JPMorgan Software Engineer II - Test Automation 

United Kingdom, England 

268690505

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Job responsibilities

• Executes standard software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting
• Writes secure and high-quality code using the Java language with limited guidance
• Embedded within an agile software development scrum team, champions and owns the creation of test automation frameworks for critical financial systems
• Elicit high quality, stable and maintainable test cases from requirements documentation
• 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
• Participates in peer reviews of code and tests developed by colleagues, providing valuable suggestions and improvements
• 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 applied experience
• Demonstrable ability to code in one or more object-orientated languages including Java
• Knowledge of system and software quality assurance best practices and methodologies including Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Regression, Integration, Unit, Contract, Component, End to End and performance testing
• Significant experience with popular Java build tools and test frameworks including JUnit, Maven and Cucumber as well as experience in developing and maintaining test automation frameworks
• Keen interest in latest developments / technologies in the testing domain
• Hands-on practical experience in system design, application development, automated testing, application logging, monitoring 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
• Experience across the whole Software Development Life Cycle
• 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 8 and Spring Boot
• Exposure to application performance monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus, DynaTrace, Datadog )
• Experience in using and configuring BlazeMeter and JMeter performance test tools as well as producing analytical test reports
• Experience and interest in the design and creation of test automation environments
• Exposure to mocking external systems (e.g. Kafka and databases ) and testing asynchronous event driven applications
• Experience of Unix scripting and creating Docker images
• Exposure to containerized cloud technologies (e.g. Kubernetes )
• Experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Experience of maintaining software in a restricted Production environment
• Experience of UI and Contract testing frameworks (e.g. Cypress and Pact )
• Certified cloud knowledge (e.g. AWS Cloud Practitioner or CKAD)