About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world's most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM) business unit is looking for Lead Automation QA Engineer with strong expertise validating data centered application. The role is high touch position with a notable amount of collaboration across teams in validating business solutions.

This individual is a multi-tasker at heart, with strong communication skills and a problem-solving mindset that thrives in a fast-paced organization. The ideal candidate would engage NTAM business leaders, understanding business needs, documenting test scripts and validating the solution.

Key skills required for the role:

• Expertise in running data focused QA testing on Snowflake for complex business needs.


• Strong QA foundation and ability to perform Integration testing, back-end testing, database validation skills and end to end manual testing.


• Background working with key data domains as account, holding and performance within asset management space.


• Hands on experience with one of the following programming language - Java, Python.


• Extensive experience in Frontend, backend Testing and API Testing.


• Hands on experience designing, developing and maintaining automation frameworks for enterprise application.


• Database experience with SQL, snowflake or any relational databases.


• Experience with end to end regression testing experience.


• Basic knowledge of CI/CD, Azure DevOps and GitHub essential.


• Knowledge of ETL patterns for data ingestion, processing, distribution and reporting.


• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Business or Finance or equivalent experience.


• Intellectual curiosity, inclination for independent and self-directed work, and attention to detail.


• Manage relationships with stakeholders and executive leadership to achieve business outcomes.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Prepare Test deliverables like detailed Test Plan, detailed Test cases, Regression Test Suite Test Results and Defect documentation.


• Create and maintain Automation Test Suite and trace it to manual Test Suite in Azure Devops.


• Understanding requirements from a business perspective and validate through testing and assessing them in the context of an Agile/Scrum delivery model


• Deliver a bug free application to UAT/production by constantly looking for ways to uncover Defects with the use of complex real time test data.


• Collaborate with Product Owners and Business Leads to refine and improve Test Coverage and deliver Quality


• Support User Acceptance testing with End users and Product Owners


• Define Testing Strategy and Automation Guidelines of Data Platform


• Review test deliverables (test Cases, test Results and automation test scripts) from peers


• Understand the SDLC activities expected to deliver custom developed applications


• Assess and defining nonfunctional test scope (performance/security testing as needed)


• Recommend improvements into overall best practices, design, testability, quality, and test Reports.


• Identify and document best practices that our teams rely on to release with the highest quality and on schedule


• Generate QA Dashboards to depict test Metrics especially around test automation


• Manage relationships with all stakeholders, with a focus on setting expectations and maintaining ongoing client satisfaction through effective communication.


• Mentor QA engineering team on data input, use and analysis leveraging testing pattern.


• Contribute to a fast-paced Agile team and participate in multiple aspects of planning, documentation, execution, testing and launch of projects.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.

Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater

Reasonable accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com .

We hope you're excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.