Automation QA Lead - PA2024CatQ4007

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

• 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 in order 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)

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.