Lead Software Engineer - UAT

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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 & Investment Bank payments technology, 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.

• Day-to-day responsibility of leading a test team which would involve daily supervision, allocation of duties, timely resolution of testing issues and regular communication with reporting manager Responsibility for the provision of accurate testing estimates within daily scrum calls.
• Requirements planning against an End-to-End test strategy, including test data, environments, defect management and test automation.
• Ability to effectively lead daily Scrum Calls and deputize for the Program Test Manager in fortnightly Delivery Working Group meetings. Ability to manage expectations of both stakeholders and teams supporting E2E test execution.
• Ability to manage expectations of both stakeholders and teams supporting E2E test execution. Identification of testing automation opportunities and test synergies within the Project.
• Responsible for completing a knowledge audit / matrix on each team member, documenting any gaps, taking steps to fill those gaps and ultimately ensuring that all UAT skills are transferable across the team.
• Escalating daily issues to the Programme Test Manager and managing expectations regarding testing and project timeline.
• Documentation and execution of test scenarios – identify specific scenarios and write test scripts using Business Driven Development for example Gherkin.
• Partner closely with Operations, Product and Technology groups. Taking responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of Testing defects and the re-testing process. Validation and presentation of Test Results for internal Sign-off.
• Strong organizational skills – ability to dynamically manage and oversee critical testing tasks accurately and to tight deadlines.
• Leverages enterprise-authorized AI coding assist tools within the work environment to improve code quality, delivery speed, and productivity across complex deliverables (e.g., code generation refactoring, unit test creation, documentation), while validating outputs through peer review, automated testing, and secure coding standards; contributes learnings and reusable patterns to improve broader team effectiveness.
• Applies knowledge of tools within the Software Development Life Cycle toolchain, including enterprise-authorized AI-assisted development and automation capabilities, to improve the value realized by automation.

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Experience at troubleshooting, resolving, and maintaining Cucumber / Gherkin, Java, Selenium or a similar tool is required.
• Functional knowledge of Payments domain and experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user stories and test scripts through to test execution.
• Utilization of test automation tools, to enable the efficient and timely E2E test execution, therefore previous experience of automated testing is required.
• Experienced in testing processes in order to define requirements, document user…