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Lead Software Development Test Engineer

5 Aug 2025
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Verified by Turrior

Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence

85 / 100

Offer value

The role offers a strong position with significant responsibilities in a well-regarded firm known for its employee investment and competitive compensation.

  • Competitive compensation aligned with financial industry standards.
  • Opportunities for impactful work within a leading company.
  • Balanced work model promoting professional growth.
  • Demands extensive prior experience in software testing.
Pros
  • Innovative work environment at a leading financial services institution.
  • Flexible work model combining onsite and remote opportunities.
  • Strong emphasis on professional development and mentoring.
Cons
  • High expectations for prior experience (7+ years required).
  • Dynamic role may require extended hours during project peaks.
  • Potential stress from cross-team coordination and project dependencies.

Who it's for

Senior / Lead • Hybrid / office and remote

Good fit
  • Seasoned software development testers.
  • Leaders eager to advance automation in testing.
  • Tech-savvy individuals aiming to work in financial services.
Not recommended for
  • Professionals without sufficient experience in testing roles.
  • Those preferring less dynamic environments.
  • Candidates with limited interest in team collaboration.

Motivation fit

Desire to work on cutting-edge technological solutions.Interest in leading teams and shaping testing methodologies.Commitment to quality assurance and risk management.

Key skills

Test automation and strategy development.Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies.Cross-functional team coordination.
Score: 85/100 AI verified analysis

About the job

Lead Software Development Test Engineer

Chennai, India

Job Info

  • Job Identification 210939
  • Job Category Information Technology
  • Posting Date 08/05/2025, 04:53 AM
  • Locations 3rd Floor, Block A, Global Info City Park, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 600096, IN
  • Job Schedule Full time
  • Salary Range Salary will be Commensurate with Experience
  • FLSA Status Exempt

Job Description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and 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.

DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

Your Primary Responsibilities:


• Support an environment that ensures employees understand how their efforts contribute to overall business strategy
• Manage the team's book of work, partnering with leadership to plan the future supply and demand of resources required
• Evaluate the testing status of projects while identifying and escalating critical risks
• Ensure on-time delivery of work including; monitoring dependencies, tracking progress and project milestone completion
• Influence designs towards re-usable IT components and services keeping in mind test validation and test automation principles
• Maintain a high degree of cross-team and cross-application coordination to ensure end-to-end testing meets intended objectives
• Drives the preparation and execution of end-to-end and automated test planning and execution activities
• Provide testing expertise to project teams; partner with Development team to troubleshoot application issues
• Interact with senior management to share and present future automation strategy
• Ensure team's adherence to departmental and organizational policy and procedures
• Review test strategy with stakeholders to ensure comprehensive coverage and obtain feedback
• Responsible for the provisioning of test environments for the team, and assist with coordination to resolve issues
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.


Qualifications:


• Minimum of 7 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience


Talents Needed for Success:


• Highlights the expected benefits of new actions and strategies to help others overcome fears of change.
• Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
• Proactively seeks feedback from others on his/her own performance; Ensures that regular feedback is given in a constructive and behaviorally oriented manner.
• Supports an environment where individuals are respected for their contributions.
• Acts as a role model for respect and inclusion by showing consideration for people’s different needs; Integrates people of different backgrounds within and across teams; Encourages others in the department to gain a deeper appreciation for different customs and beliefs.


Testing Concepts:


• Responsible for system integration testing of newly developed or enhanced applications
• Requires in-depth knowledge of the software implementation lifecycle
• Possesses good Testing Process knowledge and a detailed understanding on AGILE methodology
• Works with project teams during early stages to establish plans, standards, and procedures that will add value to the testing effort and satisfy the constraints of the project
• Ensures on-time delivery of work including monitoring of external and internal dependencies, tracking of progress, and monitoring of project milestones accomplishments by:
o Recording work status information and generating status reports
o Tracking and reporting actual versus planned completion
o Ensuring all activity is accurately recorded and reported
• Drives the education of Business and Development teams on the testing model, methodology, and processes, particularly end-to-end testing, and its role in quality assurance
• Demonstrates Leadership characteristics while handling Product, Development, EAS, and other stakeholders
• Demonstrates proficiencies in Project and Quality management, Issue management, and Communication
• Assists Testing Manager in reviewing Portfolio Management and Resource Management forecast reports, to optimize team’s supply/demand planning, maximizing resource utilization
• Monitors adherence to quality standards during the testing of production applications, identifies areas of strengths and weakness
• Identifies process improvement opportunities and communicates to the project coordinator
• Experience with ServiceNow, Jira and ALM
Domain Knowledge:
• Ability to works closely with business and development subject matter experts, to continually improve depth and breadth of knowledge for the assigned applications/systems
Automation:
• Experience in writing, and executing application tests using industry standard automated testing tools like Selenium
• AI Testing exposure would be an added advantage

Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.

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