning, and implementation of projects for systems that typically affect many users.  - Lead the development and implementation of a broad, coordinated set of plans and programs to meet the goals and priorities of the department.  - Cultivate contacts with vendor requirement planners or developers - to obtain information about future vendor developments in the functional area and to try to influence those developments in ways favorable to Barclays  - Participate in outside professional activities to maintain knowledge of developments in the field. Establish liaisons with universities and other comparable vendor users to keep abreast of the status of computing and communications activities at these institutions.  - Continuously improve project management toolkits and methodologies used within Barclays. Provide expertise and consulting to project managers/test Managers in the process of project management and in the softer skills of team dynamics, team building, and group motivation  - He/She must understand how testing fits into the organizational structure, in other words, clearly define its role within the organization. This is often accomplished by crafting a Mission Statement or a defined Testing Mandate. For example:   "To prevent, detect, record, and manage defects within the context of a defined release."  Key Accountabilities :  - Defining and implementing the role testing plays in the organizational structure.  - Defining the scope of testing (SIT / UAT) within the context of each release/delivery.  - Deploying and managing the appropriate testing framework to meet the testing mandate.  - Implementing and evolving appropriate measurements and metrics.   - To be applied to the Product under test.  - To be applied to the Testing Team.  - Planning, deploying and managing the testing effort for any given engagement/release.  - Managing and growing Testing assets required for meeting the testing mandate:   - Team Members  - Testing Tools  - Testing Process  - Retaining skilled testing personnel.  Stakeholder Management and Leadership :  - Understands who the client is and what the client's needs are; provides realistic expectations; establishes specific customer satisfaction standards and actively monitors client satisfaction.  - Knowledge of organization's methodology and tools.  - Partners with sponsors in understanding and creating opportunities and in making timely choices.  - Participates in strategy development.  - Provides leadership, vision and direction setting for both project team and business partners. Uses knowledge of mission and core strategy as a basis to develop specific  - Objectives and goals. Viewed as an expert, highly sought after resource, a key advisor to business partners.  - Establishes contacts, relationships and a network both inside and outside Barclays. Brings this array of resources to bear on improving project effectiveness.  - Promotes a diverse work environment through education, training, and professional development opportunities within the department.  - Creates an environment that encourages innovation and risk-taking.  - Acts decisively in critical situations or to circumvent a potential problem.  - Uses basic knowledge of general financial and accounting principles to understand and communicate how decisions affect the bottom line for the project, for IS&T and for MIT.  - Integrates own and others- projects into the culture of the organization.  - Decision-making and Problem Solving   - Develops improvements and innovations to enhance performance.  - Demonstrates superior collaboration skills and techniques which appropriately define alternate solutions; resolve conflicts; and create lasting, productive partnerships with clients/stakeholders  - Actively participates in cross-functional groups to solve problems across projects. Provides resources and organizational structure to promote collaborative initiatives.  - Utilizes a network of relationships to collect and disseminate information, build support, and secure buy-in for desired objectives.  - Projects a credible executive image when strategically communicating and planning for change.  - Fosters and manages productive relationships with executive level sponsors.  - Demonstrates superior interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, and negotiating skills.  - Ensures open communication across project teams.  - Handles broad-based, often complex, communication for internal and/or external audiences. Creates a forum and format for ongoing open communication within a functional area or among departments.  - Defuses emotionally charged situations and uses them to constructively build greater shared commitment to end goals. Promotes knowledge of team's work to gain support for ongoing and future initiatives.  - Regularly makes decisions and takes independent action on matters directly affecting strategic goals. Guides staff and project managers in learning and applying useful decision making approaches.  - Risk and Control Objective [This section is mandatory for all role profiles and must not be deleted]  Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.  Person Specification :  Personal attributes essential to performing role including competencies, expertise, knowledge, and experience. Note: experience requirements must not be in the form of years (minimum or otherwise).  Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications :   - Experience in all phases of Testing Lifecycle (Application, Database, ETL )  - Developing a test strategy and plan  - Developing test cases, Leading a testing team to execute test cases  - Managing defects uncovered Reporting on testing progress  - Obtaining sign-off on the testing phase  - Team Management, Stakeholder Manager, People Management   - knowledge of all aspects of the software engineering process  - experience in a wide variety of testing efforts, techniques, and tools  - people skills, planning, and management skills  - Experience in Test Automation   Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications :  - knowledge of the domain, system or application-under-test experience programming or managing programming teams  - Certification - Project Management, Testing  Purpose and Values :   - Barclays has a single cross-business Purpose for Barclays and five core Values which underpin it.   - Our Purpose is helping people achieve their ambitions in the right way. Put simply this is the answer to the question - What is Barclays for and it should guide our every action as employees.  Respect :   We respect and value those we work with and the contribution that they make.  Integrity :   We act fairly, ethically and openly in all we do.  Service :   We put our clients and customers at the center of what we do.  Excellence :   We use our energy, skills, and resources to deliver the best, sustainable results.  Stewardship :   We are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.

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Barclays -  Assistant Vice President - Testing 

Barclays -  Assistant Vice President - Testing  ,Job Description for Barclays -  Assistant Vice President - Testing  in Barclays in  Chennai for (10-14) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Barclays -  Assistant Vice President - Testing  in Barclays in  Chennai for (10-14) years of experience. Apply Now!