What are the responsibilities and job description for the Incentive Compensation User Acceptance Tester - Senior Associate position at JPMorgan Chase?
We are seeking a Senior Associate to join JPMorgan Chase's Business Aligned Incentive Administration team!
As an Incentive Compensation User Acceptance Tester - Senior Associate within the Business Aligned Incentive Administration team, you will be responsible for testing the iComp applications used to administrate and pay the business aligned incentives across JPMorgan Chase.
Job responsibilities:
- Analyze Business and Functional requirements, identifying test scenarios based on business process
- Lead test planning sessions and facilitate working groups with stakeholders to define acceptance criteria, review test scenarios, and gain sign-off prior to each release cycle
- Drive cross-functional collaboration by serving as a key point of contact between Incentive Administration LOB teams, technology partners, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment on testing scope, timelines, and quality standards
- Oversee and coordinate end-to-end UAT activities across multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring proper resource allocation, risk identification, and timely escalation of blockers or defects
- Write test scenarios and test scripts for each initiative, and review the scenarios/scripts with key stakeholders for feedback and alignment
- Troubleshoot, triage and communicate defects found, and verify fixes align with expectations
- Prepare files/event handling/new hires in proper format in a timely manner to execute test cases
- Load requirements and test scripts to qTest, link requirements and scripts, pull in test scripts to the proper Test Execution folders for each release
- Develop and implement automated test scripts for regression testing, ensuring thorough validation and quality assurance; execute these scripts in alignment with each monthly release cycle
- Champion continuous improvement efforts within the testing practice by identifying process gaps, recommending enhancements to testing frameworks, and driving adoption of automation and standardized procedures
- Lead, mentor and support fellow testers across the team, providing guidance on testing best practices, tools, and UAT processes while fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment
Required qualifications, skills and capabilities:
- 5 or more years of experience in quality assurance or user acceptance testing
- 2 years of experience in leading testing projects and scope
- Experience of testing lifecycle with Agile methodology
- Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design and test execution
- Experience with writing, developing, and executing test strategy, test plans & test cases
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to present test planning and findings to the LOBs, IA and Management
- Strong troubleshooting skills with various applications and data files
- Proven ability to meet timelines without sacrificing work quality and attention to detail
- Proven ability to work independently
- Proven ability to build strong partnerships, collaborative A team player
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Incentive Compensation tools or Oracle HCM/ICM Cloud experience a plus
- Experience with Incentive plans for CWM, Home Lending, Commercial Term Lending, US Funds, Private Client Relationship Manager, Consumer banking a plus
- Experience with systems conversion Test planning and test execution a plus
- Intermediate Knowledge of testing tools qTest, Jira and Confluence tools
To be eligible for this role, you must be authorized to work in the United States. We do not offer any type of employment-based immigration sponsorship for this role. Likewise, JPMorgan Chase & Co. will not provide any assistance or sign any documentation in support of any other form of immigration sponsorship or benefit, including optional practical training (OPT) or curricular practical training (CPT).