Software Engineer II-Automation

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 an Backend Test Automation Software Engineer II at JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial & Investment Bank Payments 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

• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Writes secure and high-quality code using the syntax of at least one programming language with limited guidance
• Designs, develops, codes, and troubleshoots with consideration of upstream and downstream systems and technical implications
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain to improve the value realized by automation
• Applies technical troubleshooting to break down solutions and solve technical problems of basic complexity
• Gathers, analyzes, and draws conclusions from large, diverse data sets to identify problems and contribute to decision-making in service of secure, stable application development
• Learns and applies system processes, methodologies, and skills for the development of secure, stable code and systems
• Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 2+ years applied experience

• Demonstrable ability to code in one or more object-oriented languages, including Java.

• Knowledge of quality assurance best practices and methodologies including BDD, TDD, Component, Integration, Regression and Performance testing

• Hands-on experience with popular test frameworks such as TestNG, Playwright, Cucumber, and testing framework patterns like Arrange Act Assert.

• Experience in writing automated integrated tests for complex systems with multiple microservice-based applications.

• Proficiency in using and configuring performance test tools like Gatling, JMeter and Blazemeter as well as producing analytical test reports.

• Hands-on experience in working with APIs, data interchange formats such as JSON and Protobuf , and tools like Postman, SOAPUI, RestAssured , or equivalent HTTP clients.

• Experience in building efficient SQL queries to support test automation

• Proficiency in advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis using robust log analysis and monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, DataDog and Dynatrace.

• Exposure to agile methodologies such as Scrum, CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security.

• Emerging knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.).

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Java 17+ and Spring Boot

• Experience with contract testing tools like Pact.

• Exposure to gRPC based or graphQL based services

• Exposure to messaging systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ as well as inter-process communication techniques.

• Familiarity with distributed SQL databases such as CockroachDB .