Manager of Software Engineering - Test Automation

Job Description

This is your chance to change the path of your career and guide a team of technologists to success at one of the world's leading financial institutions.

As a Manager of Software Engineering at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Banking - Payments Technology team, you lead a team of talented SDET's and manage day-to-day implementation activities by identifying and escalating issues and ensuring your team's work adheres to compliance standards, business requirements, and tactical best practices.

Job responsibilities

• Leads, designs, and implements proof of concepts while providing appropriate technical guidance to the wider team as needed in defining technical and automation approaches.
• Applies test engineering methodologies, test-driven development, Agile software delivery, and operate in product-based delivery squads.
• Requires expertise in cloud-native, loosely coupled, micro services - based platforms, and related tools and best practices for automation to layout the automation approach that enables squad independence and agility without compromising reliability of delivery.
• Leads test engineering activities for large and complex payments landscape, with required Payments Domain knowledge.
• Operates with an automation-first mindset to enable and enhance Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery capabilities.
• Operates as an SDeT and enhance the level of automation to ensure faster turn-around of testing initiatives.
• Participates in various POCs (Proof of Concept) to keep the automation framework and technology relevant and current to product offerings.
• Collaborates effectively with software engineers, product owners, test engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure quality of product delivery.
• Defines, automates, and validates test cases to ensure requirements are met across all layers of the technology stack - UI/API/Services.
• Tracks critical success factors, metrics, KRIs, KPIs, business case, benefits, and ROI - collation, preparation, consolidation, analysis, tracking, and management.

• Formal training or certification on software engineering* concepts and 5+ years applied experience. In addition, demonstrated coaching and mentoring experience
• Experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise
• Hands on progressive experience in software engineering or Quality Engineering roles in high volume, highly available and scalable systems
• Hands-on experience in a Test Engineering role for UI and backend applications with focus on API based platforms
• Progressive experience in API based systems & automated validation along with good analytical skills and strong hands on programming experience
• Experience with Test Engineering concepts, methodologies, and ability to apply them as appropriate to the SDLC
• Object Oriented Design & Programming expertise is required to ensure design, implementation and maintainability of appropriate test frameworks and automation
• Experience with GKP / AWS platform & related technologies
• Experience with backend applications, corresponding API platform related test engineering and automation frameworks in an Agile model is required.
• Experience with testing large and complex Payments landscape.
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security

• Experience driving test engineering in the Payments domain is highly preferred
• Must be a self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision on Test engineering strategy, architecture & frameworks
• Comfortable doing presentations to technical and non-technical audience or medium sized groups.
• Work in close interaction with developers in verification and validation of features in new and existing applications
• Effectively communicates in product squad & partner teams, business users, product owners and other stakeholders
• Research testing trends and self-motivated to stay current with industry best practices
• Tool & Frameworks Used: Java, understanding of design patterns, Selenium, TestNG, Rest API, Cucumber, CRDB, Gen AI tools