QA Test Team Lead

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

QA Test Team Lead

Locations: Dublin Ireland Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrows 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 apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse honest dynamic individuals who value collaboration accountability and innovation to name a few.

Why You Will Love It Here!

Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
Training: Hands-On Team-Customised throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do:

Managing day-to-day test activities to deliver quality assurance of software implementations across new and existing projects
Leading a team of manual testers to ensure comprehensive testing of the platform its interfaces integration points and business processes
Creating test schedules allocating tasks supervising daily activities and tracking progress across the team
Providing regular status reports and escalating risks and issues to the onshore test manager as required
Championing the adoption of modern testing practices tooling and automation within the team
Participating hands-on in test analysis design and execution activities alongside the team when required
Coordinating testing across multi-tier systems and ensuring appropriate coverage across environments and integrations

What You Will Bring:

3 years experience leading QA teams within a geographically distributed or offshore delivery model
Excellent verbal and written English skills
Strong leadership and management skills
Meticulous attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy
Understanding and experience of working in SDLC model
Strong reporting skills; including daily and weekly progress updates issue identification reports and use of ALM tools for tracking and status reporting
Proven experience coaching and motivating a team
Proven expertise in test analysis and design
Demonstrable commitment to continuous improvement; actively drives adoption of automation modern tooling and evolving best practice within the test team
Proficiency in ALM tooling; including defect tracking test execution management and dashboard configuration for real-time progress visibility
SQL server query scripting skills
Strong MS Office skills; in particular Excel and Word
Familiarity with Jira for test and defect management and SharePoint for documentation reporting and team collaboration
Understanding of multi-tier application architecture: Angular front-end portals RESTful API back-end services and MS SQL Server database; ability to plan and coordinate test coverage across all tiers
Familiarity with CI/CD build pipelines and artifact repository tooling; understanding of how builds are promoted through environments including cloud-hosted and on-premise deployments
Experience managing test execution across multi-tenant environments (single environment multiple client databases/URLs); ability to isolate and validate tenant-specific behaviour
General experience within a regulated financial services environment
Experience within wealth management or investment services ideally within a regulated financial services environment
Previous experience on transformation projects including migrations from legacy systems
Experience working across different phases of testing including System Test Integration Test UAT
Experience of testing using SOAP UI or equivalent API testing tools
Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g. Selenium Playwright or equivalent)
Understanding of regulatory transaction reporting audit trail and order management testing requirements within a financial services context

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. Its important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable to further explore this opportunity please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ 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.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.