Principal Software Development Engineer in Test

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and encouraging 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 crafting 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: 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal SDET to lead our testing team in delivering robust functional and regression testing across our software platforms. This role requires deep expertise in ALM tools, SQL, and hands-on experience with Python, Angular, and JavaScript. The ideal candidate will be a strategic problem solver with strong leadership capabilities and a passion for quality engineering.
 

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of testers to implement functional and regression testing strategies.
• Ensure traceability and coverage using ALM tools.
• Analyze and optimize SQL queries for data validation and backend testing.
• Provide technical guidance on Python, Angular, and JavaScript-based test automation.
• Leads technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability, and scalability
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated tests across the delivery lifecycle
• Contribute to the enterprise test automation framework
• Apply programming and testing expertise to design and develop automated testing solutions and mentor team members on automation
• Implement technology-specific guidelines that are consistent with corporate standards
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project work.
• Support business and technical presentations in relation to technology platforms and business solutions
• Drive new technical and business process improvements
• Research and evaluate specific technologies, and applications, and contributes to the solution design
• Lead delivery team in maturing ways of working, and adopting continuous integration within the software delivery processes and provide guidance on integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipeline
• Partner with team members to understand software requirements and design automated tests that validate the functionality while considering privacy and security requirements
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and supervising controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Prepare, maintain automated test scripts of the team
• Review test cases / automation approach with collaborator to ensure comprehensive coverage and acquire feedback
• Track test execution breakthroughs, report on issues and risks with the potential to affect project timelines
• Very strong analytical skills 
• Ability to coordinate with multiple participants including Business users, support teams, Business analysts, research teams 
• Collaborate with delivery pipeline teams to drive adoption and resolve open issues.
• Identify dependencies for environmental and data requirements; manage and maintain environment and data.
• Responsible for process compliance & associated documentation

 

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

 

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 9 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience

 

Talents Needed for Success:

• Proven experience managing or leading QA/testing teams.
• Hands-on experience with Python or Angular / JavaScript.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Hands on experience working with AWS services.
• ISTQB or equivalent certification.
• Strong hands