Technical Product Owner - Test Automation Platform

About the role

Julius Baer is looking for a Technical Product Owner for its test automation platform, a role that combines product ownership with hands-on engineering. The platform supports development teams across the bank in building, testing, releasing, deploying, operating and monitoring software securely and efficiently. You will work in a small team of three platform engineers, defining the product direction, prioritising development by user value and guiding technical decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Own the product vision, roadmap and backlog for the bank's global test automation platform.
• Lead the platform lifecycle from discovery and design to delivery, operation and continuous improvement.
• Work with development teams to understand their needs and turn them into platform capabilities.
• Advance testing-as-code through an API-first platform with seamless CI/CD integration.
• Guide architecture, technology choices and engineering practices, and contribute hands-on to implementation, code reviews, troubleshooting and platform operations.
• Champion developer experience and drive self-service capabilities for test data generation, test execution and reporting.
• Track platform adoption, reliability, usability and developer satisfaction.

Required profile

• Experience in a role combining product ownership with technical leadership, such as Technical Product Owner, Tech Lead, Lead Engineer or Senior Platform Engineer.
• Strong software or platform engineering background, ideally with Java, TypeScript or comparable technologies.
• Experience building, operating or extending test automation solutions, engineering platforms or developer tooling.
• Hands-on experience with performance, functional or end-to-end testing and tools such as Playwright, k6 or Selenium.
• Knowledge of APIs, automation, cloud-native technologies and modern software engineering practices.

An advantage is experience integrating testing solutions with CI/CD platforms, especially GitLab, and connecting test results with reporting or ticketing platforms such as Jira. Candidates who combine a product mindset with strong technical expertise and hands-on engineering skills are encouraged to apply through the online application tool.