Quality Assurance Engineer - Investment Management
About The Position
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 Quality Assurance Engineer - Investment Management Getting to Know the Team SS&C ALPS is a leading Registered Fund Services provider in the financial services industry. Founded in 1985, Denver-based SS&C ALPS, with offices in Boston, Dallas, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Toronto also delivers asset management and asset servicing solutions through ALPS Advisors, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of SS&C Technologies, Inc. Via this platform, financial advisors will be able to access a customizable and efficient TAMP and Model Marketplace solution that is fully integrated from front to back office with emphasis on a high-quality advisor and client experience, differentiated investment solutions for UMA structures and unique risk tools to empower advisors in building the best possible investment solutions for their clients. The platform will offer streamlined asset allocation and trading functionalities, seamless integration of back-office, money management and client services systems, scalability to provide open-ended growth opportunities for the advisor, and comprehensive data delivery to all parties. This is an exciting and complex program that will benefit the broad investor community and requires coordination among multiple core product teams for a successful delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Science, or other relevant majors or equivalent experience.
- 1-3 years of experience in delivering high-quality products and facilitating automation tests in enterprise software environments.
- Experience with Agile methodologies like Scrum and knowledge of software development lifecycle, test methodologies, and tools.
- Experience with different types of testing, including manual and building and adding onto an automation framework.
- Ability to lead QA processes within a product team and advocate for best practices to support the success and timeliness of Production releases.
- Willingness to participate in low and high-priority initiatives that impact other team members and the larger team.
- Strong communication skills and eagerness to solve complex problems with a can-do attitude.
- Demonstrating a desire to learn and continually improve and passion for quality.
- Knowledge of software development languages: JavaScript, C#, TypeScript, Python, Rust is preferable.
- Experience with API and UI testing platforms is preferable.
- Experience with Continuous Integration tools (e.g., GitHub Actions) is preferable.
- Experience with Docker and Cloud platforms is preferable.
- Experience in wealth management or financial services is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Help develop our highly differentiated Turnkey Asset Management Platform (TAMP).
- Own the entire testing process for your team, including representing quality in cross-team discussions, requirements analysis, test planning, manual test case definition and execution, and test case automation.
- Cultivate a deep understanding of business needs and technical roadmap and set clear quality standards.
- Work collectively with team members to solve problems, identify areas for improvement, and provide new features and enhancements to users.
- Recommend improvements to quality process, testing methodology, and automation strategy within your team and across the product.
- Maintain and extend existing test automation framework, as well as evaluate and build out any new frameworks to support our automation needs and strategy.
- Be an advocate and champion of a quality mindset across the team and the product.
- Help define and implement performance/scale test strategy and capabilities.
- Monitor and improve CI/CD pipelines.
- Opportunity to assist in project management responsibilities (leading Scrum, coordinating sprints and story-level backlog with product owner(s))
Benefits
- 401k Matching Program
- Professional Development Reimbursement
- Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
- Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!
- SS&C offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Industry
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
