As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue SS&C is headquartered in Windsor Connecticut and has 27000 employees in 35 countries. Some 20000 financial services and healthcare organizations from the worlds largest companies to small and mid-market firms rely on SS&C for expertise scale and technology.
Job Description
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Locations: San Francisco CA (Hybrid)
Get To Know The Team
In this role as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) you will be working on a fast-paced Agile team who are focused on building functionality to support our development team. This involves close collaboration in a cross-functional team of Software Developers QA engineers and Product Managers. This SDET role will encompass product functional testing with scope to include writing automation defining and implementing the automation framework monitoring CI/CD Pipelines performance & test results analysis use case validation evaluating and reporting current quality of existing and new features developing and maintaining test tools.
What You Will Get To Do
- Own the entire testing process for your team including representing quality in cross-team discussions requirements analysis test planning test case definition and execution and test case automation.
- Cultivate deep understanding of business needs and technical roadmap and set clear quality standards in collaboration with other Quality and Engineering Managers.
- Recommend improvements to quality process testing methodology and automation strategy within your team and across the product.
- Help define and implement performance/scale test strategy and capabilities.
- Monitor and improve CI/CD pipelines.
- Maintain and extend existing test automation framework as well as evaluation and build out of any new frameworks in support of our automation needs and strategy.
- Provide technical guidance to QA team members and enhance technical capabilities.
- Be an advocate and champion of a quality mindset across your team and the product. build quality in automation-first and shift left test.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelors degree in computer science Information Science or other relevant majors or equivalent experience.
- 2-5 years of experience in delivering high quality products and facilitating automation tests in enterprise software environment.
- Experience with writing automation with the following languages: JavaScript Python TypeScript
- Experience with API and UI testing platforms Pytest Playwright or similar frameworks.
- Knowledge of the complete QA cycle and experience with different types of testing including experience building and adding onto an automation framework
- Experience with Dockers and Cloud platforms
- Experience with Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins GitHub Actions). PULL-Request cherry-pick merge conflict resolution should be second nature to you.
- Experience in developing or influencing the development of automated framework(s) for enterprise level functional and regression testing is preferable.
- Experience with performance testing using Locust or other performance tools
Nice to Have
- Portfolio and/or accounting and investment industry experience
- Understanding of financial instruments and how they apply to todays marketplace.
- Experience with Agile methodologies including scrum practices.
- Knowledge of Robot Framework
- Experience Unix/Linux OS
- Knowledge in Performance testing
- Working knowledge of MongoDB Json Scripts SQL
Why You Will Love It Here!
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model (6 days in office per month) & a Business Casual Dress Code including jeans
- Your Future: 401k Matching Program Professional Development Reimbursement
- Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off Sick Leave Paid Holidays
- Your Well-being: 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 University
Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity please apply through our careers page on the corporate website at 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.
Salary is determined by various factors including but not limited to relevant work experience job related knowledge skills abilities business needs and geographic regions.
California: Salary range for the position: 120000 USD to 145000 USD.