Sr Lead Software Engineer - SDET

We know that people want great value combined with an excellent experience from a bank they can trust, so we launched our digital bank, Chase UK, to revolutionise mobile banking with seamless journeys that our customers love. We're already trusted by millions in the US and we're quickly catching up in the UK – but how we do things here is a little different. We're building the bank of the future from scratch, channelling our start-up mentality every step of the way – meaning you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact. 

Our team is at the heart of building this new venture, focused on developing offerings that put the customer at the center. We have created a new organization and we are looking for solution-oriented, commercially minded, customer-focused test engineers, used to working in an agile environment who want to be a part of building something new from the ground up within a diverse and inclusive team. 

Culture is as important to us and we are looking for intellectually curious, new technology passionate individuals who would like to expand their skills whilst working on a new exciting venture for the firm. Your work will have a massive impact, both on us as a company, as well as our clients and our business partners around the world. This is a hands-on software developer in test role that can help our teams deliver enhanced quality by ensuring the delivery of effective and efficiency test automation within a green-field intiatives. We leverage the latest technologies and the best industry practices to deliver an end-to-end cutting-edge solution to our clients.

Job responsibilities

• Providing technical quality and testing engineering leadership, cross-functional coordination, and inter/intra team communications to deliver outstanding quality 
• Work closely with all teams across the business to get high-quality products and features through the software delivery lifecycle (build, test, and release on time). Take responsibility for identifying key risks and working with multiple teams to define an overall test strategy
• Communicating to a wide range of stakeholders and client teams, aligning them to the test strategy/plan and ensuring shared understanding of desired outcomes.
• Working with (and leading) teams in multiple locations in different time zones, review code PRs from the wider team. Being part of a tribe as the point of contact for quality and test engineering chapter
• Responsible for the quality and testing engineering improvement roadmap for the tribe
• Working with and across tribes/chapters to deliver test strategies and improvements and co-ordinate and lead tribe test resources
• Automating tests and building sufficient and meaningful test coverage. Developing from scratch or contributing to existing testing frameworks and test infrastructure 
• Development and optimisation of test automated within CI/CD pipelines. Help to define and use software quality data to identify risks to delivery
• Championing a quality and test assist mindset across unit, integration, functional, non-functional testing. Developing metrics and trend analysis for testing activities
• Triaging, analysing, and debugging issues and driving issues resolution with the team and initiating and completing test escape and root cause analysis, testing lessons learned
• Recommending test process improvements and defect prevention actions and contributing to the wider quality improvement initiatives and technical radar

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Strong programming skills in Java (additional experience in Javascript is a bonus)
• Experience building and optimizing testing frameworks, tools, and automation
• Test automation using BDD practices using supporting test automation frameworks 
• Mobile test automation using tools such as Cucumber, Appium, and Detox desirable
• Mobile application and mobile browser testing on physical devices and simulators running on both iOS and Android platforms desirable
• Back-end test automation experience using REST Assured, HTTP clients, libraries for working with JSON files and other tools relevant for test automation of APIs desirable
• Understanding of distributed systems and experience working with cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) desirable.
• Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) desirable
• Experience with (incl. setting up and troubleshooting) CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with non-functional testing e.g. accessibility, performance testing etc.
• Clean coding and adherence to the software engineering best practices (DRY, SOLID, etc.) with a focus on scalable and maintainable test execution infrastructure

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.