Quality Automation Lead Software Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Columbus, OH

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About The Position

We have an opportunity to impact your career and provide an adventure where you can push the limits of what's possible. As a Lead Software Engineer at JPMorganChase within the Consumer & Community Banking Deposits 2.0, you are an integral part of an agile team that works to enhance, build, and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. As a core technical contributor, you are responsible for conducting critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm's business objectives.

Requirements

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Strong coding proficiency in Java, Python, or equivalent languages
• Deep expertise in test automation frameworks, for backend APIs and stream services, integrating coverage and quality metrics
• Solid understanding of contract testing, mocking frameworks, service virtualization, and automation best practices
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and toolsets (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab), SDLC, and continuous delivery methods
• Advanced knowledge of agile methodologies, application resiliency, security, shift-left quality enablement
• Experience creating scalable microservices using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka for financial services; utilizing CI/CD toolsets (including GIT, Jenkins, JUnit, and Mockito) to develop high-quality software
• Hands-on leadership experience with varying levels of Software Engineers in an agile environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience in AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Lambda, Aurora Postgres, Route53, ELB, API Gateway), Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and practical cloud-native experience
• Experience with AI/ML concepts or tools as applied to software quality, such as AI-driven test generation, defect prediction, or analytics
• Experience working in a very large Financial or Banking services environment

Responsibilities

• Owns the governance of quality coverage across all scrum teams, including unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end testing
• Defines and monitors quality metrics such as coverage percentage, defect leakage, and automation effectiveness
• Provides technical guidance and conducts code/test reviews to ensure depth and completeness of test coverage
• Acts as the bridge between development and quality enablement, driving consistency and best practices across teams
• Maintains and evolves test frameworks, tools, and CI/CD quality gates to support robust automation utilizing
• Analyzes codebases and pipelines to identify gaps in test coverage and improve testability and observability
• Integrates static analysis, code coverage, and test reporting tools into the delivery pipeline
• Collaborates across Tech teams to maintain quality gates in CI/CD and reviews automation ROI to guide teams toward effective, maintainable coverage
• Fosters a team culture of diversity, inclusion, and respect, supporting collaboration and professional growth in quality initiatives

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees