Manager of Software Engineering - Automation

Job Description
This is your chance to change the path of your career and guide multiple teams to success at one of the world's leading financial institutions.
As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking - Payments Technology team, you lead multiple teams and manage day-to-day implementation activities by identifying and escalating issues and ensuring your team's work adheres to compliance standards, business requirements, and tactical best practices.
Job responsibilities

• Ability to lead complex solutions in designing automation frameworks, engineering approach and techniques to enable highly automated, consistent delivery of features with high quality
• Design, develop, and maintain scalable and efficient test automation frameworks and test architectures.
• Technical understanding of enterprise systems, accounting systems, logistics systems, financial systems, customer facing web/mobile applications, cloud computing and APIs platforms
• Demonstrated track record and interest in staying current with modern technologies, frameworks, integration and design patterns and related automation
• Ability to lead, design and implement proof of concepts and provide appropriate technical guidance to the wider team as needed in defining technical and automation approaches.
• Expertise with applying test engineering methodologies, test-driven development, Agile software delivery and operating in product-based delivery squads
• Expertise in cloud native, loosely coupled, microservices based platform, and related tools and best practices for automation is required. This will be a key contribution of this role to layout the automation approach that enables squad independence and agility without compromising reliability of delivery
• Experience leading test engineering activities for large enterprise systems, merchandising, accounting, financial and reporting & analytics platforms is required.
• Ability to operate with an automation first mindset to enable and enhance Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery capabilities
• Experience with 3rd party integrations and SaaS based functionality is a plus
• Ability to operate as an SDeT and enhance the level of automation to ensure quality of our customer facing experience
• Ability to lead as well as take on a hands-on role in all aspects of \\ test engineering while leading/directing/reviewing the work of the test engineers on the initiative.
• Participate in various POCs (Proof of Concept) to keep the automation framework and technology relevant and current to product offerings
• Collaborate effectively with software engineers, product owners, Test engineers and other stakeholders to ensure quality of product delivery
• Ability to define, automate and validate test cases to ensure requirements are met across all layers of the technology stack - UI/API/Services
• Creates a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect for the team members and prioritizes diverse representation
• Tracks critical success factors, metrics, KRIs, KPIs, business case, benefits and ROI s - collation / preparation, consolidation, analysis, tracking and management.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor or advanced degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years progressive experience in software engineering or Quality Engineering roles in high volume, highly available and scalable systems, POS, enterprise reporting experience
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in a Test Engineering role for consumer facing and backend applications with focus on API based platforms
• 8+ years progressive experience in API based systems & automated validation is required
• 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
• Good collaboration, communication & problem solving
• Experience with AWS platform & related technologies are a plus
• Experience with backend applications, clienteling systems, corresponding API platform related test engineering and automation frameworks in an Agile model is required.
• Experience with Retail/Ecommerce with high traffic customer facing web/mobile experience is a plus
• Experience managing technologists
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and expertise in technology disciplines

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience driving test engineering in retail environment 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.
• Expertise in react native testing would be a plus
• 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
• Tool & Frameworks Used: Java Script, Java, Spring, understanding of design patterns, Selenium, Cypress, TestNG, Rest API, Karate, Cucumber, Oracle, Dynamo DB, Rest Assured, Playwright