Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Software Development Test; SDET

• Experience in developing automation frameworks.

OCC's Enterprise Quality Engineering organization seeks an Associate Principal in Performance Testing to design and execute comprehensive performance and failover testing strategies across mission-critical clearing, risk, and settlement systems. This role combines hands‑on performance engineering expertise to ensure systems meet regulatory RTO/RPO requirements, handling multi-region failover scenarios, cloud-native architectures, and distributed event-driven systems.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Define test plans, load profiles, and ramp scenarios for high-volume transaction systems
• Execute tests using Load Runner, JMeter, and Gatling; analyze results and recommend optimizations
• Lead DR testing across primary, secondary, and tertiary regions
• Build and maintain performance test automation using Python, Java, and open-source tools
• Develop CI/CD-integrated pipelines (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions) for continuous performance validation
• Implement regression testing to catch performance degradation from code changes
• Validate application behavior across multi-region deployments
• Define and validate RTO/RPO targets for critical applications
• Design failover scenarios (region switching, data replication, automation, post-failover validation)
• Partner with infrastructure/application teams to verify state consistency and data integrity during failover
• Test replication lag, failover triggers, and cross-region data consistency
• Validate Kafka producer/consumer behavior under failover conditions
• Confirm performance SLAs hold during region-switching scenarios
• Integrate test results with observability platforms
• Maintain and evolve Load Runner scripts and environments
• Document methodologies, baselines, and trend analysis
• Mentor QE engineers on performance and failover testing techniques
• Collaborate with development, Dev Ops, and infrastructure teams on requirements and capacity planning
• Ensure testing aligns with PGP compliance and financial market infrastructure regulations
• Document test evidence to support regulatory audits
• Validate performance SLAs meet regulatory RTO/RPO requirements

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The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• 7+ years hands‑on experience in performance testing and engineering, including design and execution of complex performance test scenarios
• 5+ years designing and executing failover/DR testing across multi-region architectures (cloud and hybrid environments)
• Strong expertise in performance testing tools:
  Load Runner (enterprise scaling), JMeter, Gatling, with ability to evaluate tool trade-offs
• Proficiency in scripting/programming:
  Python, Java, JavaScript, with ability to develop performance testing frameworks
• Solid hands‑on experience with AWS cloud environments, including EC2, RDS, Kafka, and performance monitoring
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized application performance testing (Docker, Kafka, event‑driven systems)
• Experience with UC4 (Automic) job scheduling in test execution and orchestration
• Hands‑on experience testing Kafka producer/consumer performance, lag validation, and message throughput
• Strong understanding of relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2) and ability to write queries for performance analysis
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Hub, Git Lab CI) and integration of performance tests into automation
• Proficiency with APM/observability platforms (Splunk, Dynatrace, App Dynamics) and correlation of test results with production telemetry
• Working knowledge of Linux operating systems and command‑line tools for performance analysis
• Experience with test management tools (Jira, Zephyr, Spira Test) and defect tracking integration
• Background in finance domain OR highly regulated, low‑latency, high‑availability systems (clearing, settlement, risk)
• Experience with multi‑region testing…