PA2025Q3JB100 - Lead QA Engineer

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

About SS&C Technologies

SS&C is a global provider of investment, 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

SS&C GIDS

SS&C is the largest global investor service provider, servicing more than 55 million investors. Continually investing in global technology and services across the spectrum of distribution channels including: Asset Managers, Financial Advisors, Wealth Managers and large financial institutions such as Banks and Insurers. Investor servicing is offered in many different countries, including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Luxembourg, Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. SS&C also services mutual fund structures in many other fund domiciles.

Global Investor and Distribution Solutions (GIDS) is the business unit offering this role. GIDS delivers global omni-channel investor servicing, including contact centre, using digital services.

About the Role

The expectation of this role is that the person is well established and experienced in software test management. The QA test manager is responsible for the management of the day-to-day test activities to deliver Quality Assurance of software implementations for new and existing projects. The test areas covered under the Percana system will be Life and Pensions functionality, documentation, web services, quotations & illustrations, product rules and client reports.

Your Responsibilities

Test Management

• Setup and maintenance of Percana projects on test management tools 
• Continuous review and enhancement of testing tools e.g. API Test Tools, Automation\Performance Test Tools
• Setup and maintenance of testing resource folders
• Ensures consistency of outputs e.g. test cases, test evidence, defect detail

Engages with delivery teams

• Ensure programme delivery teams are signed up to the overarching test strategy
• Ensure consistency of tooling and required outputs e.g. JIRA, Confluence, test plans, test completion reports
• Confirm overarching gaps\dependencies
• Central point for guidance\support e.g. where should we start with performance testing, is there a company standard for XXX, automation champion

Programme\Project Delivery Requirements:

• Programme point of contact\owner for testing – testing section of PID, owns estimates and refinement, testing schedule\plan, testing milestones, reporting
• Client point of contact\owner for testing
• Define test approach including test phases, project specific dependencies, anything that deviates from the overarching test strategy etc.
• Create and maintain RAID for testing
• Engage with delivery teams to ensure they are aligned with Test Approach, milestones, reporting
• Ensure downstream test phases are resourced and supported
• Key player in all quality gate meetings
• Provide programme\project test completion report\signoff

Support Sales\Client Engagement Process

• Present\Represents overarching test strategy
• Provide ROMs\Estimates including RAID – overarching test management, downstream test phases, number of test environments required
• Feed into contract when required

Your Experience

• Life Assurance and Pension industry experience and/or UK Financial Services experience
• Previous experience working on transformation projects\projects migrating data from legacy systems
• Experience working across different phases of testing including System Test, Integration Test, E2E and/or UAT
• Experience of testing APIs; REST API and use of Postman or similar tooling
• Experience in using test automation tools and implementing test automation regression plans

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

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.

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 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.