IT Security Engineer
DTCC City of London, England, United Kingdom
Financial Services · 5,001-10,000 employees
About the role
Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for IAM applications while integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to validate IAM workflows and ensure the reliability of security services.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires at least 4 years of experience in automation engineering with proficiency in tools like Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress. Candidates should have strong scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, or JavaScript and experience with API validation.
Benefits
Full 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
- Pension
- 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 of your choosing)
The impact you will have in this role:
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.
Role Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Associate Automation Test Engineer to establish and maintain automated testing and validation capabilities across the IAM portfolio, including PAM, Vault, PKI, Active Directory, Service Accounts, and Access Management applications. The role will focus on building automated regression suites, validating IAM workflows, improving release quality, reducing manual testing effort, and ensuring secure and reliable IAM services across the enterprise.
The ideal candidate should have strong automation engineering skills combined with a good understanding of IAM concepts, authentication, authorization, privileged access management, certificate lifecycle management, and directory services.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for IAM applications and services.
- Build and execute automated regression suites for PAM, Vault, PKI, Active Directory, ARC, and related IAM platforms.
- Develop end-to-end automated validation for critical IAM workflows.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD and deployment pipelines.
- Perform API testing and service validation for IAM integrations.
- Develop reusable automation components to improve test coverage and execution efficiency.
- Validate application functionality following upgrades, patches, infrastructure changes, and new releases.
- Create automated smoke tests and health checks for production readiness validation.
- Collaborate with IAM engineering, operations, architecture, and application teams to understand requirements and develop appropriate test coverage.
- Analyze failures, identify root causes, and work with engineering teams to resolve defects.
- Maintain test data, test environments, and automation repositories.
- Generate test execution reports, quality metrics, and release readiness dashboards.
- Leverage AI-assisted testing tools and modern automation capabilities to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
- Support audit and compliance requirements by maintaining evidence of testing and release validation activities.
**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
Talents Needed For Success:
- Minimum of 4 years related experience
- Strong experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Robot Framework, Postman
- Strong programming or scripting experience in Python, PowerShell, JavaScript / TypeScript
- Experience developing automated API validations.
- Knowledge of Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience working with Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization!
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.
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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Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC’s business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC’s mission to support the financial markets.
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