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
Title: QA Engineer
Location: Melbourne/Sydney, Australia II Hybrid
Job Type: Full Time – Permanent II Hybrid
Get To Know Us
SS&C Technologies is a global leader in financial services software and outsourcing solutions, dedicated to delivering innovative technology to the world's leading financial institutions. Our Product and Innovation Team focuses on developing cutting-edge solutions that drive the future of the financial services industry.
Why You Will Love It Here
- Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
- Your Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance
- Work/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate Leave
- Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount, Paid Parental Leave, Death & TPD Insurance
- 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
As a QA Engineer, you will:
- Contribute to developing automated test solutions for functional and regression testing of Calastone’s software suite using C# and BDD tools.
- Perform functional and regression testing on code and configuration changes.
- Document QA processes and practices and help maintain the QA knowledge base.
- Support integration of automated test solutions into the Continuous Integration pipeline, including test execution via GitHub Actions.
- Conduct exploratory testing aligned with Calastone’s agile approach and QA best practices.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Engineering, Operations, and Client Delivery teams to understand technical changes, priorities, and testing needs.
- Share knowledge and promote best practices in test automation across the QA team.
- Build a strong understanding of Calastone’s products and functionality.
- Support senior QA team members in applying Calastone’s testing standards and automation processes.
- Partner with developers to identify, document, and resolve defects or unexpected behaviours.
What You Will Bring
- Strong skills in object-oriented programming, ideally C# (preferred) or Java, with experience building .NET-based automated testing frameworks using BDD tools such as SpecFlow or Reqnroll.
- Proven ability to automate REST API and UI testing using tools like Selenium WebDriver and Playwright (preferred).
- Experience testing event-driven architectures, including Azure Service Bus and AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) environments (advantageous).
- Knowledge of CI/CD practices with GitHub Actions workflows (YAML) for deployment and testing automation.
- Skilled in writing SQL queries and working with relational databases.
- Familiarity with AI tools such as Copilot, LLMs, or MCPs to enhance automation efficiency (advantageous).
- Understanding of non-functional testing, including performance, load, and stress testing, ideally using NeoLoad.
- Strong grasp of QA automation methodologies, agile processes, and software testing principles.
- Knowledge of testing techniques such as equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis.
Prior Knowledge and Skills
- Experience testing within financial technology, including financial data, systems, and messaging formats such as XML, JSON, FIX, SFTP, and Swift (strongly preferred).
- Understanding of the European Mutual Funds and/or Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF) markets (advantageous).
- Proficiency with Microsoft technologies, including Visual Studio, Azure, Word, Excel, and Windows environments.
- Clear, confident communicator, able to engage effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.
- ISTQB Software Testing certification (or equivalent).
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.