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Experience level: Mid-senior Experience required: 7 Years Education level: Bachelor’s degree Job function: Information Technology Industry: Financial Services Compensation: $121,000 - $150,000 Total position: 1 Relocation assistance: No Visa sponsorship eligibility: No

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Lead Test Engineer is responsible for independently leading Test Engineering teams.

You will be responsible for developing test plans and implementing those plans against the corresponding test procedures.

You will be accountable for the development, release, and maintenance of test procedures.

You will be a part of the ETE team - The Enterprise Test Engineering ("ETE") family is responsible for ensuring that all applications and systems meet defined quality standards.

The ETE family encompasses three major areas including (a) functional testing, (b) non-functional testing, and (c) test architecture and enablement.

Other key focuses include regression testing, browser testing, performance testing, capacity and stress testing, resiliency testing, environment management services, and infrastructure testing.

Develops, conducts, and evaluates testing processes, working closely with developers to remediate identified system defects.

In-depth knowledge of automated testing tools, and quality control and assurance approaches including the creation of reusable foundational test automation framework for the entire organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Responsible for system integration testing, including automation, of newly developed or enhanced applications.

Responsible for reviewing requirements and design artifacts, developing unit, integration, and system test cases, ensuring extensive test coverage for our cloud application.

Play an active role in translating business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables.

Advanced java / Selenium development skills with significant experience applying those skills in test environments.

Lead, develop, and advise on test automation strategies and provide critical feedback in requirements, design, implementation, and execution phases.

Expert and hands on automation at all software layers (e.g. UI, services, APIs, etc.) as well as CI/CD technologies (e.g. Cloudbees, Jenkins, Cucumber, Git, JUnit, Jira, etc.).

Develop and improve next generation Test Engineering Automation solutions in a Continuous Integration environment.

Experienced in an Agile/DevOps environment in collaboration with BAs, product owners and application developers.

Define, design, development, documentation and maintenance of tools and Automation Frameworks for current and next gen Software Platforms/Frameworks as part of an Agile team.

Partner with different stake holders - Product Management, Application Development, DevOps, and other technical teams.

Contributes to the Automation development of end-to-end regression.

Works closely with business and AD domain experts, to continually improve depth and breadth of knowledge for assigned applications/systems.

Experienced in mentoring more junior Test engineers, verifying work products and providing guidance as needed.

Capable of working on multiple work streams concurrently in a fast-paced environment

Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills with confidence representing QA principles within agile teams.

API testing, Python and AWS experience in a plus

Requires a functional understanding of distributed and/or mainframe test environments.

Responsible for Project Coordination and Technical Management tasks

QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience preferred.

Minimum of 5-7 years of experience with automated unit and integration testing

Experienced in Agile/Waterfall, onsite/offshore work model and coordination.

In depth knowledge of the software implementation lifecycle (specifically the testing model, methodology, and processes),

Experience with Test Engineering methodologies and Test Automation Frameworks

Extensive experience with testing modern scripting language-based components.

Experience with front-end & back-end testing.

Experience in writing sophisticated SQL queries.

Experience with JIRA, Microfocus ALM, Bitbucket, Git, and Jenkins

Experience with test data management is a plus.

Detailed understanding of smoke testing, black-box, and non-black box testing, as well as regression testing

Experience in estimating, prioritizing, and planning testing activities.

Requires the ability to work well with both business clients and technical team and the ability to work independently, both individually and as part of a team.

ABOUT: With 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance, and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes and bringing increased security, enhanced resilience, and soundness to financial markets. In 2022, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $2.5 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $72 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 17.5 billion messages annually.

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