Quality Assurance Engineer - Investment Management

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

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. 

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model & 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 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 University

• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What you will get to do

• Help develop our highly differentiated Turnkey Asset Management Platform (TAMP). This platform will enable financial advisors to outsource bundled operational and investment services, including portfolio construction, rebalancing, tax optimization, performance reporting, billing, account administration, and compliance.

• 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.

• 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))

What you will bring

•            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.

Compensation: The compensation range for this position is $80,000 to $100,000.  (This position is eligible to participate in a company bonus plan and stock program].

Benefits: SS&C offers a comprehensive benefits package including:  Medical, Dental & Vision; HSA & FSA; Life & Disability; Accident, Hospital & Critical Illness; Flexible, Sick and Holiday Paid Time Off; 401(k) with Company Match; Employee Assistance Plan; Education Assistance; Professional Development and Employee Discounts.

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 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.