Job Description

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

As a Software Engineer III at JPMorganChase within the Commercial & Investment Bank, you serve as a seasoned member of an agile team to design and deliver trusted market-leading technology products in a secure, stable, and scalable way. You are responsible for carrying out critical technology solutions across multiple technical areas within various business functions in support of the firm’s business objectives.

Job responsibilities

• Perform testing of core banking applications on the mainframe by designing and executing comprehensive test strategies.
• Modeling real-world client usage, automating tests across multiple technologies, and validating system capacity and resilience.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to review requirements, ensure production stability, and proactively identify opportunities for optimization and growth, supporting the reliability and scalability of critical banking services.
• Drive technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems.
• Gather, analyze, synthesize, and develop visualizations and reporting from large, diverse data sets.
• Proactively identifies hidden problems and patterns in data and use these insights to drive improvements to application performance or system hygiene.
• Present results at a technical and business level, comfortably call out risks, performance bottlenecks, or tuning recommendations.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 3+ years applied experience
• Hands-on practical experience in mainframe manual testing, and operational stability.
• Strong basic and conceptual knowledge of performance testing.
• Experience in building & developing test approaches, and designing test plans and test scenarios.
• Measurements of application performance and processing ceilings to identify tuning opportunities or prepare for growth.
• Ability to understand client behavior, use cases, and build load models with appropriate transactions per second, or # of concurrent users, understand/apply pacing vs think time, triangulate geographical positions with latency, and chaos engineering.
• Understand application dependencies/cross-impacts and multiple tech stacks.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Additional skills of benefit would be experience in zSeries Mainframe, IBM MQ, or BMC MainView.
• Experience in LoadRunner, DynaTrace, IBM MainView, MQ, and zSeries mainframe.
• Must be able to gain a clear understanding of product architecture and application flows in complex legacy platforms and cloud technologies.
• Overall knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security. Demonstrated knowledge of software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)