Pa2025mfaopson6 Integration and Testing Specialist

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: Integration and Testing Specialist

Operational area: Transfer Agency

Reports to: Manager - Integration & Testing Team

Location: Melbourne, VIC or Sydney, NSW or offshore

Role Description:
This hands-on role is responsible for supporting the Transitions & Change Implementation teams with specialist testing, configuration and documentation functions. The role encompasses a mixture of
- Internal User Acceptance Testing
- External User Acceptance Testing
- Core Registry system and associated database configuration
- Process analysis and review
- Application of risk assessment principles

You will also be responsible to ensure that
- Any new functionality complies with the agreed company priorities and standards (including performance and scalability)
- All processes throughout the life cycle are completed using existing or newly implemented methodologies.
- Process and service improvements are identified and considered.

Key responsibilities
- Engagement with internal and external stakeholders
- Maintaining team quality standards, artefacts and controls
- Ensuring scalable and risk-centric approach is adopted
- Communicating with internal and external stakeholders on project deliverables

Key performance indicators

Performance against target for_:_
- Accurate delivery to agreed timeframes
- Quality of timeliness of system configuration
- Quality and timeliness of testing outcomes
- Process and service delivery improvement initiatives
- Clear and relevant communication with internal and external stakeholders
- Quality and timeliness of project delivery

Key working relationships

Internal:

- Transitions Data Team
- Program and Transition Managers
- Business Analysts
- Developers
- Management team
- FS Operations team
- Program Office team

External:

- Fund Managers
- Custodians
- Third parties such as Calastone, ASX

Skills and competencies
- Experience with system or user acceptance testing in a corporate environment
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Basic experience in SQL
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Quality orientation/continuous improvement
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Planning and organising skills
- Ability to create and maintain procedures, controls and team artefacts
- Client focus
- Tenacity and resilience

Knowledge and experience
- Minimum 3+ years’ experience in Financial Services, ideally in Custody, Registry, Superannuation or Funds Management Operations
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in either system or user acceptance testing
- Experience with process improvement and process documentation
- Exposure to test cycles and associated testing-related documentation

Key behaviors:

- Collaborate - Must be able to work in a co-operative manner with both internal and external teams and take all views and interests into account when formulating outcomes.
- Ensure Accountability - Must take full ownership of their assigned responsibilities and the outcomes that are generated and pursued, including any failures. This must extend to post-implementation and should encompass the assessment of benefits delivered.
- Develop Talent - Must be seen as a reference point for others, who are willing to pass on their knowledge to improve the overall level of understanding across the group. This should be via coaching, support, reviews and feedback.
- Communicate Effectively - Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently, both in written and verbal forms, across all levels of an organisation and all sizes of groups. Must also be able to listen to others and evidence that they have understood the needs communicated appropriately

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.