Java / QA Software Engineer III

at  JPMorgan Chase Co

JOB DESCRIPTION

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level.
As a Java / QA Software Engineer III at JPMorgan Chase within the Electronic-Trading Risk Management group in Market Risk Technology, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team with a real focus on testing and QA, to help deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.
Market Risk is a product organization at JP Morgan, within the Risk Management Tower of Corporate Technology. The Market Risk group is responsible for calculating and reporting the risk of losses due to movements in market variables like prices and volatility

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
• Strong understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and software testing methodologies.
• Proficiency in test planning, test case design, and test execution.
• Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate test results and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Good knowledge of programming languages and tools to write test scripts, such as: Java, JavaScript, React, ExtJS, Cucumber, Cypress, Playwright.
• Attention to detail and ability to meticulously document test results and defects in tracking tools, such as Jira.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers and product managers.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to identify and troubleshoot issues.
• Knowledge of database concepts and SQL for data validation and verification.
• Experience with both manual and automated testing techniques and tools.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), such as Jenkins, Maven, Gradle
• Hands on experience in API testing using JMeter
• Experience with Observability or logging tools e.g. Dynatrace, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, log4j, CloudWatch, ELK

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS, CAPABILITIES, AND SKILLS

• Proficiency with API Test Automation using Blazemeter or JMeter and exposure to Java, Spring Boot and Microservices
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
• Understanding of Behavior Driven Development / Test Driven Development
• Exposure to cloud technologies
• Experience with Accessibility Testing (ADA Testing Web)
• Playwright UI Automation Experience
• Exposure to testing of Micro services based systems

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.

• Develop and execute comprehensive test plans, cases, and scripts to ensure software quality
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize testing requirements and achieve thorough test coverage
• Perform manual, automated and regression testing, track issues, and verify bug fixes, to ensure software stability and reliability
• Design and implement test automation frameworks to streamline testing processes
• Analyze and report test results, track defects, and improve testing methodologies
• Demonstrate ability to contribute to design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Gathers, analyzes, synthesizes, and develops visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets in service of continuous improvement of software applications and systems
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and uses these insights to drive improvements to coding hygiene and system architecture
• Contributes to software engineering communities of practice and events that explore new and emerging technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect