Associate Director Test Engineering

Job Description

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.

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:

Being a member of IT CSS WRAFT Delivery Team, you will lead and execute integration and validation efforts across FICC applications and their upstream/downstream systems. This role is critical in ensuring data integrity, functional accuracy, and operational readiness across the full trade lifecycle. The tester will collaborate with cross-functional teams to coordinate business cycle runs, support performance and resiliency testing, and validate readiness for client-facing environments.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Integration Testing Leadership

• Coordinate and perform end-to-end testing across FICC applications and related LOBs.
• Validate trade data flow between systems and LOBs.
• Certify readiness for client testing in PSE environments.

Test Planning & Execution

• Attend FICC-specific project and scrum meetings to understand scope and proactively plan testing activities.
• Execute FICC Business Cycle runs in QA environments to verify integration across squads.
• Support coordinated testing in lower environments
• Maintain intermediate data stores for regression test reuse and orchestration.

Collaboration & Coordination

• Act as a single point of contact for integration testing across systems.
• Engage with upstream and downstream teams to ensure test data availability and flow.
• Support external testing coordination and execution.

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

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 5+ years of experience in QA or test engineering, preferably in financial services.
• Strong understanding of FICC systems and trade lifecycle.
• Proficiency in SQL and data validation techniques.
• Experience with integration testing across multiple environments.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills across technical and business teams.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. 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.

About Us

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC's Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

To maintain strong alignment between IT and the business, we are bringing together all Solutions-focused teams under a unified technology organization, IT Solutions. The newly-formed IT Solutions department combines Application Development and Enterprise Application Support functions, allowing us to leverage synergies to support the Solutions business lines.

Client-provided location(s): Dallas, TX, Jersey City, NJ

Job ID: DTCC-212147

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-11-21T19:56:44