Junior Software Developer jobs in United Kingdom

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