QA Test Team Lead at SS&C Technologies in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

QA Test Team Lead Location: Dublin, Ireland 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 QA Test Team Lead Locations: Dublin, Ireland | Hybrid Get To Know Us: SS&C is leading the way. We continue to look for todays and tomorrow’s brightest talent, those that embody a spirit to improve not only their lives, but those around them. From college students to seasoned and experienced professionals, we encourage you to apply. SS&C prides itself on hiring diverse, honest, dynamic individuals, who value collaboration, accountability, and innovation to name a few. Why You Will Love It Here! • 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 What You Will Get To Do: • Managing day-to-day test activities to deliver quality assurance of software implementations across new and existing projects • Leading a team of manual testers to ensure comprehensive testing of the platform, its interfaces, integration points, and business processes • Creating test schedules, allocating tasks, supervising daily activities and tracking progress across the team • Providing regular status reports and escalating risks and issues to the onshore test manager as required • Championing the adoption of modern testing practices, tooling and automation within the team • Participating hands-on in test analysis, design, and execution activities alongside the team when required • Coordinating testing across multi-tier systems and ensuring appropriate coverage across environments and integrations What You Will Bring: • 3+ years’ experience leading QA teams within a geographically distributed or offshore delivery model • Excellent verbal and written English skills • Strong leadership and management skills • Meticulous attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy • Understanding and experience of working in SDLC model • Strong reporting skills; including daily and weekly progress updates, issue identification reports, and use of ALM tools for tracking and status reporting • Proven experience coaching and motivating a team • Proven expertise in test analysis and design • Demonstrable commitment to continuous improvement; actively drives adoption of automation, modern tooling and evolving best practice within the test team • Proficiency in ALM tooling; including defect tracking, test execution management, and dashboard configuration for real-time progress visibility • SQL server query scripting skills • Strong MS Office skills; in particular Excel and Word • Familiarity with Jira for test and defect management, and SharePoint for documentation, reporting and team collaboration • Understanding of multi-tier application architecture: Angular front-end portals, RESTful API layer, .NET back-end services, and MS SQL Server database; ability to plan and coordinate test coverage across all tiers • Familiarity with CI/CD build pipelines and artifact repository tooling; understanding of how builds are promoted through environments including cloud-hosted and on-premise deployments • Experience managing test execution across multi-tenant environments (single environment, multiple client databases/URLs); ability to isolate and validate tenant-specific behaviour • General experience within a regulated financial services environment • Experience within wealth management or investment services, ideally within a regulated financial services environment • Previous experience on transformation projects, including migrations from legacy systems • Experience working across different phases of testing including System Test, Integration Test, UAT • Experience of testing using SOAP UI or equivalent API testing tools • Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Playwright, or equivalent) • Understanding of regulatory transaction reporting, audit trail, and order management testing requirements within a financial services context 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. 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.