Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering, SDET

The OCC•Chicago, IL

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or related and five (5) years of experience as a software developer in test, quality assurance lead or related
Architect enterprise-wide automation frameworks that span frontend, API, and backend testing layers using Selenium, RestAssured, and PostgreSQL; design reusable component libraries, including Cucumber step definition libraries; engineer TestNG thread-safe dependency injection patterns and repeatable test runs at scale
Orchestrate full-cycle testing strategies across multi-tier architectures by implementing Functional, Integration, and Regression testing, validating end-to-end business critical UI workflows and cross-browser rendering via Selenium-based suites; verify Microservices communication, payload validation, and fault tolerance through API-level integration tests; and ensure Backend system integrity by testing database transactions, data pipelines, and message queue interactions across SQL and NoSQL environments
Architect and maintain production-grade CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, with stage-gated quality controls, parallel execution strategies, and environment-specific deployment strategies; containerize test execution environments using Docker to ensure dependency consistency and portability across dev and staging
Migrate manual and script-based testing to Cucumber or Karate BDD frameworks by establishing shared Gherkin feature libraries; embed BDD best practices through structured onboarding, feature file review workflows, and scenario design standards

Nice To Haves

3- or 4- year bachelor’s degree is accepted.

Responsibilities

Design, develop and maintain new and existing automation frameworks.
Continued evaluation of test cases for inclusion in test regression, tests coverage and automation of newly implemented functionality.
Development of tools to enable acceptance test efficiencies.
Work closely with Software Developers, Project Management and Customer Support to form and follow quality procedures, standards and specifications.
Create, maintain and execute automation test plans, writing code against software platforms, estimating testing efforts, analyzing and communicating test results, defect tracking and participation in day to day acceptance test activities.
Contribute to the company’s performance and scalability testing efforts.
Develop, enhance and extend automation frameworks.
Identify quality tasks during team sprint cycle and implement automation for new features.
Analyze and communicate test results and defect tracking.
Participate in performance and load test efforts.
Assist in the planning, creation and control of the test environments and test data.
Define test strategy, conduct requirements analysis for testability, identify scope, conduct risk and mitigation planning, configuration management planning, write master and detailed test plans for test planning and design.
Participate in the review of acceptance test procedures and processes and provide recommendations for improvements to eliminate redundancies in testing and improve efficiency.
Architect enterprise-wide automation frameworks that span frontend, API, and backend testing layers using Selenium, RestAssured, and PostgreSQL; design reusable component libraries, including Cucumber step definition libraries; engineer TestNG thread-safe dependency injection patterns and repeatable test runs at scale.
Orchestrate full-cycle testing strategies across multi-tier architectures by implementing Functional, Integration, and Regression testing, validating end-to-end business critical UI workflows and cross-browser rendering via Selenium-based suites; verify Microservices communication, payload validation, and fault tolerance through API-level integration tests; and ensure Backend system integrity by testing database transactions, data pipelines, and message queue interactions across SQL and NoSQL environments.
Architect and maintain production-grade CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes, with stage-gated quality controls, parallel execution strategies, and environment-specific deployment strategies; containerize test execution environments using Docker to ensure dependency consistency and portability across dev and staging.
Migrate manual and script-based testing to Cucumber or Karate BDD frameworks by establishing shared Gherkin feature libraries; embed BDD best practices through structured onboarding, feature file review workflows, and scenario design standards.

Benefits

A standard benefits package
A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness.
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
401k Employer Match
Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision
The Options Clearing Corporation’s Employee Referral Program
Discretionary bonus