DTCC Hiring for Associate Director Test Engineering at Chennai, Tamil Nadu Full Time

With over 40 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From operating facilities and data centers around the world, DTCC automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions across the trade lifecycle and mitigates risk for thousands of institutions worldwide.

At DTCC we value on our clients’ interests and partner to deliver superior results with excellence and innovation and lead with integrity. We proactively develop your potential and invest in your career.

Why you’ll love this job:

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 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 advancing critical risks
Ensure timely delivery of work including; supervising 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 customers to ensure comprehensive coverage and acquire 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
Clear understanding of QA methodologies and is able to utilize the methodologies in test plan/test strategy development.
Experience in leading QA activities in a fast-pace Agile development team, with hands-on experiences in analyzing requirements, converting requirements into meaningful test scenarios, and implementing effective test cases and harnesses accordingly
Proficient in Java programming language or other high-level programming languages and strong hands-on experience in developing back-end automated functional tests with one of the common Unit Test frameworks (Junit, TestNG, Xunit, etc). Clear understanding of common test automation libraires and tools such as Selenium, Rest Assured, JDBDT/DBUnit, etc.
Strong SQL development knowledge with at least one of the common relational databases.
Hands-on experience at least one of the common CI/CD pipelines, include but not limited to Jenkins/CloundBees, GitLab, etc.
Strong communication skills. Trackable experience in enabling internal corporation within an Agile team across functionalities, and trackable experience coordinating cross-team activities
Experience testing ‘big data’ solutions and data pipelines (Snowflake, Hadoop, Spark, Presto, etc.) is a strong plus
Experience in test data management is strong plus.
Employee Benefits:

We believe in work-life Balance

Excellent Pay /Incentives

24 days Earned leaves

5 Day per week schedule and other Excellent health Benefits

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.
About DTCC

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry’s needs and we’re working to continually improve the world’s most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.
To maintain strong alignment between IT and the business, we are bringing together all Solutions-focused teams under a unified technology organization, IT Solutions. The newly-formed IT Solutions department combines Application Development and Enterprise Application Support functions, allowing us to leverage synergies to support the Solutions business lines.