Software Engineer III - FX Front Office - QA Automation Engineer

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

Job summary

A global financial services firm is looking for a Software Engineer III in Bournemouth to join their Corporate and Investment Bank team. The role involves designing and delivering technology products, enhancing test automation frameworks, and supporting CI/CD platforms. Candidates should possess strong coding skills in multiple languages and experience in automation tools. This position offers opportunity for professional growth within an agile environment.

Qualifications

• Proficient in coding in one or more languages.
• Ability to manage stakeholders at various levels of seniority.
• Experience with automation and testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance automated tests and frameworks.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Produce architecture and design artifacts for QA automation.

Skills

Proficient in coding in one or more languages (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript)

Experience designing and implementing test automation frameworks

Experience with testing tools such as Selenium WebDriver

Experience writing test automation scripts using BDD tools

Education

Formal training or certification on Software Engineering or Quality Automation

Tools

Git

GitLab

JUnit

Job description

Job Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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
  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

Qualifications

• 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

• 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

Company Overview

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. 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.