Software Development Engineer in Test; SDET

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.

Locations :
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

In this role as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will be working on a fast‑paced Agile team focused on building functionality to support our development team. This involves close collaboration in a cross‑functional team of Software Developers, QA engineers and Product Managers. This SDET role will encompass product functional testing with scope to include writing automation, defining and implementing the automation framework, monitoring CI/CD pipelines, performance & test results analysis, use case validation, evaluating and reporting current quality of existing and new features, developing and maintaining test tools.

• Own the entire testing process for your team, including representing quality in cross‑team discussions, requirements analysis, test planning, test case definition and execution, and test case automation.
• Cultivate deep understanding of business needs and technical roadmap and set clear quality standards in collaboration with other Quality and Engineering Managers.
• Recommend improvements to quality process, testing methodology, and automation strategy within your team and across the product.
• Help define and implement performance/scale test strategy and capabilities.
• Monitor and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain and extend existing test automation framework, as well as evaluation and build out of any new frameworks in support of our automation needs and strategy.
• Provide technical guidance to QA team members and enhance technical capabilities.
• Be an advocate and champion of a quality mindset across your team and the product. – ‘build quality in’, ‘automation‑first’ and ‘shift left test’.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Science, or other relevant majors or equivalent experience.
• 2–5 years of experience in delivering high quality products and facilitating automation tests in enterprise software environment.
• Experience with writing automation with the following languages:
  JavaScript, Python, Type Script.
• Experience with API and UI testing platforms, Pytest, Playwright or similar frameworks.
• Knowledge of the complete QA cycle and experience with different types of testing, including experience building and adding onto an automation framework.
• Experience with Dockers and Cloud platforms.
• Experience with Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, Git Hub Actions). Pull‑Request, cherry‑pick, merge conflict resolution should be second nature to you.
• Experience in developing or influencing the development of automated framework(s) for enterprise level functional and regression testing is preferable.
• Experience with performance testing using Locust or other performance tools.

• Portfolio and/or accounting and investment industry experience
• Understanding of financial instruments and how they apply to today’s marketplace.
• Experience with Agile methodologies including scrum practices.
• Knowledge of Robot Framework
• Experience Unix/Linux OS
• Knowledge in Performance testing
• Working knowledge of Mongo
  
  DB, Json Scripts, SQL

• Flexibility :
  Hybrid Work Model (6 days in office per month) & a Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans
• Your Future : 401k Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement
• Work/Life Balance :
  Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
• Your Well‑being :
  Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave
• Diversity & Inclusion :
  Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating, and Thriving on Diversity
• Training :
  Hands‑On, Team‑Customized, including SS&C University

Thank you for your interest in SS&C! To further explore this opportunity, please apply through our careers page on the corporate…