Senior Software Test Engineer, Api and Integration

2 weeks ago

Laindon, United Kingdom SS&C Full time

SS&C is a global provider of services and software for the financial and healthcare industries. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organisations, from theworld's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

SS&C GIDS Global Investor Distribution Solutions, owned by SS&C, is one of the largest transfer agencies servicing more than 55 million investors in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Hong Kong, and Australia.

**The opportunity**

**There will be the occasional travel to one of our offices, Basildon, Southampton, or London depending on your location**

**You will be responsible for**:

- Creation and maintenance of front and back-end test automation framework and tests for API and integration interfaces
- Planning and maintaining testing environments
- Manage the release of code and changes in the test environments.
- Estimation and planning of the test preparation and test support for all backlog items.
- Directing and supporting all aspects of preparing and executing test scripts during the sprint
- Analysis and setup of all supporting test data
- Accurate recording and reporting of test progress
- Accurate and comprehensive creation, escalation, and management of defects
- Creation and maintenance of regression test packs

**Requirements**:

- 6 years plus experience in a Software Testing role
- Ability to demonstrate a clear understanding of the role testing plays in the Agile product life cycle
- Ability to estimate and plan testing activities and resources and report progress against plan
- Ability to identify, document defects and implement and manage the defect lifecycle
- Ability to manage test environments
- Experience working on Scrum teams in sprints.
- Ability to interact and communicate effectively with a wide audience of technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Understanding of how to review and approve test cases and evidence to ensure the accurate status of the testing of the acceptance criteria of user stories.
- Experience in implementing automated test script frameworks

Clear and concise documenting and reporting skills

**Essential**
- In-depth experience in automated testing of APIs and web services (HTTP, REST, microservices architecture, API Testing)
- Strong API testing experience using tools such as Postman, SOAPUI, ReadyAPI
- Demonstrable experience in working with multi-vendors and complex integrations, e.g., testing integrated systems comprised of Browser/Web Portal (HTML/XML/JavaScript), Cloud Services (Java, SQL), Third Party and Legacy systems
- AWS knowledge
- Ability to interrogate logs and data in high-traffic environments
- Proficient in the use of Jira, Confluence & GitHub
- Non-functional testing, performance, security, disaster recovery, accessibility
- History of utilising debugging tools
- Preparation of test strategy and test plans.
- Good understanding of the use of test data within automated tests
- Experience working closely with development teams
- Basic scripting of automated tests using a coding language like, Selenium, Java, Python, Ruby, C-Sharp, JavaScript,.Net, etc.

**Desirable**
- Understanding of trade lifecycle and financial services business processes.
- Experience using SQL to interrogate databases for test data preparation and checking test execution results
- Automated testing of Responsive or Adaptive Web Designs
- Non-functional testing, performance, security, disaster recovery, usability

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