Performance Test Engineering Senior Associate

• 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 Enterprise Test Engineering ("ETE") family is responsible for ensuring that all applications and systems meet defined quality standards. The ETE family encompasses three major areas including (a) functional testing, (b) non-functional testing, and (c) test architecture and enablement. Other key focuses include: regression testing, browser testing, performance testing, capacity and stress testing, resiliency testing, environment management services, and infrastructure testing. Develops, conducts, and evaluates testing processes, working closely with developers to remediate identified system defects. In-depth knowledge of automated testing tools, and quality control and assurance approaches including the creation of reusable foundational test automation framework for the entire organization. The Performance Test Engineering role is responsible for the validation of non-functional requirements for performance testing.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed For Success

• Experience in performance engineering & resiliency testing (analysis, testing, and tuning)
• Experience developing n-tier, J2EE software applications
• Experience working in Unix or Linux environments
• Expertise in performance analysis of distributed platforms including Linux, Windows, AWS, Containers and VMware (tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, CloudWatch, TeamQuest)
• Extensive knowledge of the functionality and performance aspects of the above computing platforms
• Experience in sophisticated statistical and analytical modeling
• Excellent analytical skills including:
• Data exploration, analysis and presentation applying descriptive statistics and graphical techniques
• Time series analysis and forecasting
• Key Performance and volume metrics relationship modeling
• Expertise in load & resiliency testing tools, such as JMeter, Gremlin etc.
• Experience in scripting (Perl, Unix shell, Python, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins)
• Experience using JMS/IBM-MQ messaging system and Kafka systems
• Understanding of RESTful web service, JSON, and XML
• Experience in Relational Databases, preferably Oracle
• Experience with AWS services (Kinesis, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, Lambda, etc)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementations, including testing, using Jenkins or similar tool
• Expert MS Office skills. Effective use of Excel statistical functions and sophisticated Power Point presentation skills
• Experience working with Agile teams (preferably scrum)
• Experience in the financial services industry is good to have

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.