Software Engineer III, SDET - Test Automation

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. 

As an Automation Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team with a real focus on testing and QA, to help deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out 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.
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years of applied experience
• Experience in automated testing of APIs and UI testing using RestAssured, Selenium or similar technology. 
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and software testing methodologies. Proficiency in test planning, test case design, and test execution
• Good knowledge of programming languages and tools to write test scripts, such as: Java, JavaScript, React, Cucumber, Cypress, Playwright
• Attention to detail and ability to meticulously document test results and defects in tracking tools, such as Jira
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers and product managers
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and troubleshoot issues
• Knowledge of database concepts and SQL for data validation and verification
• Experience with manual, automated testing techniques and tools and experience in API testing using JMeter or Blazemeter
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), such as Jenkins, Maven, Gradle

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Exposure to Spring Boot and Microservices 
• Experience with Observability or logging tools e.g. Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, log4j, CloudWatch, ELK
• Understanding of Behavior Driven Development / Test Driven Development
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Experience with Accessibility Testing (ADA Testing Web)
• Playwright, Selenium, or similar UI Automation Experience
• Exposure to testing of Micro services based systems