Lead Software Engineer - Backend Sdet

We know that people want great value combined with an excellent experience from a bank they can trust, so we launched our digital bank, Chase, to revolutionize mobile banking with seamless journeys that our customers love. We're already trusted by millions in the US and we're quickly catching up in the United Kingdom – but how we do things here is a little different. We're building the bank of the future from scratch, where you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact.

As a Lead Software Engineer - Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at JPMorgan Chase within the International Consumer Bank, you will be tasked with the creation and delivery of innovative, cutting-edge solutions through cloud-native microservices architecture applications. Utilizing the latest technologies and industry best practices, your role will encompass involvement in the design and architecture of these solutions, as well as a focus on all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Our Back-End Engineering team is at the heart of this venture, focused on getting a great banking experience into the hands of our customers. We're looking for people who have a curious mindset, thrive in a collaborative environment, and are passionate about new technology. By their nature, our people are also solution-oriented, commercially savvy and have a head for fintech. We work in teams that focus on specific products and projects. Depending on your strengths and interests, you'll have the opportunity to move between them and work in projects including fraud prevention, identity services, money transfers, debit and credit card payments, core banking, insurance products, reward campaigns, call-centre supporting innovations and more.

Job responsibilities:

• Being part of a squad and work on the sprint deliverables
• Developing and executing test strategies and test plans
• Automating tests and building sufficient and meaningful test coverage
• Developing from scratch or contributing to existing testing frameworks and test infrastructure
• Integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines
• Championing a quality and test mindset across unit, integration, functional, non-functional testing
• Developing metrics and trend analysis for testing activities
• Triaging, analyzing, and debugging issues and driving issues resolution with the team
• Initiating and completing test escape and root cause analysis, testing lessons learned
• Recommending test process improvements and defect prevention actions
• Working with teams in multiple locations in different time zones, review code PRs from the wider team

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineer in Test concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong programming skills in Java
• Experience building testing frameworks, tools, and automation
• Experience in Test automation using BDD (Behaviour-driven development ) principles
• Back-end test automation experience using REST Assured, HTTP clients, libraries for working with JSON files and other tools relevant for test automation of APIs
• Experience working with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Proven experience in all aspects of functional, integration and regression testing
• Clean coding and adherence to the Software Engineering best practices (DRY, SOLID, etc.) with a focus on scalable and maintainable test execution infrastructure
• Knowledge and experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience in automating deployment, releases and testing in continuous integration, continuous delivery pipelines
• Ability to work in a collaborative environment and coach other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation patterns that lead to high-quality maintainable solutions.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Java programming concepts and proficient advanced experience
• Experience in application development with Spring, Docker, and Kubernetes desirable
• Mobile test automation experience using tools such as Cucumber, Appium, and Detox
• Contracting test experience.
• Understanding of distributed systems and micro services architecture
• Understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Understanding of messaging frameworks (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.