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're 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.

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 andPersonal/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).

The Impact you will have in this role:

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, regulatorydriven 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, 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 nonproduction environment designed to simulate production as closely as possible.

Success in this role requires a strongly inquisitive mindset, an ability to understand a dayinthelife 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.

Your Primary 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 epiclevel acceptance criteria, ensuring they properly reflect FR&G user needs and regulatory considerations.
Develop a strong understanding of endtoend 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 recordretention standards.
Maintain UAT templates and test logs in approved repositories in accordance with recordretention 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 signoff to confirm comprehensive test coverage aligns with approved UAT scope and established entry criteria.
Execute UAT in representative nonproduction 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 risksensitive, exceptionmode, and controltriggering scenarios.
Contribute to the automation of UAT test cases, partnering with QA, engineering, or automation teams as needed.

Qualifications:

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

Talents Needed for Success:

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 withIntermediate 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.

ABOUT THE TEAM

Our Risk Management teams work to protect the safety and soundness of our systems and are responsible for identifying, managing, measuring and mitigating a spectrum of key risk types including credit, market, liquidity, systemic, operational and technology in all existing and new products, activities, processes and systems.

Risk User Acceptance Testing Senior Associate