Lead Software Engineer - Quality Assurance / Test Automation / Agentic Systems
JPMorgan Chase6 days ago
Base Salary
$157k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build, integrate, and operate enterprise-scale automation and an agentic, human-gated testing ecosystem for IAM products.
- Set journey-based quality strategy, acceptance criteria, coverage standards, regression scope, and performance-testing priorities.
- Implement contract tests, stubs, simulators, and automated integration and acceptance suites for partner-facing integrations.
- Improve test-system reliability through deterministic data, stable selectors and fixtures, parallelism strategies, flake control, quarantine, and triage practices.
- Lead defect reproduction, triage, fix validation, and prevention while feeding failure patterns into coverage and automation improvements.
- Maintain trusted, versioned test catalogs and measure agent fitness, drift, precision, false positives, false negatives, and coverage integrity.
- Provide executive-ready reporting on journey health, risk, coverage, and release readiness backed by evidence.
- Lead adoption of approved AI-assisted engineering practices and coach teams on secure, responsible, and compliant validation of AI outputs.
- Build and operate MCP servers and clients connecting LLM agents to tools, APIs, databases, and internal services.
- Lead communities of practice and promote reuse, inclusion, opportunity, and respect across Software Engineering.
Requirements
- Formal training or certification in software or quality engineering, software development, or test automation concepts plus 5+ years of applied experience.
- Hands-on experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages and frameworks, including experience with Java, Cucumber/Gherkin, SQL, Jira, or comparable tools.
- Hands-on depth in UI automation with Playwright or Selenium and API testing, including stable suites, deterministic data, reliability patterns, and flake control.
- Familiarity with enterprise testing ecosystems and frameworks such as FiTest+ and modern open-source stacks.
- Experience building and operationalizing human-gated agentic testing frameworks connected to tools, frameworks, APIs, CI/CD systems, and data sources.
- Experience with release-readiness governance, entry and exit criteria, evidence-based sign-off, test catalogs, and Release Management partnerships.
- Experience leading approved AI-assisted software-development practices and validating AI outputs for correctness, performance, and security.
- Strong understanding of responsible AI use, data sensitivity, secure input and output handling, resiliency, and security expectations.
- Strong cross-functional communication, partnership, executive reporting, and risk-articulation skills.
- Preferred: experience with human-in-the-loop guardrails, signed and versioned catalogs, drift controls, coverage-integrity mechanisms, and agentic or LLM-assisted continuous test pipelines.
- Preferred: experience operating MCP servers and clients to connect LLM agents with APIs, databases, and internal services.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package with base salary determined by role, experience, skills, and location; eligible roles may also receive incentive compensation.
- Comprehensive health care coverage and on-site health and wellness centers.
- Retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, and financial coaching.
- Benefits and programs are provided based on eligibility.
About JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase provides consumer and commercial banking, payments, credit card, wealth management, and corporate and investment banking services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. The public company (NYSE: JPM) earns revenue from interest, fees, trading, and asset management across operations in more than 100 markets. Headquartered in New York City with roots dating to 1799, it serves retail customers and prominent corporate and government clients through brands including Chase and J.P. Morgan.