Operations Automation - Vice President

Role Description: 

CPCS is currently looking for an experienced Operation Automation Lead to join the organization and play an integral role in the build out of the test / Process automation services required for accelerating change program delivery. This role will work in partnership with project managers, technology and testing teams to define, design and build test automation. The successful candidate will join a team focused on change delivery across products and help deliver test automation required for accelerating change program delivery.

Job Responsibilities:

• Oversees all technology components of diverse, complex automation projects, including project planning, execution, timing, functionality, quality and cost.
• Has shared responsibility for budget, policy formulation and planning.
• Contributes to formulation of strategies for project leadership and other functional areas.
• Evaluates subordinates' performance and makes decisions on pay increases, hiring, terminations and other personnel actions.
• Applies in-depth understanding of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues that have impact beyond own area.
• Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of how areas of IT project leadership collectively integrate to contribute to achieving business goals.
• Directly impacts the IT project leadership area through responsibility for delivery of end results and shared responsibility for budget management; accountable for resource planning.
• Ensures essential procedures are followed and contributes to defining standards.
• Persuades and influences others through communication and diplomacy skills; may negotiate with external parties.
• Understand data structures; Have market data knowledge and understanding of various vendors e.g. Bloomberg, Reuters, IDC.
• Design and implement an effective, best of breed solution to automate, capture, collate, store and maintain real time test data for purpose of validation, measuring progress and performance in change delivery.
• Define and implement data validation approach to ensure data solutions comply with internal and external regulations / standards and monitor data integrity, standard and consistency through iterative testing, especially where new features are being integrated.
• Own datasets for automation testing and those provided / used by vendors to test. Define runbooks for data migration from legacy sources to new solutions as required.

Required qualification, skills and capabilities:

1. Architecting, developing, and maintaining an innovative test automation environment including automation test framework design and development.
2. Experience with hands on automation testing, developing and executing automated test scripts using Automated Testing Tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin, Groovy, Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
3. Knowledge of agile development (preferably SAFe), test driven development advanced concepts of scrum.
4. Strong technical expertise in CSS Selectors and Xpath. Experience in developing UI using AngularJS , ReactJS.
5. Expert in working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins. Experience in integrating with applications deployed to AWS Cloud.
6. Define and map data relating to organizational roles. 
7. Identify ways to resolve data pain points and maintain data integrity and consistency across functions consuming the same data in pre-production and test environments; Support data problems in test environments. 
8. Define data automation for various internal and external (client) platforms. 
9. Knowledge of the Securities, Markets and Wholesale Payments businesses, client base, operations and systems.
10. Ability to work on multiple business demands, prioritize and deliver in a timely manner with high standards.
11. Able to write VB & Java scripting and Python / JAVA code. Knowledge of HTML5, AngularJS and/or ReactJS UI is essential.
12. Exposure to test environment management, release management practices, lean test strategies
13. Working proficiency of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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