Sr. Software 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

Experience: 6 to 8 Years

Mode of Work: Hybrid

Notice period: 30 days

• Working with multiple teams in multiple time-zones (India, UK, Aus) to deliver UAT and E2E testing of complex technical solutions within the SSNC Wealth Management Stack of Applications
• Defining, implementing, and assuring technical Quality Assurance standards within your specialism at the departmental level and taking ownership for the recording of technical information, process and procedures that relate to your specialism within the SSNC KM System
• Interpreting and applying SSNC-wide QA standards within the area of your specialism and assisting others in doing so.
• Using SSNC-wide QA standard practices, policies, and approaches to define the technical details of a QA plan within a particular Project or Programme of IT change. Influencing a wide range of stakeholders in respect of delivering this plan.
• Performing Quality Assurance and Testing tasks relating to Business and IT change across the full software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) and assuring the work of others to ensure conformance to standards within your specialism.
• Working as an integral part of a team of Specialist QA Analysts and QA Analysts to Quality Assure and Test a Project or Programme of IT change – typically covering more than one system or area of functional or Business change and involving work within and external to your specialism.
• Proactively driving the application of quality standards and good practice at peer-level across the IT and Business organizations, acting as an authority and advocate for the IT Quality Assurance strategy, its meaning, benefits, and goals.
• Assisting in the drafting of such strategies where they require specialist technical input.
• Analysing Business Requirements, assessing the quality of these to ensure they are Cohesive, Comprehensive, Concise, Clear and Correct, and assures the work of others to ensure conformance to standards then using the same to design and prepare test scenarios and test scripts which provide comprehensive coverage of all Requirements.
• Ensuring traceability of test scenarios and test scripts back to specific items within the Business Requirements.
• Execution of test scripts as created by self or other team members, capturing test evidence, and recording success criteria and/or defects, and assures the work of others to ensure conformance to standards.
• Perform re-test executions following the resolution of defects found in previous cycles of execution.
• Take responsibility for the management of your own assigned work – managing your own timescales to meet deadlines, monitoring and reporting the progress of your own work, working autonomously within the boundaries of the role and seeking assistance and support where appropriate.
• Acting as a client or senior stakeholder contact within your area of specialism. Assisting clients/senior stakeholders in the definition of acceptance criteria/scenarios and representing the QA department in a technical capacity during such interactions (e.g. meetings, daily calls, defect triage, progress reporting)