Lead UAT & Payments Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jersey City (NJ)

On-site

USD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Lead Software Engineer to join the Commercial & Investment Bank payments technology group. You will lead a testing team, design end-to-end test strategies, and drive automation using Cucumber, Gherkin, Java, and Selenium.

This role emphasizes collaboration with Operations, Product and Technology while ensuring quality and timely delivery. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software testing, strong problem-solving, and excellent communication

Qualifications

Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
Experience at troubleshooting, resolving, and maintaining Cucumber / Gherkin, Java, Selenium or a similar tool is required.
Functional knowledge of Payments domain and experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution.
Utilization of test automation tools, to enable the efficient and timely E2E test execution, therefore previous experience of automated testing is required.
Experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution. Ability to work with the minimum of supervision on day-to-day activities.
Strong organizational skills – ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
Excellent attention to detail so errors can be prevented and redundancies / opportunities highlighted.
Ability to keep sight of the overall context and remain centered on the strategic picture, identify areas of opportunity for process improvement and build out recommendation to proceed.
Ability to use effective systemic data driven reporting to support program reporting.
Very strong communication skills with the ability to provide clear and succinct verbal updates on their work to team members, colleagues, senior leads, executives and clients.
Ability to liaise effectively between lines of business with empathy and understanding to achieve the common and strategic goal as a team. Actively contributes to program updates, Project and team meetings.

Responsibilities

Day-to-day responsibility of leading a test team which would involve daily supervision, allocation of duties, timely resolution of testing issues and regular communication with reporting manager.
Requirements planning against an End-to-End test strategy, including test data, environments, defect management and test automation.
Ability to effectively lead daily Scrum Calls and deputize for the Program Test Manager in fortnightly Delivery Working Group meetings.
Ability to manage expectations of both stakeholders and teams supporting E2E test execution.
Identification of testing automation opportunities and test synergies within the Project.
Responsible for completing a knowledge audit / matrix on each team member, documenting any gaps, taking steps to fill those gaps and ultimately ensuring that all UAT skills are transferable across the team.
Escalating daily issues to the Programme Test Manager and managing expectations regarding testing and project timeline.
Documentation and execution of test scenarios – identify specific scenarios and write test scripts using Business Driven Development for example Gherkin.
Partner closely with Operations, Product and Technology groups. Taking responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of Testing defects and the re-testing process. Validation and presentation of Test Results for internal Sign-off.
Strong organizational skills – ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables.
Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.