Lead Software Development Engineer in Test

As a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) at JPMorganChase within Asset Wealth Management, 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., * Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems

• Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
• Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
• Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
• Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
• Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
• Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks for trading systems covering UI, API, and microservices layers
• Ensure quality across low-latency applications, FIX protocol-based APIs, and messaging middleware (Kafka, MQ, or GraphQL)
• Integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins for continuous validation and deployment
• Execute performance testing processes, collaborating with teams across Lines of Business (LOB) for joint performance testing efforts to validate latency, throughput, and stability under peak market load

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
• Advanced in one or more programming language(s)
• Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
• Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
• Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
• Practical cloud native experience
• Experience with BDD frameworks and repository management

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Jest, JUnit, Pytest, JMeter, BlazeMeter, Karate, PactFlow, Cucumber, BDD/TDD, and similar
• Experience with Unit, Component, Contract, Integration, Acceptance, End-to-End, Mutation, Resiliency, and Performance testing
• Experience with Jenkins, Harness, Spinnaker, GitHub, and similar
• In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and financial products (Equity, Fixed Income, Global Liquidity, OTC instruments)

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., J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management delivers industry-leading investment management and private banking solutions. Asset Management provides individuals, advisors and institutions with strategies and expertise that span the full spectrum of asset classes through our global network of investment professionals. Wealth Management helps individuals, families and foundations take a more intentional approach to their wealth or finances to better define, focus and realize their goals.