Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), AVP (Wealth Custody & Clearing)

About this role

Who We Are

State Street’s Wealth Custody & Clearing (WC&C) business delivers institutional grade custody, clearing, and platform services to wealth managers, broker dealers, and financial institutions. As WC&C modernizes and scales its digital platforms, quality engineering and automated testing are critical to ensuring platform reliability, data integrity, and regulatory grade controls.

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to serve as a hands-onquality engineering contributor, embedded within Wealth Technology delivery teams and accountable for building robust automated testing solutions across frontend, backend, and integration layers.

Role Summary

This role is a senior individual contributor position focused on test automation, quality engineering, and software validation in a regulated, production critical environment.

You will design, build, and maintain automated testing frameworks, partner closely with developers and product teams, and act as a quality advocate throughout the software development lifecycle. This position emphasizes engineering driventesting, not manual execution, or people management.

Core Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain **automated test frameworks** for frontend, backend, and API driven systems

• Build and execute **automated test suites** covering functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end scenarios

• Partner closely with application developers, product managers, and platform engineers to embed **quality early in the SDLC**

• Validate system behavior across **wealth custody, clearing, trading, and servicing workflows**

• Create and maintain **test data strategies** that support repeatable, reliable automated testing

• Identify, document, and track defects while contributing to **root cause****analysis and defect prevention**

• Ensure applications meet enterprise expectations for **accuracy, reliability, resiliency, and regulatory ...