Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Software Development Test (SDET)

What You’ll Do

Specific duties and responsibilities include creating, maintaining and executing automation test plans, writing code against software platforms, estimating testing efforts, analyzing and communicating test results, defect tracking and participation in day-to-day acceptance test activities, and contribute to the company’s performance and scalability testing efforts.  Additionally, the Associate Principal, SDET, will provide leadership to other SDETs within the team and organization as it relates to best practices.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Collaborating with others to deliver complex projects which may involve multiple systems

• Continuously thinking about the next steps while improving yourself and others around you

• Contribute to our long-term vision and strategy for improved quality via automation

• Develop, enhance and extend automation frameworks

• Identify quality tasks during team sprint cycle and implement automation for new features

• Analyze and communicate test results and defect tracking

• Participate in performance and load test efforts

• Assist in the planning, creation and control of the test environments and test data

• Define test strategy, conduct requirements analysis for testability, identify scope, conduct risk and mitigation planning, configuration management planning, write master and detailed test plans for test planning and design.

• Participate in the review of acceptance test procedures and processes and provide recommendations for improvements to eliminate redundancies in testing and improve efficiency.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership to the team and individuals on best automation practices, design and implementation.

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field or equivalent experience

• 3+ years of technical experience building automated solutions within regulated industries

• 1+ years of within a leadership or senior role on cross-functional engineering teams

• Experience working in an Agile environment

• Hands-on experience with writing automation test code and utilizing leading industry standards tools and frameworks that can simulate complex multi-system scenarios

• Proficiency with automated testing types (Unit, Functional, Load, Security, Behavioral, Integration, Component, Contract and End to End)

• Deep analytical skills with ability to describe methods of testing highly sophisticated systems, diagnose systems defects, and clearly communicate to project constituents, key findings, and learning.

• Experience working in a SaaS environment

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and team-focused environment.

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

Technical Skills:

•  Proficiency with automated testing types (Unit, Functional, Load, Security, Behavioral, Integration, Component, Contract and End to End)

• Experience working with two or more of the following:  web/mobile application development, Unix/Linux environments, event driven systems, transaction processing systems, distributed and parallel systems, large software systems development, security software development, public-cloud platforms

• Automated Testing framework experience (Cucumber, Selenium, Mocha/Chai, TestNG)

Education and/or Experience:

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field or equivalent experience

• 3+ years of technical experience building automated solutions within regulated industries

• 1+ years of within a leadership or senior role on cross-functional engineering teams

• Excellent Oral and written communication skills

• Java based software development experience

• Fluent in object-oriented design, industry best practices, software patterns, and architecture principles

• Automated testing framework experience

• Financial markets work experience, knowledge of trade and settlement lifecycle.

Certificates or Licenses:

• N/A

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, 3 days per week required in office

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

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Step 2
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Step 3
If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location. 

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer