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

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Locations: San Francisco (Hybrid)

Get to Know the Team

In this role as a Senior 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 Platform 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

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Science, or other relevant majors or equivalent experience.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, TypeScriptExperience 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 frameworkExperience with Dockers and Cloud platformsExperience 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 toolsExperience Unix/Linux OS

Nice to Have

Portfolio and/or accounting and investment industry experienceUnderstanding of financial instruments and how they apply to today’s marketplace.Experience with Agile methodologies including scrum practices.Knowledge of Robot FrameworkKnowledge in Performance testingWorking 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 jeansYour Future: 401k Matching Program, Professional Development ReimbursementWork/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid HolidaysYour Well-being: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental LeaveDiversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating, and Thriving on DiversityTraining: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C UniversityExtra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel, and more!

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate website at https://www.ssctech.com/careers/join-ssc

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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: 130,000 USD to 140,000 USD.