Principal, Software Engineering: Software Development Test (SDET)

OCC • Chicago, IL

1d • $158,600 - $263,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

OCC's Enterprise Quality Engineering organization is seeking a Performance Engineering Principal to define and lead the performance testing, automation, and quality engineering strategy across OCC's critical clearing, risk, and settlement systems. This is a technical architect and thought-leadership role for someone who can design performance engineering practices at enterprise scale for cloud-native, containerized, and event-driven systems, while ensuring the rigor, resilience, and regulatory compliance expected of critical financial market infrastructure.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Extensive hands-on experience architecting and executing performance testing in AWS cloud environments.
• 7+ years of strong working knowledge in agile testing practices and open-source tools including Python, Selenium, JMeter, Java, and Cucumber.
• Solid understanding of Kafka and Kubernetes architecture, including performance and resiliency implications of event-driven and containerized/orchestrated systems.
• Experience with UC4 (Automic) job scheduling/orchestration and enterprise reporting outputs.
• Strong, proven experience with LoadRunner for enterprise-scale performance testing.
• Working knowledge of relational databases and query tools (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2).
• Strong programming/scripting experience in Java, JavaScript, VBScript, and Python.
• Experience with ETL tools such as Alteryx and reporting/visualization tools such as Tableau.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
• Proficiency with test management and defect tracking tools (Jira, Zephyr, SpiraTest), including tool integrations.
• Strong understanding of containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) technologies.
• Strong hands-on experience with Linux operating systems.
• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, an analytical field, or equivalent practical experience required.
• 10+ years of experience in the IT industry with 5+ years in Quality Engineering, tool architecture and orchestration including opensource and commercial toolset.
• 7+ years of experience in Agile methodology.
• 7+ years of experience in integration of Jira and Test management tool.
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral, analytical abilities, problem solving skills, sound judgment and time management skills.
• Experience in creating automation scripts.
• Experience in developing automation frameworks.
• Experience in developing Jenkins pipelines.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with AI/ML-augmented testing tools for automated test case generation, self-healing automation, and predictive defect analysis.
• Experience with API and contract testing (Postman, RestAssured, Pact) and service virtualization for testing complex distributed and microservices architectures.
• Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, and how performance engineering feeds operational resilience metrics.
• Experience with observability/APM platforms (Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, AWS Vantage, Logic Monitor) and correlating test results with production telemetry.
• Testing Experience in multi region (primary/secondary/tertiary) hybrid architecture across cloud and on-premise.
• Familiarity with FinOps or cost-aware performance engineering practices in cloud environments.
• Experience testing critical financial market infrastructure (clearing, settlement, risk management, or exchange systems) or other highly regulated, low-latency, high-availability environments.
• Experience in the Options and Futures industry is preferred.
• AWS certification and/or performance engineering certifications.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the performance testing, automation, and quality engineering strategy across OCC's critical clearing, risk, and settlement systems.
• Design performance engineering practices at enterprise scale for cloud-native, containerized, and event-driven systems.
• Ensure the rigor, resilience, and regulatory compliance expected of critical financial market infrastructure.
• Evaluate and recommend performance testing tools and APM platforms (Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics).
• Present findings to leadership and drive architectural improvements.
• Mentor and guide mid-level and senior engineers on performance testing and failover testing methodologies.
• Experience establishing a performance engineering Center of Excellence or maturity model across a large enterprise.

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal