Senior Associate, Software Engineering

Name of Employer:

The Options Clearing Corporation

Job Title:

Senior Associate, Software Engineering

Location:

125 S. Franklin Street, Suite 1200, Chicago, IL 60606

Duties:

Responsible for the design, development and maintenance of new and existing automation frameworks, continued evaluation of test cases for inclusion in test regression, tests coverage and automation of newly implemented functionality, and the development of tools to enable acceptance test efficiencies. Create, maintain and execute automation test plans. Build and maintain automated cross-system End-to-End BDT (Behavior Driven Testing) in Java/Gherkin to support diverse-component vendor testing (e.g., as unit, security, integration, functional, UC4) in Cucumber automation framework. Write code against software platforms, estimating testing efforts, analyzing and communicating test results, and contributing to the company’s performance and scalability testing efforts. Develop, enhance and extend automation frameworks. Build comprehensive test data and perform sophisticated functional testing, including inbound/outbound Kafka integration, IBM MQ and AWS S3 bucket testing, to diagnose systematic defects/risks. 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. Deploy, monitor, and manage Kubernetes clusters (on-premise or in the cloud) on Rancher to support stability of non-production environments. Mentor the team and individuals on best automation practices, design and implementation. *This position qualifies for The Options Clearing Corporation’s Employee Referral Program.*

Education & Experience Required:

Bachelor’s degree in CS, financial mathematics or related and two (2) years of experience as a Quantitative QA Analyst or related.

Special Skills Required:

Must have work experience with each of the following: 1)  Build and maintain automated cross-system End-to-End BDT (Behavior Driven Testing) in Java/Gherkin to support diverse-component vendor testing (e.g., as unit, security, integration, functional, UC4) in Cucumber automation framework; 2)  Build comprehensive test data and perform sophisticated  functional testing, including inbound/outbound Kafka integration, IBM MQ and AWS S3 bucket testing, to diagnose systematic defects/risks; and 3)   Deploy, monitor, and manage Kubernetes clusters (on-premise or in the cloud) on Rancher to support stability of non-production environments.

Salary

$102,600-$110,600

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