Associate Software Development Engineer in Test

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality technology solutions through activities that include software development, test automation, quality engineering, platform modernization, and implementation of data, security, and regulatory standards.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee)

The Impact you will have in this role:

The SDET family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. This may include new development, maintenance, automation, enhancement, and modernization of software products used internally and externally across DTCC platforms.

As an Associate, Software Development Engineer in Test, you will help drive quality engineering practices across strategic initiatives and enterprise delivery streams. In this role, you will contribute to functional and automated testing, support shift-left quality practices, maintain end-to-end traceability, and help validate complex workflows spanning user interfaces, APIs, databases, regulatory reporting flows, file-based ingestion, and cross-system integrations. The role is expected to support secure, compliant, and scalable delivery by partnering closely with Software Engineers, Product Owners, Scrum teams, and partner platforms. This scope includes regulatory and reporting validation, schema and file-format transformations, traceability across testing tools, UI/API/backend coordination, and testing across database, integration, regression, and automation workflows.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Apply software development and testing methodologies, tools, and technologies to validate business, functional, and regulatory requirements across multiple enterprise applications and platforms.
• Design, execute, and maintain manual and automated tests across the delivery lifecycle, including functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, and automation-assisted testing.
• Maintain traceability from user stories and acceptance criteria through test scenarios, test cases, automation assets, evidence, and defect tracking using tools such as JIRA and ALM/AQM.
• Partner with Software Engineers and Product Owners during refinement, story grooming, and scenario walkthroughs to clarify requirements, identify ambiguities early, and improve testability before code completion.
• Validate API, UI, and database behavior as required, including support for backend and data-level verification across enterprise systems where project scope requires it.
• Perform validation activities such as file ingestion, schema validation, field mapping, field transformation, XML/CSV processing, report verification, ACK/NACK handling, error validation, and simulator-driven testing.
• Support regulatory and control-focused testing needs, including validation of transaction/reporting accuracy, reporting timeliness, privacy and data masking, entitlements, auditability, portal access, and downstream impacts to related systems or reporting channels.
• Contribute to automation frameworks and continuous testing by integrating automated checks with CI/CD pipelines and supporting smoke, sanity, and regression execution as part of release readiness.
• Use enterprise testing and engineering tools effectively, including JIRA, ALM, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Splunk, database-driven validation platforms, simulator tools, and automation frameworks.
• Collaborate with internal and cross-functional teams on requirement analysis, UI/API integration, issue triage, dependency management, troubleshooting, and solution validation across shared and distributed teams.
• Create and maintain system, test, and execution documentation including test plans, scenario coverage, execution evidence, defect summaries, and test status reporting.
• Align risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk, escalate issues appropriately, and support secure, compliant software delivery.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience in software testing, quality engineering, or test automation
• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience
• Experience in functional testing, automation testing, and defect lifecycle management in Agile delivery environments
• Hands-on experience with test design techniques such as equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision table testing, pairwise testing, and exploratory testing
• Experience working with JIRA and ALM for requirements traceability, test management, and issue tracking
• Experience with one or more programming/scripting languages such as Java or Python
• Familiarity with API testing and automation tools/frameworks such as Selenium, TestNG, Karate, or Rest Assured
• Familiarity with Git / Bitbucket and CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins
• Familiarity with AI Prompt Engineering and AI Agents
• Experience validating file-based and data-intensive workflows involving XML, CSV, schema validations, field mappings, and database verification is preferred
• Exposure to financial services, regulatory/reporting processes, onboarding flows, portal-based applications, or data-platform testing is preferred

Talents Needed for Success:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail
• Ability to understand complex business workflows and translate requirements into effective test coverage
• Strong collaboration skills and comfort working with Software Engineers, Product Owners, Scrum teams, and partner platforms
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including ability to document findings and present testing status clearly
• Curiosity and ownership mindset with a strong quality-first orientation
• Ability to balance manual validation with automation opportunities and continuously improve testing efficiency
• Comfort working in fast-paced, iterative delivery environments with changing priorities
• Awareness of privacy, security, risk, and regulatory expectations in enterprise software delivery
• Willingness to learn domain-specific concepts across regulatory reporting, operational workflows, and UI/API integration models

Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. 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.

Salary Range: Salary will be Commensurate with Experience