P2 - Senior Software Automation QA Engineer PA2025Q1SJP03

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

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
• 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.
• 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)

knowledge and Technical Skills

Specific knowledge, skills and qualifications needed to achieve required performance standards in a role.

Essential

Desirable

Practical experience of:

• Working experience in Automation testing using Selenium and similar testing tools like UFT etc. using VBscript, JAVA, C#, Cucumber, Gherkins etc. with strong understanding of Object-Oriented concepts.

• Strong hands-on experience in Automation framework development and enhancement and should have worked on script development. generally (at least 2 years, preferably 3+ years).

• Proven experience on activities like Automated script design, development, execution, and maintenance in a Keyword driven framework using the HP UFT or Selenium framework.

• Some peer working knowledge of requirements review, functional test preparation, manual test execution, defect management processes and progress reporting.

• Formal QA and/or testing industry-standard qualifications relevant to your specialism. (Selenium Qualifications, ISTQB Intermediate or Advanced)

• Strong SQL experience and basic understanding of relational databases

• Exposure to API testing using Selenium.

• Experience working with CI/CD with tools like JIRA, Confluence, HP ALM, Team City Octopus

• Good to have experience working within the financial services industry preferably wealth management experience (Investment Products Retirement Solutions)

• Mentoring, reviewing the work of, and developing the technical skills of other resources at the departmental level. Supporting less experienced staff, validating, and reviewing their work. In particular, you will be called upon to mentor manual QA staff in utilizing automation capabilities.

• Strong communicational skills both written and verbal.

Practical experience of:

• QA within a Financial Services environment/Domain

• Some experience operationally leading small teams focused on QA of a technical area.

• Experience of representing your test specialism with clients and/or senior stakeholders (e.g. Director and above)

• Bachelor s or master s degree, preferably in a Computer Science related subject.

• Formal industry-standard qualifications relevant to technical skills (e.g. HP Certifications concerning automation in HP-UFT)

• Experience in Selenium ( at least 1 year)

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SSC Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SSC 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.