Software Engineer III - FX Front Office - QA Automation Engineer

JPMorganChase; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is looking for a Software Engineer III to join their agile team. You will design and deliver innovative technology products, focus on quality assurance automation solutions, and support critical technology implementations. Ideal candidates will have experience in coding, test automation frameworks, and automation tools. This role offers opportunities for career development in a diverse and inclusive environment.

Qualifications

• Strong exposure to debugging production issues.
• Experience in performance test execution using tools like JMeter.
• Understanding of application resiliency and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance automated tests and frameworks.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to test design and testing priorities.

Skills

Proficient in coding in one or more languages

Experience designing test automation frameworks

Experience with automation and testing tools

Ability to manage stakeholders

Experience with BDD tools

Education

Formal training or certification in Software Engineering or Quality Automation

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

Postman

Git

Job description

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Corporate and Investment Bank, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market‑leading technology products, including quality assurance automation solutions, in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. You are responsible for implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions to support the firm’s business objectives. Working on the ‘Transact’ application, you will gain knowledge of front‑to‑back foreign exchange processing, from order and trade execution through to confirmation and settlement.

• Build and enhance automated tests and frameworks across the Transact UI and back end services
• Integrate automated tests and frameworks into CI/CD pipelines
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for QA automation, ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• Contribute to test design, testing priorities, test status tracking within an agile development environment
• Contribute to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Add to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on Software Engineering or Quality Automation and proficient applied experience.
• Ability to manage stakeholders at various levels of seniority
• Proficient in coding in one or more languages (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript)
• Experience designing and implementing robust, scalable, and reusable test automation frameworks for web, API, and microservices
• Experience with automation and testing tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Postman, SoapUI, REST Assured, or Karate Framework
• Experience writing test automation scripts using BDD tools (e.g. Cucumber, Gherkin) and working within Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Ability to support and evolve CI/CD platforms for continuous testing, with hands‑on experience using Git, GitLab runners, or equivalent tools

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Familiarity with modern front‑end technologies
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Experience in performance test execution using tools like JMeter
• Strong exposure to debugging production issues by checking application and monitoring logs
• Knowledge of SQL
• Understanding of application resiliency and security best practices
• Experience with open‑source UI test tools and frameworks

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first‑class business in a first‑class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long‑term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About the Team

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.