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We do not accept unsolicited resumes or sales solicitations from staffing agencies. Any OCC employee wishing to submit a referral must do so through their Workday account. Any resume submitted outside of an active job posting will not be considered for employment.\nWhat You'll Do:\nOCC'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. 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Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.\n7+ years hands-on experience in performance testing and engineering, including design and execution of complex performance test scenarios\n\n5+ years designing and executing failover/DR testing across multi-region architectures (cloud and hybrid environments)\n\nStrong expertise in performance testing tools: LoadRunner (enterprise scaling), JMeter, Gatling, with ability to evaluate tool trade-offs\n\nProficiency in scripting/programming: Python, Java, JavaScript, with ability to develop performance testing frameworks\n\nSolid hands-on experience with AWS cloud environments, including EC2, RDS, Kafka, and performance monitoring\n\nWorking knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized application performance testing (Docker, Kafka, event-driven systems)\n\nExperience with UC4 (Automic) job scheduling in test execution and orchestration\n\nHands-on experience testing Kafka producer/consumer performance, lag validation, and message throughput\n\nStrong understanding of relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle, DB2) and ability to write queries for performance analysis\n\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab CI) and integration of performance tests into automation\n\nProficiency with APM/observability platforms (Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics) and correlation of test results with production telemetry\n\nWorking knowledge of Linux operating systems and command-line tools for performance analysis\n\nExperience with test management tools (Jira, Zephyr, SpiraTest) and defect tracking integration\n\nBackground in finance domain OR highly regulated, low-latency, high-availability systems (clearing, settlement, risk)\n\nExperience with multi-region testing (primary/secondary/tertiary architectures) with performance validation across regions\n\nTechnical Skills:\nFamiliarity with AI/ML-augmented testing tools for automated test case generation, self-healing automation, and predictive defect analysis.\n\nExperience with API and contract testing (Postman, RestAssured, Pact) and service virtualization for testing complex distributed and microservices architectures.\n\nUnderstanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, and how performance engineering feeds operational resilience metrics.\n\nExperience with observability/APM platforms (Splunk, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, AWS Vantage, Logic Monitor) and correlating test results with production telemetry.\n\nTesting Experience in multi region (primary/secondary/tertiary) hybrid architecture across cloud and on-premise\n\nFamiliarity with FinOps or cost-aware performance engineering practices in cloud environments.\n\nExperience testing critical financial market infrastructure (clearing, settlement, risk management, or exchange systems) or other highly regulated, low-latency, high-availability environments.\n\nEducation and/or Experience:\nB.S. Degree in Computer Science, an analytical field, or equivalent practical experience required.\n\n7+ years of experience in the IT industry with 5+ years in Quality Engineering, tool architecture and orchestration including opensource and commercial toolset.\n\n5+ years of experience in Agile methodology.\n\n5+ years of experience in integration of Jira and Test management tool.\n\nStrong communication skills, written and oral, analytical abilities, problem solving skills, sound judgment and time management skills.\n\nExperience in creating automation scripts.\n\nExperience in developing automation frameworks.\n\nExperience in developing Jenkins pipelines.\n\nExperience in the Options and Futures industry is preferred\n\nCertificates or Licenses:\nAWS certification and/or performance engineering certification preferred\n\nAbout Us\nThe Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com.\nBenefits\nA highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:\nA hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work\nTuition Reimbursement to support your continued education\nStudent Loan Repayment Assistance\nTechnology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely\nGenerous PTO and Parental leave \n401k Employer Match\nCompetitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision\nVisit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information.\nCompensation\nThe salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education. \nIn addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer. \nWe typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order toallow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers\nAll employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed.\nSalary Range\n$122,500.00 - $204,600.00Incentive Range\n8% to 15%This position is eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award, for which the target range is listed above (see Incentive Range). 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