QA Lead Engineer - PA26Q3QAJH101

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

Location: London, UK | Hybrid

SS&C is a global provider of investment, financial services, and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Through our partnership with Calastone, the world's largest global funds network, we help connect leading financial organisations, simplifying the investment process by reducing complexity, risk, and cost. We continue to invest in innovative technologies, including AI-driven software engineering and quality assurance practices, to deliver world-class solutions to our clients.

• 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

• Design, develop, and maintain automated functional and regression test suites using C#, BDD frameworks (SpecFlow/Reqnroll), and modern automation tools.
• Execute functional, regression, API, UI, and exploratory testing to ensure high-quality software releases across Calastone's products.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, supporting continuous delivery practices.
• Leverage AI-powered development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and MCP integrations to accelerate test creation, defect investigation, and impact analysis while validating all AI-generated output.
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, DevOps, Operations, and Client Delivery teams to understand requirements, identify defects, and ensure successful delivery.
• Generate and maintain high-quality BDD scenarios, automated test scripts, and QA documentation while contributing to the team's automation standards and knowledge base.
• Continuously improve QA processes, promote automation best practices, and contribute to the adoption of AI-driven quality engineering across the team.

• Experience developing automated test frameworks using C# (.NET) (preferred) or Java, with Behaviour Driven Development frameworks such as SpecFlow or Reqnroll.
• Strong experience automating REST API and UI testing using tools such as Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, or similar technologies.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, version control, and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong SQL skills with experience working against relational databases and validating complex datasets.
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools (such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) to improve software testing while applying critical thinking to validate AI-generated outputs.
• Solid understanding of software testing principles, agile methodologies, test design techniques (including equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis), and automation best practices.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and business teams.

Nice to Have:

• Experience within financial services or fintech, particularly testing financial systems, XML, JSON, FIX, SFTP, or Swift messaging.
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations and AI agent workflows.
• Experience testing event-driven architectures, including Azure Service Bus and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Knowledge of NeoLoad or other non-functional testing tools.
• Understanding of the European Mutual Funds and/or ETF industry.
• ISTQB Certification (or equivalent).

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's 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 at www.ssctech.com/careers.

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.

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.