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Director of QA

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The Director of QA will lead the QA process for insurance software solutions, manage testing, deployment, and release strategies, while ensuring product quality and performance across projects.
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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

Job Title: Director of QA

Locations: Boston, MA or Windsor, CT | Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

We are a fast-paced, dynamic team, who are leaders in technology and responsible for developing, maintaining, implementing, and expanding our next-generation platform for insurance companies.  Singularity is a cloud-based, AI-powered platform for insurers and investment managers that provides integrated accounting, operational processing, and advanced analytics for all asset types.

Why You Will Love It Here!  

  • Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model and Business Casual Dress Code, including jeans 
  • Your Future: 401 (k) Matching Program, Professional Development Reimbursement  
  • Work/Life Balance: Flexible Personal/Vacation Time Off, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays 
  • Your Wellbeing: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee Assistance Program, Parental Leave  
  • Wide Ranging Perspectives: Committed to Celebrating the Variety of Backgrounds, Talents, and Experiences of Our Employees 
  • Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University  
  • Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel, and more! 

What You Will Get To Do:

The Director of QA is responsible for defining and executing a consistent and repeatable process for full product testing, deployment, and release for Insurance software solutions.  The Director must have strong leadership and planning skills and be able to manage both large and small projects through an iterative lifecycle model.  Ensures that products meet end-user functional and design requirements as well as performance and scale expectations through the execution of software quality tests.

Defines and executes integration, performance, regression, and/or acceptance testing. Develops and supports the test automation environment for executing software quality tests. Leader with broad operational or functional responsibilities who participates with other senior leaders or executives to establish and ensure the achievement of strategic plans and objectives. Demonstrates in-depth company knowledge, specialized skills, and influence to solve critical and complex issues.

Participates in the development and administration of broad-scope programs and projects that have a significant impact on operational or functional success. The Director will manage a team across multiple locations and will be responsible for defining and executing the test strategy, maintaining a build environment throughout the iterative development cycle, and building the final release of the product to deliver to market.

The incumbent for this role will:

• Define and maintain project plans to manage delivery schedule, resource management, task tracking, and status reporting through testing and release phases of projects

• Define and execute a consistent, repeatable process for QA

• Maintain an efficient, high-quality library of scripts for automated testing

• Deliver a clear release-to-market certificate for all product releases

• Maintain reliable infrastructure to support source control, build, and release environment

• Deliver a reliable and repeatable deployment model for all products

• Manage day-to-day task assignment and team member workload

• Manage progress and status for a cross-functional team across multiple projects

• Establish SMART goals and career development for team members and review/reset as necessary

What You Will Bring:

  • Candidates must have led product QA organizations with oversight over the parts of the software development process that involve QA testing and release readiness, and have experience with SaaS software applications in the financial services sector.
  • 10-15 years of experience in the financial industry
  • 10 years in a QA leadership position
  • A candidate should have extensive experience implementing the testing and QA approach as applied to a business or a product
  • Candidate must have planning and presentation skills
  • The Candidate must have strong leadership abilities and the ability to provide direction
  • Education: B.A. or B.S. required

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.

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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 offers excellent benefits including health, dental, 401k plan, tuition and professional development reimbursement plan.

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.

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SS&C Technologies Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office

50 Milk St, Boston, MA, United States, 02110

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