Test Automation Software Engineer - Java

Job Description
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 Test Automation Software Engineer - Java at JPMorgan Chase within the Liquidity and Account Solutions team in Payments Technology, you are part of an agile team that works to enhance, design, deliver and test 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

• Drive the design, development and maintenance of robust, scalable test automation frameworks to validate a mission critical, low-latency and high-throughput complex liquidity calculation system
• Architect and build test automation solutions and reference services using Java language to validate software functionality and performance
• Intelligently apply test automation frameworks to enhance the test landscape to build, execute and maintain performance tests using tools like JMeter, Gatling and Blazemeter
• Executes software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
• Creates secure and high-quality production code and maintains algorithms that run synchronously with appropriate systems
• Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
• 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
• Works collaboratively as part of a global team
• Works closely with stakeholders to identify test requirements and strategies
• Conducts detailed peer reviews of code developed by colleagues
• Supports junior colleagues with the growth of their technical skills
• Provides out of hours application support and coordination of Production releases

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts or a related discipline and proficient applied experience
• Proficient in coding in one or more object-orientated languages, including Java 17+ with Sprint Boot
• Experience of creating thread-safe concurrent code in Java or another JVM based language
• Proficient in using SQL to query large relational datasets performantly
• Experience with Docker and running Production workloads on Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of the HTTP protocol and REST APIs
• Experience in applying appropriate data structures and algorithms to solve business and technical problems
• Hands-on practical experience in secure system design, application development, automated regression testing, performance profiling 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
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Solid understanding of agile methodologies such as Scrum, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies including Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD), Regression, Integration, Unit, Contract, Component, End to End and performance testing
• Expertise in application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
• Strong communication and teamwork skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and achieve common goals

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Hands-on experience another statically compiled language like Golang, Rust or C++
• Hands-on experience of building test automation frameworks for complex, distributed microservice architectures
• Hands-on experience of software performance testing using tools like Blazemeter, JMeter and Gatling
• Experience of API Functional Testing, Contract Testing and related tools (e.g. Postman and RestAssured)
• Experience using and designing schemas/data structures in resilient SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g. CockroachDB)
• Experience with gRPC
• Knowledge of data serialisation formats (e.g. Google Protocol Buffers and Parquet)
• Experience with caching technologies, e.g. Redis
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code software, e.g. Terraform
• Good knowledge of the Unix/Linux Operating System and system utilities
• Certified Kubernetes knowledge (e.g. CKAD)
• Certified public cloud technology knowledge (e.g. AWS)

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.
About the Team
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.