Software Engineer II - Test Automation, Payments

You’re ready to gain the skills and experience needed to grow within your role and advance your career — and we have the perfect software engineering opportunity for you.

As a Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Bank's Payments Tech Team, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, and deliver the software components of the firm’s state-of-the-art technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As an emerging member of a software engineering team, you execute software solutions through the design, development, and technical troubleshooting of multiple components within a technical product, application, or system, while gaining the skills and experience needed to grow within your role.

Job responsibilities

• Lead a test team which would involve daily supervision, allocation of duties, timely resolution of testing issues and regular communication with reporting manager, responsibility for the provision of accurate testing estimates within daily scrum calls.
• Plan against an End-to-End test strategy, including test data, environments, defect management and test automation.
• Lead daily scrum calls and deputize for the Program Test Manager in fortnightly delivery working group meetings.
• Manage expectations of both stakeholders and teams supporting E2E test execution.
• Identify testing automation opportunities and test synergies within the Project.
• Complete a knowledge audit / matrix on each team member, documenting any gaps, taking steps to fill those gaps and ultimately ensuring that all UAT skills are transferable across the team.
• Escalate daily issues to the Program Test Manager and managing expectations regarding testing and project timeline.
• Document and execute test scenarios – identify specific scenarios and write test scripts using Business Driven Development for example Gherkin.
• Partner closely with Operations, Product and Technology groups.
• Take responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of Testing defects and the re-testing process.
• Validate and presentation of Test Results for internal Sign-off, manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• Expertise at troubleshooting, resolving, and maintaining Python Code, experienced in using Java, Selenium or a similar tool is required.
• Functional knowledge of Payments domain and experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution.
• Utilization of test automation tools, to enable the efficient and timely E2E test execution, therefore previous experience of automated testing is required.
• Experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution.
• Strong organizational skills – ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
• Skilled at problem solving, ability to scope and provide structure to complex issues, rapidly learn unfamiliar processes and provide insightful and timely remediation.
• Excellent attention to detail so errors can be prevented and redundancies / opportunities highlighted, very strong communication skills with the ability to provide clear and succinct verbal updates on their work to team members, colleagues, senior leads, executives and clients.
• Ability to keep sight of the overall context and remain centered on the strategic picture, identify areas of opportunity for process improvement and build out recommendation to proceed.
• Ability to use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting.
• Ability to liaise effectively between lines of business with empathy and understanding to achieve the common and strategic goal as a team, actively contributes to program updates, Project and team meetings.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills  

• Experienced in using Business Driven Development / Test Driven Development test methodology or test case automation. 
• Identifying opportunities to accelerate and synergies testing processes for assigned projects and syndicate the information to other team members to validate prior to implementation.
• Relevant testing experience within the Financial Services industry supporting multiple LOB’s delivering in a highly complex, pressurized and high volume environment.
• Advanced numeracy and Microsoft skills. PowerPoint / Pitch Pro skills - able to create professional slides and structure presentations with minimal input and need for secondary review.
• Expertise in Agile project delivery methodology and skills to learn and work with evolving methodologies.
• Ability to work with the minimum of supervision on day-to-day activities.