Lead Software Engineer - Test Automation

Job Description
We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.
As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking division, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's business objectives.
Job responsibilities

• Leads, designs, and implements proof of concepts while providing appropriate technical guidance to the wider team as needed in defining technical and automation approaches.
• Applies test engineering methodologies, test-driven development, Agile software delivery, and operate in product-based delivery squads.
• Requires expertise in cloud-native, loosely coupled, micro services - based platforms, and related tools and best practices for automation to layout the automation approach that enables squad independence and agility without compromising reliability of delivery.
• Leads test engineering activities for large and complex payments landscape, with required Payments Domain knowledge.
• Operates with an automation-first mindset to enable and enhance Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery capabilities.
• Operates as an SDeT and enhance the level of automation to ensure faster turn-around of testing initiatives.
• Participates in various Proof of Concept to keep the automation framework and technology relevant and current to product offerings.
• Collaborates effectively with software engineers, product owners, test engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure quality of product delivery.
• Defines, automates, and validates test cases to ensure requirements are met across all layers of the technology stack - UI/API/Services.
• Tracks critical success factors, metrics, KRIs, KPIs, business case, benefits, and ROI - collation, preparation, consolidation, analysis, tracking, and management.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
• Experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise along with experience with testing large and complex Payments landscape.
• Hands on progressive experience in software engineering or Quality Engineering roles in high volume, highly available and scalable systems
• Hands-on experience in a Test Engineering role for UI and backend applications with focus on API based platform.
• Experience in Tool & Frameworks : Java, understanding of design patterns, Java, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Rest API, Appium, Playwright, Cockroach DB, Gen AI tools
• Progressive experience in API based systems & automated validation along with good analytical skills and strong hands on programming experience
• Experience with Test Engineering concepts, methodologies, and ability to apply them as appropriate to the SDLC
• Object Oriented Design & Programming expertise is required to ensure design, implementation and maintainability of appropriate test frameworks and automation
• Experience with GKP / AWS platform & related technologies
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience driving test engineering in the Payments domain is highly preferred
• Must be a self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision on Test engineering strategy, architecture & frameworks
• Comfortable doing presentations to technical and non-technical audience or medium sized groups.
• Work in close interaction with developers in verification and validation of features in new and existing applications
• Effectively communicates in product squad & partner teams, business users, product owners and other stakeholders
• Research testing trends and self-motivated to stay current with industry best practices