Corporate Actions Testing IC Associate

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're 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.

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 Global Business Operations (GBO) organization is responsible for all operations and asset services supporting the following DTCC businesses: 

The Depository Trust Company (DTC), National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC), Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) – Government Securities Division (GSD) & Mortgage-Backed Securities Division (MBSD), Wealth Management Services (WMS), and Insurance & Retirement Services (I&RS). GBO’s mission is to provide the Securities Industry with superior operations processing and client services support in an environment that minimizes risk and cost while maximizing efficiency.

Position Summary

Corporate Actions Testing is responsible for testing system enhancements as well as new applications on behalf of the end user to validate that the expected results have been met prior to production deployment. Testing takes place in a non-production region to closely simulate the production environment. Key Functions and Responsibilities: partner with Product Management, Operations and IT, and are part of squads across multiple projects, perform automation as needed with the available testing tools, and signoff on new functionality, changes, or fault fixes before production deployment, and evidence of test plans, test cases and post-test reports.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyzes and understands business requirements.
• Develops test plans and cases via ALM.
• Reviews test plans/cases with collaborators, obtains approval.
• Executes test cases required for end-to-end testing on distributed and/or mainframe test environments.
• Discovers, reports and tracks defects via JIRA.
• Contributes to the automation development of end-to-end testing.
• Takes ownership of workload, ensures deliverables are met while adhering to critical timeframes; ability to manage competing priorities. Assists in benchmark tracking, audit follow-up, compliance and risk management activities.
• Strong knowledge of department controls. Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk, escalates appropriately.
• Demonstrates effective communication skills, active engagement in meetings and display curiosity to learn and grow, accepts feedback given and applies to role. Presents information clearly while speaking in small to mid-sized groups.
• Facilitates training sessions for junior team members as directed by management. Oversees the development of training plans to meet staff development targets.
• Participates and owns small projects and initiatives.

Leadership Expectations

• Champion Inclusion: Embrace individual differences and create an environment of support, belonging and trust. Invite every voice, every day.
• Communicate Clearly: Listen to understand, ask questions for clarity and deliver messages with purpose. Be intentional to ensure your message is understood.
• Cultivate Relationships: Show care and compassion for others and authentically build networks across functions. Partner up, down, and across to enable enterprise results.
• Instill Ownership: Ensure accountability, manage execution, and mitigate risk to deliver results. Be proactive to make a positive impact.
• Inspire Growth: Develop yourself and others through coaching, feedback and mentorship to meet career goals. Build capabilities of others, strengthen our organization.
• Propel Change: Think critically, respectfully challenge, and create innovative ways to drive growth. Be bold and challenge to make things better.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of related experien