Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay And Benefits

Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
Pension / Retirement benefits
Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

Your Primary Responsibilities

Support an environment that ensures employees understand how their efforts contribute to overall business strategy
Manage the team's book of work, partnering with leadership to plan the future supply and demand of resources required
Evaluate the testing status of projects while identifying and escalating critical risks
Ensure on-time delivery of work including; monitoring dependencies, tracking progress and project milestone completion
Influence designs towards re-usable IT components and services keeping in mind test validation and test automation principles
Maintain a high degree of cross-team and cross-application coordination to ensure end-to-end testing meets intended objectives
Drives the preparation and execution of end-to-end and automated test planning and execution activities
Provide testing expertise to project teams; partner with Development team to troubleshoot application issues
Interact with senior management to share and present future automation strategy
Ensure team's adherence to departmental and organizational policy and procedures
Review test strategy with stakeholders to ensure comprehensive coverage and obtain feedback
Responsible for the provisioning of test environments for the team, and assist with coordination to resolve issues
Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Qualifications

Minimum of 7 years of related experience
Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed For Success

Highlights the expected benefits of new actions and strategies to help others overcome fears of change.
Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
Proactively seeks feedback from others on his/her own performance; Ensures that regular feedback is given in a constructive and behaviorally oriented manner.
Supports an environment where individuals are respected for their contributions.
Acts as a role model for respect and inclusion by showing consideration for people's different needs; Integrates people of different backgrounds within and across teams; Encourages others in the department to gain a deeper appreciation for different customs and beliefs.

Testing Concepts

Responsible for system integration testing of newly developed or enhanced applications
Requires in-depth knowledge of the software implementation lifecycle
Possesses good Testing Process knowledge and a detailed understanding on AGILE methodology
Works with project teams during early stages to establish plans, standards, and procedures that will add value to the testing effort and satisfy the constraints of the project
Ensures on-time delivery of work including monitoring of external and internal dependencies, tracking of progress, and monitoring of project milestones accomplishments by:
Recording work status information and generating status reports
Tracking and reporting actual versus planned completion
Ensuring all activity is accurately recorded and reported
Drives the education of Business and Development teams on the testing model, methodology, and processes, particularly end-to-end testing, and its role in quality assurance
Demonstrates Leadership characteristics while handling Product, Development, EAS, and other stakeholders
Demonstrates proficiencies in Project and Quality management, Issue management, and Communication
Assists Testing Manager in reviewing Portfolio Management and Resource Management forecast reports, to optimize team's supply/demand planning, maximizing resource utilization
Monitors adherence to quality standards during the testing of production applications, identifies areas of strengths and weakness
Identifies process improvement opportunities and communicates to the project coordinator
Experience with ServiceNow, Jira and ALM

Domain Knowledge

Ability to works closely with business and development subject matter experts, to continually improve depth and breadth of knowledge for the assigned applications/systems

Automation

Experience in writing, and executing application tests using industry standard automated testing tools like Selenium
AI Testing exposure would be an added advantage

Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Lead Software Development Test Engineer