Software Engineer III - Test Automation

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial institution is seeking an Automation Software Engineer III to enhance and deliver market-leading technology products. The successful candidate will advocate for quality and testing while managing complex projects. Strong experience in Java and Selenium is essential, along with proficiency in test automation and agile methodologies. This role provides opportunities for continuous improvement in software applications and requires a hands-on approach to problem-solving within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification on QA Test Automation concepts.
• Strong experience in Java and Selenium.
• Ability to develop test automation scripts with object-oriented programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Advocate for quality and testing with hands-on QE and test automation.
• Manage large projects with high complexity and visibility.
• Identify hidden problems and drive improvements to coding hygiene.

Skills

Quality Assurance testing

Test automation

Agile methodologies

Object-oriented programming

Java

Selenium

API testing

Database knowledge

Tools

Eclipse

IntelliJ IDE

Jenkins

Cucumber

Oracle

Cassandra

Job description

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible.

As an Automation Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, youare 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

• Advocates for quality and testing, requiring hands‑on QE and test automation experience, while demonstrating strong leadership skills.
• Adapts quickly to changing business needs in a fast‑paced environment driven by market pressures.
• Manages large projects with high complexity, risk, and visibility.
• Contributes expertise in object‑oriented design, utilizes test frameworks for UI and API, applies agile development methodology, and demonstrates an understanding of and exposure to all aspects of the project life cycle.
• 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, capabilities and skills

• Formal training or certification on QA Test Automation concepts and proficient applied experience
• 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.
• Overall knowledge in middleware technologies, 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.