Quality Assurance Engineer

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Job description

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

Job Description

Position Overview:

Our vision is to provide a data-driven, cloud-native solution that connects the front and back office of global asset and wealth managers through exception-based workflows and seamless collaboration across analytics, portfolio construction, trading, settlement, and compliance. We are growing team with a start-up mentality and we are looking for motivated people who want to be part of an exciting growth opportunity in the Fintech industry.

The Senior Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and improving test automation for the platform. As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you lead through others to ensure the team adheres to our automation best practices. This position requires the ability to understand and test detailed functional requirements.

Candidates should possess an open mindset, be prepared for agile development cycles, and the ability to learn both technical and functional requirements quickly. Work for a team where testing is an entry gate in the development process.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead efforts to develop and enhance QA processes for both manual and automated application testing with a heavy emphasis on automated testing
• Mentor others on the global Quality Assurance team drawing on your expertise in applications/modules assigned for testing
• Partner with product management and software engineers to execute testing tasks for assigned projects
• Work with product management and software engineers to produce on-time, high-quality releases (continuous delivery)
• Proactively communicates status and raises concerns with feature teams
• Write clear, comprehensive test plans for features to review with feature teams
• Develop automated regression testing for the product using Postman, Jenkins and other tools

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Minimum of 1 year of application testing experience using automated approaches with enterprise software
• Must possess excellent listening, presentation, interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate ideas clearly
• Experience in the financial services domain: Portfolio Management/Accounting, Trade Order Management, Risk Management a strong plus
• Enjoy juggling multiple tasks with a skill for prioritizing in a time-sensitive environment
• Burning desire to learn and continually improve
• Not afraid to ask questions or challenge ideas and processes
• Experience in agile methodologies -Scrum/Kanban
• Experience with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence)
• Technical experience with automated test tools for web based applications - Postman, Selenium, SoapUI, or Jmeter experience
• Experience with languages such as Python, Java Script, Perl, Ruby, SQL

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan. SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.