Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java SDET

What You'll Do:

The engineer is responsible for gaining a thorough understanding of the system to be tested. This individual must learn both the technical side of the system as well as understand what the business user expects. The engineer will create and maintain the automated test framework and Utilities to generate automated tests. During daily scrum meetings and collaborations meetings the engineer will collaborate and communicate with team members, other technical teams and users, to ensure accuracy and transparency. The engineer will build tests and utilities and architect performant, modular and re-useable solutions. The engineer will be able to diagnose and absorb new projects, and evaluate the designed system, the requirements and other key approaches to develop a comprehensive automated approach.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Works in an Agile team throughout the Lifecycle to collaborate on the analysis, design, development & testing

• Actively participates in Sprint planning sessions to create stories with robust acceptance criteria while helping identify missing or incomplete requirements

• Actively participates in design/technical reviews to identify missing, incomplete or inaccurate design assumptions or design choices. 

• Creates Java automation framework to build automated tests and utilities

• Build and maintain integration testing framework in Jenkins to execute automated tests for regression, integration, and functional testing on newly designed or modified applications/systems. 

• Thoroughly analyzes, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.

• Independently follows up with development resources for solution identification 

• Performs thorough code reviews and recommends improvements

• Mentor and coach team members and new team members

• Evaluate solution to design, script and execute Performance (Load, Stress etc..) tests

• Follows agreed upon implementation of agile philosophies to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.

Other Responsibilities:

• Strong Communication - articulates clearly and concisely, the specifics to team and senior management
• Training team members on new systems requirements and nuances

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Strong Java knowledge and OO programming concepts.

• Requires in-depth knowledge of multi-threaded, highly distributed and concurrent systems

• Strong experience with creating webservices application

• Broad based knowledge of the lifecycle development, change control management, Automation framework

• Deeply analytical skills, with ability to display methods of testing highly sophisticated systems, progressively diagnose systems defects, and clearly communicate to project constituents, key findings and learnings.

• Strong communication skills, written and oral, analytical abilities, sound judgement and time management skills, and the ability to work effectively with clients (users), management and staff.

• Highly motivated self-starter with creative problem-solving skills.

• Able to meet aggressive deadlines efficiently and effectively.

• Able to handle multiple project tasks simultaneously.

Technical Skills:

• Java, Python, Junits and Unix shell scripting a plus

• Performance Testing Skills and tools experience

• Big Data – cloud , kafka, AWS experiences a plus

• Ability to work with RDBMS, no-sql,S3 etc ..

Education and/or Experience:

• 7+ years Java development experience.

• Developed multithread, performant , distributed application and webservices.

• Strong experience with testing java based distributed applications

• Strong understanding of testing concepts and principles

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline, OR an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Financial Industry experience preferably in trading and Risk management a plus

Certificates or Licenses:

• AWS certifications are a plus.

• JCP / Python certification a plus

• Agile certifications a plus

Who We Are

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.

What We Offer

A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:

A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work

Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education

Student Loan Repayment Assistance

Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely

Generous PTO and Parental leave

Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision