Hiring Qa Leader

Lead a team of Quality Assurance & Test Analysts (onshore and/or offshore) in delivery of Functional test planning, test preparation and test execution as per SS&C QA standards

Understand testing impact for scope and provide QA estimates and schedule plan, resource allocation plan & forecast according to the target release to appropriate stakeholders

Identifies testing risks both within and across projects / releases and provide testing solutions / processes to mitigate the risks

Prioritize testing tasks based on goals and risks of projects and ensure testing milestones, activities are completed as scheduled

Support a positive work environment that promotes services to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues / points of interest

Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and or team

Provide insight, information and recommendations on industry trends and significant issues

Advise management and team members and provide expertise on leveraging testing assets and practices across the team

Conduct project requirement analysis, provide intake estimations, create high level test strategy , attend JAD sessions, involve in Agile /Scrum Development , Strategize, Plan and coordinate with assigned QA analysts to conduct Functional/ Integration / Project Regression testing and qualify the code for enhancements /projects and programs.

Apply various QA techniques , best practices , tools , framework and solutions to test applications developed using various technologies

Accountable for all phases of testing for assigned projects / programs and team adherence to SS&C QA CoE processes and audit requirements.

Conduct defect triages to ensure defects are documented clearly and tracked properly until fixed and retested in timely manner.

Periodically report the status of test planning, test execution and defects via daily /weekly status reporting to all project stakeholders, management and executives using standard quality metrics

Strong knowledge and experience is using Test Management tools like HP ALM, JIRA, XRay, Service Now and Test automation tools like HP UFT, Selenium, Lean FT, Cucumber, Jenkins, Postman and Scripting.

Develop, debug, execute and maintain complex Automated testing scripts using various Automation testing tools and framework

Develop and run complex SQL queries for data sourcing and shall be able to test ETL, Reports, feeds, XML, API etc. extensively.

Experience and knowledge testing legacy applications developed in Mainframe / Progress/ Java / C++ and latest technologies, third party applications etc.

Plan, train & participate knowledge transfer activities to the QA team members and clients as required

Coach / mentor new or less experienced team members in the QA team and work to bridge knowledge gap in the team as it arises and stays available for the team to support on need

With the strong business / domain knowledge contribute sharing knowledge of the system & business to the project team and peer team members

Continuously willing to learn new processes, methodologies, technologies, tools, techniques and implement them in suitable projects as required.

Mentor team members and support them for their career growth in all possible aspects.

Accountable for all QA deliverables in all phases of testing including Inception, Sprint Testing, System Integration testing (SIT), Business / User Acceptance testing (BAT / UAT) & Warranty support.

Lead onshore and offshore test teams in the delivery of the HLE/SOW Estimates, Test planning, Test Automation,Test Data preparation, Test execution activities in adherence to the SS&C standards

Identification, Implementation and Governance of SS&C QA(CoE) best practices and process improvements across all projects & programs

Responsible for quality of all assigned projects/ program QA deliverables

Support for measurement and improvement of client satisfaction, building of action plans to address gaps

Collaboration and communication with SS&C teams on initiatives, resolution of issues and risk mitigation strategies

Support for hiring, onboarding and retaining team members

Step up to handle emergency changes / fixes for production issues/ defects.

5+ years working in the financial / wealth management domain (No Loans & Credit cards), with strong knowledge in various financial products & instruments including Mutual Funds/ Segregated Funds.

Working knowledge of QA methodologies ( Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid Agile )

Experience working with 3rd party vendors

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Strong negotiation and project management skills

Excellent organization and time management skills

Must be able to work until 12:00pm EST and more as required to have better overlap with teams in Canada & Europe

Experience with Test Automation tools & framework ( HP UFT / ALM / Selenium, Postman, JIRA, Confluence, Xray/ Service Now)

Experience in people management and working with geographically distributed teams

Experience in Data sourcing , ETL process and proficiency in building complex SQL queries