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
Senior Software QA Engineer
Location(s): Toronto (Adelaide) or Mississauga (Orbitor) office
Get To Know The Team:
SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for today’s and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to reach out and apply to our welcoming and inclusive environment.
SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, integrity, and innovation to name a few. We are a fast-paced environment, who promote flexibility, authenticity and offer a hybrid working model to ensure employees can manage their day and meet both work and personal commitments.
We are looking for a Senior Software Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. QA engineer responsibilities include designing and implementing tests, debugging and defining corrective actions. You will also review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts.) The QA role plays an important part in our company’s product development process. Ultimately, you should monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards. Assists with various tasks throughout the development lifecycle of a project.
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
- Your Future: RRSP Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
- Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
- Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
- Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
- Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C Learning Institute
- Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!
What You Will Get To Do:
- Develop, implement, and assure automation using various test automation tools & frameworks.
- Conduct project requirement analysis, Support in high level test strategy creation, attend JAD & Agile ceremonies and coordinate with QA Lead and Project stakeholders to conduct Functional/ Integration / Project Regression test and qualify the code for enhancements /projects and programs
- Apply various QA techniques, best practices , tools , framework and solutions to test applications developed using various technologies
- Responsible for all phases of testing for assigned projects / programs and adherence to SS&C QA CoE processes and audit requirements
- Create defects clearly and track them to closure and retest the defects and surround test cases as appropriately required
- Periodically report the status of test planning, test execution and defects via daily /weekly status reporting to QA Lead and Project Manager as appropriate and required
What You Will Bring:
- 6+ years of working experience in automation projects and technical activities.
- Hand on experience on automation tools like, Selenium, Cucumber, API Testing tools (SOAP UI/Postman/Newman/Swagger, etc.)
- Strong knowledge in automation scripting languages like Java, Java/VB Script, Python etc.
- Strong knowledge and experience is using Test Management tools like JIRA, XRay, Service Now, HP ALM, etc.
- 2+ years of experience in DevOps, Jenkins/Gitlab, Excel macros, Shell Scripting etc.
- Working knowledge of QA methodologies ( Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid Agile , BDD)
- Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- ADA compliance experience
- Experience with performance and/or security testing and a BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject is a plus
- Development experience with Spring Boot and/or Angular frameworks is a plus
We will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process. If you require any accommodation during the application and hiring process, please contact: tacanada@sscinc.com
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate website at www.ssctech.com/careers.
No phone calls or email applications please. We thank all candidates for their interest, but only those under consideration will be contacted.
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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.
