Senior Automation Engineer - Lead Software Engineer

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As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Consumer & Community Banking Wealth Management, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
• Writes automation test scripts for integration and end to end level for each module using (Rest Assured, Selenium, Cypress, Java, Cucumber)
• Writes and reviews automation scriptsfor Web-Services Testing (SOAP and REST services using Rest assured and Java based framework)
• Works closely with product team to prepare test data requirements, document and proactively work with different teams to setup the data
• Identifies hidden problems and patterns in the automation pipeline that drives improvements for software deployment in an Agile environment
• Coordinates and orchestrates end to end testing needs involving large numbers of teams across different Lines of Business in an Agile environment

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Expert in writing automation test script for integration and end to end level for each module utilizing (Rest Assured, Selenium, Cypress, Java, Cucumber)
• Expert in scripting for Web-Services Testing (SOAP and REST services using Rest assured and Java based framework)
• Experience in end to end testing requirements for the products involving multiple applications and systems in an agile environment
• Strong in preparing test plans, test data requirements and test strategies with product teams
• Experience in identifying hidden problems and patterns within the automation pipeline driving improvements for software development
• Strong leadership experience in coordinating and delivering end to end testing needs involving large numbers of teams across different Lines of Business

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiar with tools (PACT and Spring Cloud Contract for API testing)
• Familiar with designing and building infrastructure tools for managing and storing test data
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
• Practical cloud native experience (AWS preferred)
• Experience with Service and Data virtualization to innovate solutions for scrum teams across products to achieve end to end testing

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 all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These b