Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

DTCC • Tampa, FL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) creates, designs, deploys, and supports applications, programs, and software solutions, including new development, maintenance, automation, enhancement, and modernization of software products used across DTCC platforms. The role drives quality engineering practices across strategic initiatives and enterprise delivery streams by contributing to functional and automated testing, shift-left quality practices, end-to-end traceability, and validation of complex workflows across user interfaces, APIs, databases, regulatory reporting, file-based ingestion, and cross-system integrations.

The SDET partners with Software Engineers, Product Owners, Scrum teams, and partner platforms to interpret business and regulatory requirements, identify quality issues earlier in the software development lifecycle, and ensure comprehensive test coverage. Work includes backend and database validation, structured file and XML testing, automation, regulatory and reporting validation, and end-to-end data verification across integrated systems.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of overall related technology experience, including 4 or more years of hands-on software testing, quality engineering, and test automation experience.
• Strong experience with functional testing and test design, including translating complex business, technical, and regulatory requirements into comprehensive test scenarios and coverage.
• Hands-on experience developing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and enhancing automated tests using Java and established automation frameworks.
• Strong experience with backend and database testing, including SQL-based data validation, data reconciliation, and troubleshooting data discrepancies.
• Hands-on experience testing XML and file-based workflows, including XML/CSV validation, schema/XSD validation, field mappings, transformations, and structured data outputs.
• Experience with API, integration, UI, and cross-system testing across complex enterprise applications.
• Experience validating data-intensive workflows across source data, database records, application outputs, reports, and downstream systems.
• Experience with test design techniques such as equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision table testing, pairwise testing, and exploratory testing.
• Experience with requirements traceability, test management, execution evidence, and defect lifecycle management using JIRA, ALM/AQM, or similar tools.
• Experience working with source control and CI/CD technologies such as Git/Bitbucket and Jenkins.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including investigating issues across application, API, file, data, database, and integration layers.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with Software Engineers, Product Owners, Scrum teams, and cross-functional partners.
• Quality-first mindset with attention to detail, ownership, curiosity, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to work effectively in Agile delivery environments and adapt to evolving technologies, automation frameworks, business requirements, and priorities.
• Awareness of security, privacy, risk, and regulatory expectations within enterprise software delivery.
• Familiarity with AI Prompt Engineering and AI Agents.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience with Python scripting.
• Experience with automation tools and frameworks such as TestNG, Selenium, Karate, or REST Assured.
• Experience testing applications using Snowflake, Oracle, or other relational/data platforms.
• Experience with Splunk or similar logging and monitoring tools.
• Experience validating regulatory reports, structured data outputs, financial transactions, or reporting workflows.
• Experience within financial services, fintech, regulatory reporting, or other data-intensive environments.

Responsibilities

• Apply software development and testing methodologies, tools, and technologies to validate business, functional, technical, and regulatory requirements across enterprise applications and platforms.
• Design, execute, and maintain manual and automated tests throughout the delivery lifecycle, including functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, and automation-assisted testing.
• Partner with Software Engineers and Product Owners during refinement, story grooming, and scenario walkthroughs to clarify requirements, identify ambiguities and dependencies early, and improve testability.
• Perform backend and database testing, including SQL-based validation of data accuracy, completeness, business rules, transformations, and application outputs; troubleshoot data discrepancies.
• Validate API, UI, database, and cross-system behavior and conduct end-to-end testing across integrated enterprise applications and platforms.
• Perform file-based and structured data validation, including XML and CSV processing, schema/XSD validation, field mapping, transformations, report verification, ACK/NACK handling, error validation, and simulator-driven testing.
• Perform end-to-end data validation and reconciliation across source data, database records, file outputs, transformations, regulatory reports, and downstream systems.
• Develop, maintain, troubleshoot, and enhance automated tests using Java and existing automation frameworks; identify opportunities to expand automated coverage and reduce manual testing.
• Support regulatory and control-focused testing, including validation of transaction and reporting accuracy, reporting timeliness, privacy and data masking, entitlements, auditability, portal access, and downstream impacts.
• Maintain end-to-end traceability from user stories and acceptance criteria through test scenarios, test cases, automation assets, execution evidence, and defect tracking using tools such as JIRA and ALM/AQM.
• Contribute to continuous testing and release readiness by integrating automated checks with CI/CD pipelines and supporting smoke, sanity, regression, defect investigation, troubleshooting, and issue triage.
• Align risk and control processes with day-to-day responsibilities, monitor and mitigate risk, escalate issues appropriately, and support secure and compliant software delivery.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive.
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location.
• Pension and retirement benefits.
• Paid time off, personal/family care, and other leaves of absence to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• Flexible/hybrid work model with three days onsite and two days remote.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed