Sr Lead Software Engineer - Automation Engineering

Be an integral part of an agile team that's constantly pushing the envelope to enhance, build, and deliver top-notch technology products.

As a Senior Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Payments, Proprietary Wallets, and Lending Innovation organization, you will play a crucial role in enhancing, building, and delivering trusted market-leading technology products with a focus on ensuring application quality through automation tools and frameworks. Your contributions will drive significant business impact as you apply deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle diverse challenges across multiple technologies and applications.

Job responsibilities

• Develops and implements automated testing standards and best practices across a broad range of applications within the organization.
• Collaborates with central testing frameworks teams, architects, engineering directors, and senior application engineers to integrate business and technology requirements into automated testing approaches.
• Provides regular technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
• Drives the adoption of best practices, ensuring high standards of quality, security, and efficiency are maintained across all projects.
• Develops tools and practices for ensuring adherence to testing standards
• Creates and manages POCs to evaluate the feasibility and impact of new test automation technologies and methodologies, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements.
• Leads AI innovation initiatives by identifying opportunities to integrate artificial intelligence into processes to ensure the quality of application code and implementations, enhancing the firm's technological capabilities.
• Explores and develops strategies for implementing cutting-edge test automation technologies across the organization, ensuring alignment with the firm's long-term objectives.
• Advises cross-functional teams on matters within the domain of expertise.
• Creates durable, reusable tools that are leveraged across teams and functions.
• Influences leaders and senior stakeholders across business, product, and technology teams
• Contributes to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with 10+ years of applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Expertise in Java programming language and test automation frameworks.
• Strong skillset in AI, particularly in automating testing processes.
• Advanced knowledge of software application development and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in multiple technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, Web UI, etc.).
• Experience applying expertise and new methods to determine solutions for complex technology problems in one or more technical disciplines
• Experience with cloud technologies and their integration into testing tools and processes.
• Ability to present and effectively communicate test automation strategies with Senior Leaders and Executives.
• Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
• Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.

• Architecture experience 
• Application development and production deployment and monitoring
• AWS experience

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve