Risk User Acceptance Testing Senior Associate

DTCC • Jersey City, NJ

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

As a member of the Financial Risk & Governance (FR&G) Testing Team, the Senior Associate will lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across FR&G functions. This role plays a critical part in validating system enhancements, risk tooling, regulatory‑driven changes, and new technology solutions prior to production deployment. The Senior Associate will lead UAT planning and execution for releases, including defining UAT scope/approach, coordinating stakeholder engagement, and ensuring audit-ready sign-off. This role will work closely with Risk Users, Product Owners, Technology Delivery Teams, and Business Analysts to ensure new capabilities meet the expectations and control needs of the Financial Risk & Governance organization prior to production release. Testing is performed in a controlled non‑production environment designed to simulate production as closely as possible. Success in this role requires a strongly inquisitive mindset, an ability to understand a day‑in‑the‑life of Risk users, and a passion for improving both processes and systems. The Senior Associate will also contribute to the automation of UAT and help increase testing efficiency and repeatability across the organization.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of related experience leading SIT/UAT planning and execution and supporting signoffs in a controlled environment
• Bachelor's degree (preferred) or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Understanding of distributed and/or mainframe test environments.
• Familiarity with SDLC/SILC, Agile, Kanban, ALM, and JIRA.
• Strong curiosity and desire to understand complex risk workflows.
• Experience in Financial Risk, Operational Risk, Model Risk, or Governance preferred.
• Experience in estimating, prioritizing, and planning testing activities
• Experience presenting to business users/stakeholders
• Experience with Intermediate MS Excel
• Willingness to build and expand skills in automation and quality assurance.
• High attention to detail and strong documentation discipline.
• Ability to think critically, ask insightful questions, and challenge assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Support an environment that ensures employees understand how their efforts contribute to overall business strategy
• Manage assigned book of work, partnering with leadership to plan the future supply and demand of resources required
• Evaluate the testing status of assigned projects while identifying and escalating critical risks
• Partner closely with Financial Risk and Governance teams to understand functional workflows, risk processes, and control expectations.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Delivery Teams to shape epic‑level acceptance criteria, ensuring they properly reflect FR&G user needs and regulatory considerations.
• Develop a strong understanding of end‑to‑end risk processes, including how users interact with systems, data, and controls.
• Partner with team to ensure maintenance of UAT templates and test logs in approved repositories in accordance with record‑retention standards.
• Maintain UAT templates and test logs in approved repositories in accordance with record‑retention standards.
• Drive UAT status governance (daily/regular reporting, risk/issues escalation, defect triage coordination) within Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) or similar lifecycle tools, ensuring all acceptance criteria are validated.
• Mentor testers; standardize templates, evidence expectations, and execution discipline.
• Define UAT approach/plan for assigned projects and oversee execution across testers/workstreams
• Lead UAT scope definition, user acceptance validation, and support change/release readiness decisions.
• Ensure final UAT package is complete (templates, statistics, evidence) and stored appropriately at end of UAT.
• Analyze and interpret business requirements, risk policies, and control objectives to develop comprehensive user test plans and test cases.
• Review test plans and cases with business partners and obtain sign‑off to confirm comprehensive test coverage aligns with approved UAT scope and established entry criteria.
• Execute UAT in representative non‑production environments, ensuring functional behavior aligns with expectations and supports control effectiveness.
• Discover, report, and track defects using JIRA, collaborating with delivery teams on resolution and retesting.
• Validate system behavior not only for “happy path” (ideal, expected flow) scenarios but also for risk‑sensitive, exception‑mode, and control‑triggering scenarios.
• Contribute to the automation of UAT test cases, partnering with QA, engineering, or automation teams as needed.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees