Software Engineer III - Automation ( SDET)

Job Description
We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Software Engineer III - Test Automation at JPMorganChase within the Consumer and community banking- Wealth Management - Self Directred Investment, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.
Job responsibilities

• Leads, designs and implement proof of concepts while providing appropriate technical guidance to the wider team as needed in defining technical and automations approaches.
• Test Engineering methodologies, test drive 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.
• Participates in various POCs (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 3+ years applied experience
• Hands on progressive experience in software engineering or Quality Engineering roles in high volume, highly available and scalable systems & experience in a Test Engineering role for UI and backend applications with focus on API based platforms
• 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 backend applications, corresponding API platform related test engineering and automation frameworks in an Agile model is required.
• Experience with testing large and complex Payments landscape & Experience with GKP / AWS platform & related technologies
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security & Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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.
• Tool & Frameworks Used: Java, understanding of design patterns, Selenium, TestNG, Rest API, Cucumber, CRDB, Gen AI tools Familiarity with modern front-end technologies