QA Accessibility Engineer - PA26Q3QAJH96

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
SS&C Calastone
SS&C is the largest global investor service provider, servicing more than 55 million investors. Continually investing in global technology and services across the spectrum of distribution channels including Asset Managers, Financial Advisors, Wealth Managers and large financial institutions such as Banks and Insurers.

Calastone
is the largest global funds network, connecting the world’s leading financial organisations. Our mission is to reduce complexity, risk and costs, enabling the industry to deliver greater value to investors. More than 4,500 clients in 58 countries and territories benefit from Calastone’s services, processing over £250 billion of investment value each month. Calastone is headquartered in London with offices in Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, New York, Sydney, and India.

About The Role
Reporting to a senior member of the QA team, the QA Engineer will be primarily responsible for accessibility testing across Calastone’s client-facing web applications, ensuring compliance with WCAG 2.1/2.2 (Level AA) standards and delivering an inclusive user experience.

The role combines automated accessibility testing using Playwright with Axe integration, and manual accessibility evaluation using WAVE and Axe Chrome browser extensions. As a secondary focus, the role provides a pathway into broader UI test automation using Playwright — a highly transferable skill that strengthens both the individual’s career and the team’s overall automation capability.

The QA team uses AI-augmented workflows (Claude Code, MCP integrations) to accelerate test design, execution, and defect analysis. You will be expected to adopt these tools as part of your day-to-day work.

Your Responsibilities
Accessibility Testing (Primary Focus)

• Build and maintain automated accessibility test suites using Playwright + Axe (@axe-core/playwright), integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Perform manual accessibility audits using WAVE and Axe Chrome extensions, covering keyboard navigation, colour contrast, ARIA attributes, focus management, and screen reader compatibility.
• Triage and document accessibility defects with WCAG success criteria references and remediation guidance.
• Collaborate with front-end developers and UX designers to identify and fix accessibility barriers early in the development cycle.
• Champion accessibility best practices and contribute to internal standards documentation.

UI Test Automation (Transferable Skill)

• Develop and maintain Playwright-based UI test automation including functional, visual regression, and cross-browser testing.
• Build reusable page object models and test fixtures using C# and BDD tools (Reqnroll/SpecFlow).
• Automate REST API testing using Playwright or HttpClient.
• Support CI/CD integration via GitHub Actions.

AI-Enhanced QA Practices

• Use AI coding agents (Claude Code) and MCP server integrations to accelerate test creation, defect triage, and impact analysis.
• Contribute to prompt engineering and refinement of QA AI skills.

Collaboration

• Work with Engineering, Product, Operations, and DevOps teams to understand testing needs and priorities.
• Share knowledge and promote best practices across the QA team.
• Partner with developers to identify, document, and resolve defects.

What You’ll Bring

• Practical accessibility testing experience hands-on auditing of web applications against WCAG 2.1/2.2 (Level AA) using Axe, WAVE, keyboard navigation, and screen readers (NVDA).
• Proficient with Axe Chrome DevTools and WAVE browser extensions, and familiar with integrating Axe into automated pipelines.
• UI test automation experience using Playwright (strongly preferred), Selenium WebDriver, or Cypress with maintainable page object models.
• Strong object-oriented programming skills in C# (preferred) or Java, with experience using BDD tools (Reqnroll/SpecFlow).
• Experience using AI coding assistants (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) to generate or enhance code.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices with GitHub Actions (YAML).
• Strong grasp of QA methodologies, agile processes, and software testing principles.
• Clear communicator, effective with both technical and business stakeholders in a distributed team.

Desirable

• Deep knowledge of ARIA roles, states, and properties and interaction with assistive technologies (NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver).
• Experience integrating accessibility checks into CI/CD pipelines as automated quality gates.
• Experience with visual regression testing (Playwright visual comparisons, Percy, or Applitools).
• Experience testing within financial technology (XML, JSON, FIX, SFTP, Swift messaging formats).
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations and AI agent workflows.
• Understanding of European Mutual Funds and/or ETF markets.
• SQL query skills and relational database experience.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Datadog, or Azure Service Bus/AKS environments.
• ISTQB certification (or equivalent).

Person Specification

• Passionate about accessibility and inclusive design — advocates for users with disabilities.
• Committed to quality, continuous improvement, and coding best practices.
• Curious about AI and emerging technologies with a proactive mindset.
• Calm, focused, and effective under pressure with strong analytical skills.
• Collaborative in multidisciplinary, geographically distributed agile teams.
• Takes ownership, follows issues to root cause, and delivers results independently.
• Communicates clearly and confidently, both in writing and verbally.
• Adapts quickly to change and embraces innovation.

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of 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.

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.

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.