Lead Infrastructure Test Engineer

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 information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

• 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.

The Impact you will have in this role:

You will be the member of The Enterprise Product & Platform Engineering is DTCCs entity responsible to provide centralized, independent quality assurance services to DTCCs 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 asChef-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/SMEs, business users and project managers to understand requirements and communicate status.

Your Primary 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
- Partner with different stake holders - Product Management, Application Development, DevOps and other Technical teams in planning and coordination
- 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
- 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
- Experience to lead teams and work independently

Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Proven min experience of 08+ years.

Talents Needed for Success:

- Extensive knowledge of CI/CD pipelines on Jenkins and source code control/repository.
- Experience with Unix Shell Scripts, Python/Ruby and groovy.
- Experience with Chef-Inspec framework tool.
- Minimum 2 years working experience with AWS - knowledge to create and enhance test scripts with AWS SDK and AWS CLI or AWS certificated.
- Must have Hands-on experience inDevelopment or Test Automation Framework implementations in Enterprise/Internet commercial software environments.
- Advanced development skills, understanding of design patterns, data structures, and experience working in a layered architecture with significant experience applying those skills in test environments
- Ability to interpret technical designs and specifications and design automated solutions accordingly.
- Ability to programmatically test a variety of infrastructure components and develop tests for your own code
- Knowledge or experience of automation at all software layers (e.g. UI, services, APIs, etc.)
- 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.

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.