Quality Automation Lead Software Engineer

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 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.
Job 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

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 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

About Us
Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America's households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.
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About the Team
Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.