Senior Automation Engineer Job Listing at SS&C Technologies in Melbourne, VIC (Job ID R36256)

Description

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: Senior Automation Engineer

Location: Australia [Preferably Melbourne/Sydney] || Hybrid

Job Type: Full Time || Permanent

Job Description

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products.  The Company's operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions.  SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.

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, Primary & Secondary 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!

Please note that this role can be based in Parramatta, Sydney, Melbourne, Wollongong or Hobart

What You Will Get to Do:           

In this senior role, you will lead automation definition and uplift across various projects, ensuring our systems meet all requirements and perform optimally. This position offers a chance to drive impactful projects, mentor and lead junior engineers, and be a part of our collaborative and motivated team!

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will take on a key role in planning, executing, and reporting on automation activities, while also managing defects and engaging with stakeholders.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

• Develop, implement and assure automated Quality Assurance using various test automation tools & frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, QTP/UFT and working API framework (restful APIs/SOAP UI/Postman API), TypeScript 

• Build automation scripts in HP ALM/JIRA to get them run on automation labs 

• Analyze test requirements, design and prepare automated test scenarios and scripts which provide comprehensive coverage of given requirements 

• Generate test metrics & ROI to utilize them for process and efficiency improvements 

• Build complex SQL queries to build automation scripts for data mining requirements and migration requirements 

• Coach and mentor junior developers in the team 

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following best practices and coding standards 

• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across environments 

• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning and estimation 

What You Will Bring:

We are seeking an experienced Senior QA Engineer with solid backgrounds in both manual and automated testing.

With a proven track record of leading complex testing projects, you will also:

• Be proficient in tools such as JIRA, Xray, TOSCA, Postman, and SQL.
• Working experience in Automation testing using Playwright, Selenium and similar testing tools like UFT etc. using VBScript, C#, TypeScript, Java, Cucumber, Gherkins, Angular Material Design and TailwindCSS, Angular v12 or later (preferably v18+), TypeScript Git etc. with strong understanding of Object-Oriented concepts. 
• Strong hands-on experience in Automation framework development and enhancement and should have worked on script development. Generally (at least 2 years, preferably 3+ years). Hands on experience with microservices 
• Proven experience of activities like automated script design, development, execution and maintenance in a Keyword driven framework using the HP UFT or Selenium framework 
• Have a strong understanding of various Software Development methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid, along with DevOps practices.
• Have experience in the superannuation industry or a similar financial sector to minimize the learning curve and quickly contribute to the team.

If you're ready to bring your expertise to a collaborative team and lead impactful QA initiatives, we'd love to hear from you!

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 @ 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.

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.