Job DescriptionAre you ready to explore a world of possibilities? Join our DTCC family, and you'll grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you'll seek challenges with flexibility and patience, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life.
Why You Love This Job:You will be the member of The Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering is DTCC's entity responsible to provide centralized, independent quality assurance services to DTCC's Applications Development (AD) organization and the core applications AD supports, with the objective of reducing operational costs and improving applications stability.
The Infrastructure Lead Test Engineer is responsible for design, development, and maintenance of automated and/or manual test solutions to validate Infrastructure changes or implementations. The Infrastructure Lead Test Engineer will be part of the Infrastructure testing team to provide and support the testing of Infrastructure changes or new implementations done by various engineering teams. The infrastructure requirements will be either to address applications' infrastructure requirements or internal environments. This position requires the ability to write automated/manual testing solutions using tools such as: Chef-InSpec, shell scripts, Python/Ruby, Jenkins Groovy and use of monitoring tools. This position requires excellent verbal, written and analytical skills to be able to interact with application development teams, business analysts/SME's, business users and project managers to understand requirements and communicate status.
Your Responsibilities: - Develop and enhance Automated/Manual solutions for Infrastructure validations.
- Be a key technical player in contributing the architecture evolution of Infrastructure Test Automation Frameworks and related capabilities
- Define, design, development, documentation and maintenance of tools and Automation Frameworks for current and Infrastructure Validations as part of an Agile team
- Lead the testing activities, standard of Operation enhancements. Provide strong leadership and detailed management of change, both on software agents and hardware and demand management. Correlate application release plans with Infrastructure testing activities, status reporting, prioritize in concert with business needs and priorities
- Active participant in all phases of the project lifecycle. Work with project stakeholders during project definition to help the team understand risks, dependencies, and opportunities; participate in requirements definition and review; lend subject matter expertise to projects
- Partner with different stake holders - Product Management, Application Development, DevOps and other Technical teams in planning and coordination
- Experience to lead teams and work independently
- Document and communicate Automation Framework functions, interfaces, performance criteria, test cases and results to diverse audiences
- Provide guidance, training, and mentoring of Test Engineers
- Develop Test automation for Infrastructure Implementations to validate provisioned services to security standards and requirements
- Develop end-to-end automated tests in Jenkins and Chef-InSpec, Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipeline
- Execution and maintenance of automation scripts to support execution against different testing environments
- Interact with users, business analysts, application development teams to understand business/technical requirements and system design
- Develop functional and technical expertise for the system supported
- Contribute to overall automation framework design and enhancement
- Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
- Support performance, resiliency, and recovery validation activities for applications and platforms, including availability, failover, scalability, and recovery testing across cloud, container, and hybrid environments.
- Participate in resiliency test planning and execution by supporting risk-based test scenarios, recovery validation, observability-driven analysis, and RTO/RPO verification activities.
- Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to analyze performance and resiliency test results, document findings, and provide traceable test evidence for governance, audit, and operational readiness reviews.
Talents Needed for Success: - Extensive knowledge of CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins and source code control/repository.
- Basic Scripting knowledge with Unix Shell Scripts, Python/Ruby and groovy.
- Working experience or knowledge in AWS - knowledge to create and enhance test scripts with AWS SDK and AWS CLI or AWS certificated.
- Ready to learn or Ability to interpret technical designs and specifications and design automated solutions accordingly.
- Read to learn or Ability to programmatically test a variety of infrastructure components and develop tests for your own code
- Basic knowledge of resiliency engineering concepts, including high availability, disaster recovery, failover validation, RTO/RPO objectives, and observability principles.
- Knowledge or experience of automation at all software layers (e.g. UI, services, APIs, etc.)
- Understanding resiliency and chaos testing approaches across AWS, Azure, Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Understanding or exposure to resiliency and chaos engineering tools such as Gremlin, stress-ng, AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS), Azure Chaos Studio, or similar platforms is a plus.
- Experience in creating testing strategy and automation design document
- Good understanding of the role of automation in various SDLCs (e.g. agile, scrum, waterfall) and mentor, train and coach resources.
- Ability to work on multiple work streams concurrently in a fast-paced environment with extreme multi-tasking and context switching.
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 crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About UsWith 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 TeamThe 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 information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.
