Lead Software Engineer - Mobile QA

We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you to take your software engineering career to the next level. 

As a Lead Software Engineer  - QA at JPMorgan Chase within the mobile authentication team, 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

• Demonstrates knowledge of multiple complex applications and provides subject matter expertise to set direction and create test strategies and test plans for more than one project and/or application   
• Participates in cross-functional discussions to review the impact of application changes from both internal and external interfaces.   
• Identifies and implements areas for improving efficiency, shortening of test cycles, and automation of test scripts
• Communicating effectively with business units, IT Development, Project Management and other support staff
• Is accountable for the development of test project plans, test schedule, test plans, and detailed test cases as defined by DIGITAL Project Lifecycle 
• Leads and participates in review sessions of business requirements, technical requirements, and design documents to ensure that software changes are understood to facilitate testing
• Takes responsibility for coordinating, communicating, disseminating testing timelines, deliverables, and all other information to QA Manager and project teams.   
• Sponsors initiatives designed to support continual QA process improvements, and the integration of the QA process with other development activities
• Initiates and completes test escape and root cause analysis, testing lessons learned, recommends future process improvements and defect prevention

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
• Mobile Native Application and Mobile Test Automation Experience
• Deep knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle and concepts
• Proven experience in all aspects of functional, integration and regression testing
• Ability to operate comfortably in a multi-task / multi priority environment across a global team
• Experience with client server environments
• Ability to organise test design approaches with maximum impact 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Agile/Scrum as well as Waterfall development methodologies
• Mobile Native Application and Mobile Browser Testing via devices and simulators in both iOS and Android platform
• Development or test automation tools framework (i.e, Cucumber, Selenium, Appium, Java)
• Test script design in Gherkin format
• HP’s Application Lifecycle Management / Atlassian Confluence and JIRA tool 
• Exposure to commercial mobile manual/automation test management packages (Sage)