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Lead Software Engineer - Test Automation

JP Morgan

5 - 10 years

Bengaluru

Posted: 06/09/2025

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Job Description

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 JPMorgan Chase within the Commercial and Investment Banking division, you play a crucial role in an agile team dedicated to enhancing, building, and delivering trusted, market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable manner. As a core technical contributor, you are tasked with implementing critical technology solutions across multiple technical domains, supporting various business functions to achieve the firm's business objectives.

Job responsibilities

  • Leads, designs, and implements proof of concepts while providing appropriate technical guidance to the wider team as needed in defining technical and automation approaches.
  • Applies test engineering methodologies, test-driven development, Agile software delivery, and operate in product-based delivery squads.
  • Requires expertise in cloud-native, loosely coupled, micro services - based platforms, and related tools and best practices for automation to layout the automation approach that enables squad independence and agility without compromising reliability of delivery.
  • Leads test engineering activities for large and complex payments landscape, with required Payments Domain knowledge.
  • Operates with an automation-first mindset to enable and enhance Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery capabilities.
  • Operates as an SDeT and enhance the level of automation to ensure faster turn-around of testing initiatives.
  • Participates in various Proof of Concept to keep the automation framework and technology relevant and current to product offerings.
  • Collaborates effectively with software engineers, product owners, test engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure quality of product delivery.
  • Defines, automates, and validates test cases to ensure requirements are met across all layers of the technology stack – UI/API/Services.
  • Tracks critical success factors, metrics, KRIs, KPIs, business case, benefits, and ROI – collation, preparation, consolidation, analysis, tracking, and management.

 

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

  • Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
  • Experience leading technologists to manage and solve complex technical items within your domain of expertise along with experience with testing large and complex Payments landscape.
  • Hands on progressive experience in software engineering or Quality Engineering roles in high volume, highly available and scalable systems
  • Hands-on experience in a Test Engineering role for UI and backend applications with focus on API based platform.
  • Experience in Tool & Frameworks : Java, understanding of design patterns, Java, Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG, Rest API, Appium, Playwright, Cockroach DB, Gen AI tools
  • Progressive experience in API based systems & automated validation along with good analytical skills and strong hands on programming experience
  • Experience with Test Engineering concepts, methodologies, and ability to apply them as appropriate to the SDLC
  • Object Oriented Design & Programming expertise is required to ensure design, implementation and maintainability of appropriate test frameworks and automation
  • Experience with GKP / AWS platform & related technologies
  • Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
 
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
 
  • Experience driving test engineering in the Payments domain is highly preferred
  • Must be a self-starter, able to work with minimal supervision on Test engineering strategy, architecture & frameworks
  • Comfortable doing presentations to technical and non-technical audience or medium sized groups.
  • Work in close interaction with developers in verification and validation of features in new and existing applications
  • Effectively communicates in product squad & partner teams, business users, product owners and other stakeholders
  • Research testing trends and self-motivated to stay current with industry best practices

     

About Company

JP Morgan Chase & Co. is one of the world's largest and most prestigious financial institutions, headquartered in New York City. It operates in over 100 countries, providing a wide range of financial services including investment banking, asset management, commercial banking, and wealth management.The company serves corporations, governments, institutions, and individual clients, offering expertise in areas such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), securities trading, and credit management. Known for its global reach and financial strength, JP Morgan is a leader in innovation and sustainability within the banking industry.

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