
Lead Software Engineer - Test Automation
at J.P. Morgan
Posted 15 days ago
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- Not specified
- City
- Chicago
- Country
- United States
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Lead QA automation engineer responsible for designing and executing test strategies, developing reusable automation frameworks, and ensuring quality across UI, API and database layers. Works as a core technical contributor on an agile team, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize testing, track defects, and verify fixes. Implements and maintains automation using Java, Selenium, Cucumber and CI tools (e.g. Jenkins), and analyzes test data to drive continuous improvement. May contribute to technical design, troubleshooting and process improvements across multiple systems.
Location: Chicago, IL, United States
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As a Lead Software Engineer - Test Automation at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank, 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
- Develop and execute comprehensive test plans, cases, and scripts to ensure software quality
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize testing requirements and achieve thorough test coverage
- Perform manual, automated and regression testing, track issues, and verify bug fixes, to ensure software stability and reliability
- Design and implement test automation frameworks to streamline testing processes
- Analyze and report test results, track defects, and improve testing methodologies
- Demonstrate ability to contribute to design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
Required qualifications, capabilties and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Senior level experience as a QA Automation Test Engineer with full understanding of SDLC, QA and Defect Lifecycle.
- Strong experience in developing test automation scripts with object oriented programming languages such as Java using Eclipse/IntelliJ IDE
- Hand-on experience with Java and Selenium
- Upgrade/create new reusable tests framework for API and UI using Cucumber, Selenium, Java as per functional requirements
- Exposure to middleware technologies and Messaging queues and database
- Experience using continuous integration tools such as Jenkins
- Experience in UI, Database and API testing
- Implement end-to-end automated tests to run across multiple applications
- Experience in working with agile team and knowledgeable in agile methodology and Jira
Sound working experience of Java, Selenium, API/REST Services.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience managing team - Set clear direction, drive performance and contribute to process efficiencies
- Sound SQL and DB knowledge (Oracle, Cassandra) preferred
- Experience in developing In-Sprint Test Automation scripts is an added advantage
- Experience in latest cucumber based frameworks is an added advantage
Carry out critical tech solutions across multiple technical areas as an integral part of an agile team




