Software Engineer II - Test Automation Engineer

J.P. Morgan; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a Software Engineer II in Bournemouth for the Corporate & Investment Bank - Markets Technology Team. You will enhance software components, develop automated test scripts, and collaborate effectively within an agile team to meet high-quality delivery standards. This is a unique opportunity to gain experience and advance your career in technology.

Qualifications

• Training or certification in software engineering concepts.
• Experience in Test Automation with Kotlin/Java and Selenium.
• Strong skills in Agile methodology and test planning.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts.
• Collaborate with teams to address bugs and ensure test coverage.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies and document processes.

Skills

Automation testing

Functional testing

Documentation

Collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Formal training in software engineering

Tools

Kotlin

Java

Selenium

IntelliJ

Jenkins

Oracle SQL

Job description

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 Corporate & Investment Bank - Markets Technology 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

• Develop a strong understanding of the business process and system workflow.

• Analyze and understand the existing automation framework.

• Design, develop and maintain automated test scripts for web and API applications using Kotlin, Java, Cucumber, Selenium as per functional requirements

• Partner with business and technology to enhance automated testing capabilities /Collaborate with cross functional and business teams to understand application requirements and ensure comprehensive test coverage.

• Understand the importance of the SDLC process; working to an agreed release schedule with high quality delivery

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for automation script, framework and process.

• Collaborate closely with Developers, BA and Product team to identify and address bugs and inconsistencies in software.

• Be responsible to handle multiple projects at the same time.

• Review and evaluate manual user acceptances tests and work across the team to provide automated solutions

• Carry out functional and regression testing

• Actively participate and contribute in agile ceremonies

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and expanding applied experience

• Strong Functional and Automation testing skills in both UI and API based applications.

• Practical experience in Test Automation using Kotlin/Java, Selenium, BDD, Gherkin, JUnit, Spring

• Practical experience with Database such as Oracle SQL

• Must have expertise in designing and building BDD/Cucumber Test Automation Framework.

• Integrate Automation suite with CI/CD pipeline and maintenance.

• Good exposure to tools like IntelliJ/Eclipse, Jenkins, Maven, BitBucket/Git.

• Good experience in Agile methodology with Test Planning, Test case creation, execution and defect tracking.

• Excellent problem solving; communication; documentation; organisation and collaboration skills to work effectively in multi-team environment.

• Experience with the agile software development framework, with a substantial experience in high pressure, time critical environments

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Financial industry knowledge.

• Good knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices.

• Knowledge of Java 17 onwards is added advantage

• Familiarity with Messaging queues is preferable

• Basic knowledge on Unix Commands and usage of Splunk

• Exposure to Python

• AWS Practioner Certification