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

What You'll Do:

Responsible for gaining a thorough understanding of the new system or application to be tested.   This individual must learn both the technical side of the system as well as understand what the business user expects.   The SDET is responsible to design, develop and maintain new and existing automation frameworks, continued evaluation of test cases for inclusion in test regression, tests coverage and automation of newly implemented functionality, and development of tools to enable acceptance test efficiencies.   The SDET will also work closely with Software Developers, Project Management and Customer Support to form and follow quality procedures, standards and specifications ensuring they are met and deliver the highest quality projects in a timely and cost-effective manner.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

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

• Implementation of test automation, responsibilities to automating manual test cases and designing automated test cases

• 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 first approach

• Develop, enhance and extend automation frameworks and test automation coverage

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

• Analyze and communicate test results and defect tracking

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

• 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 test procedures and processes and provide recommendations for improvements to eliminate redundancies in testing and improve efficiency.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

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.

• [Required] Ability to apply test design techniques including Boundary value analysis, state transition testing, and data-driven testing in combination with combinatorial/pairwise methods"

• [Required] Basic knowledge of a development lifecycle under Waterfall and/or Agile methodologies

• [Required] Ability to manage small scale projects and ensuring team efficiency

• [Required] Broad based knowledge of the Lifecyle development, change control management, test planning management

• [Required] Strong analytical skills with potential to display methods of testing highly sophisticated systems, progressively diagnose system defects, and clearly communicate project constituents, key findings and learnings

• [Required] Strong communication skills, written and oral, sound judgement and time management skills, ability to work effectively with clients (users), management and staff

• [Required] Highly motivated self-starter with creative problem-solving skills

• [Required] Ability to multitask and meet deadlines in a fast-paced Agile environment

• [Required] Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously

• [Required] 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

• [Required] Strong testing experience which includes developing test plans, automation of test cases, and working with test frameworks.

Technical Skills:

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

• [Required] Relational databases and query tools. (SQL Server, Oracle and DB2)

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

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

• [Required] Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Office Suite

• [Required] Programming/Scripting Experience/knowledge in any one language (Java, VB script, Python)

• [Preferred] Experience with working on cloud native applications as well as CI/CD tools (AWS, Jenkins, Rancher)

Education and/or Experience:

• [Required] Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

• [Required] 3+ years of experience in system analysis and/or application testing role

• [Preferred] Test management experience leading small to large projects and development of test plans

• [Preferred] Prior work experience in the capital markets, derivatives, financial services industry

Certificates or Licenses:

• None Required

About Us

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.

Benefits

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

• A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work
• 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
• 401k Employer Match
• Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision

Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.

Compensation

• The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education.
• In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer.
• We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers
• All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.

Salary Range

Incentive Range

This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). The amount of such award, if any, will be based on various factors, including without limitation, both individual and company performance.

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OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer