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Lead Software Engineer - Test Automation

JPMorgan Chase
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 11/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/18/2026

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As a Lead Software Engineer - Test Automation at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting 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 

     

Required qualifications, capabilties and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years applied experience
  • Senior level experience as a QA Automation Test Engineer with full understanding of SDLC, QA and Defect Lifecycle.
  • Strong experience in developing test automation scripts with object oriented programming  languages such as Java using Eclipse/IntelliJ IDE
  • Hand-on experience with Java and  Selenium
  • Upgrade/create new reusable tests framework for API and UI using Cucumber, Selenium, Java as per functional requirements
  • Exposure to middleware technologies and Messaging queues and database
  • Experience using continuous integration tools such as Jenkins
  • Experience in UI, Database and API testing
  • Implement end-to-end automated tests to run across multiple applications
  • Experience in working with agile team and knowledgeable in agile methodology and Jira
  • Sound working experience of Java, Selenium, API/REST Services.

     

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Experience managing team - Set clear direction, drive performance and contribute to process efficiencies
  • Sound SQL and DB knowledge (Oracle, Cassandra) preferred
  • Experience in developing In-Sprint Test Automation scripts is an added advantage
  • Experience in latest cucumber based frameworks is an added advantage

 

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