You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.  

As a Test Automation Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Global Liquidity and Account Solutions team in Payments Technology, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, deliver and test the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.  

Job responsibilities  

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable test automation frameworks for a complex, high-performance liquidity calculation system.
• Architect and build test automation solutions and reference services using Java to validate software functionality and performance.
• Apply test automation frameworks intelligently to enhance and execute the overall test landscape.
• Execute software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting, thinking beyond routine approaches.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for complex applications, ensuring software code meets design constraints.
• Gather, analyze, and visualize large, diverse data sets to drive continuous improvement of software systems.
• Proactively identify hidden problems and patterns in data to improve coding hygiene and system architecture.
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and participate in events exploring new technologies.
• Collaborate as part of a global team and conduct detailed peer code reviews.
• Work closely with stakeholders to define test requirements and strategies.
• Support junior colleagues’ technical skill development and provide out-of-hours application support and production release coordination.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills  

• Formal training or certification in software engineering or a related discipline, with strong applied experience.
• Proficient in object-oriented programming, especially Java 17+ with Spring Boot.
• Skilled in creating thread-safe concurrent code in Java or other JVM-based languages.
• Proficient in using SQL to efficiently query large relational datasets.
• Solid understanding of HTTP protocol and REST APIs.
• Experienced in applying appropriate data structures and algorithms to solve technical problems.
• Hands-on experience in secure system design, application development, automated regression testing, performance profiling, and operational stability.
• Practical experience with test frameworks like TestNG, Playwright, Cucumber, and testing patterns such as Arrange Act Assert.
• Experience building frontend automation frameworks using tools like Playwright or Selenium.
• Skilled in API Functional Testing, Contract Testing, and tools such as Postman and RestAssured.
• Strong knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle, agile methodologies (Scrum, CI/CD), application resiliency, security, and software quality assurance practices including BDD, TDD, and various testing types

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Hands-on experience of building test automation frameworks for complex, distributed microservice architectures 

• Hands-on experience of software performance testing using tools like Blazemeter, JMeter and Gatling 

• Experience using and designing schemas/data structures in resilient SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. Cassandra DB) 

• Good knowledge of the Unix/Linux Operating System and system utilities 

• Certified public cloud technology knowledge (e.g. AWS)