DTCC

Associate Director Test Engineering

DTCC$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum of 8 years of related experience
  • Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
  • In-depth knowledge of automated testing tools
  • Strong understanding of quality control and assurance methodologies
  • Experience in managing cross-team collaboration

Responsibilities

  • Support an environment aligning employee contributions with business strategy
  • Manage project resource planning in partnership with leadership
  • Evaluate project testing statuses and identify critical risks
  • Ensure timely project delivery while monitoring dependencies and milestones
  • Influence design decisions towards reusable IT components and test automation
  • Maintain coordination across teams to ensure comprehensive end-to-end testing
  • Drive the planning and execution of automated testing initiatives

Benefits

  • Access to centralized quality assurance services for diverse applications and systems
  • Opportunity to lead efforts in developing and implementing testing processes
  • Support for continuous professional development and feedback
  • Role in shaping future automation strategies within the organization
  • Engagement with a variety of stakeholders including senior management and external partners
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Impact you will have in this role:

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. The Test Engineering role is responsible for ensuring that all applications, system products, projects, and solutions meet defined enterprise quality standards. Provide centralized, independent quality assurance services across the firm, including functional and non-functional testing for all products, services, and applications across businesses. Design, develop, and maintain automated testing solutions, providing testing expertise, oversight, and direction to ensure the functionality of solutions and that design specifications are met.

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 8 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.


The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations.

About the Team

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.

About DTCC

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is a financial services company that provides clearing, settlement, and information services for the global financial industry. DTCC was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York City. The company operates through subsidiaries that provide services such as trade matching, risk management, and asset servicing. DTCC is owned by its users, which include broker-dealers, banks, and other financial institutions. The company is committed to reducing risk and increasing efficiency in the financial markets.
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1973

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