Sr Lead - Software Quality Engineering - Pune/Bangalore
Northern Trust5 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own functional test delivery across securities platforms, including post-trade, settlements, custody, reconciliation, and payments.
- Define test architecture, scope, entry and exit criteria, regression strategy, and quality gates.
- Lead planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of functional and integration testing activities.
- Analyze requirements, workflows, and dependencies to identify functional risks and coverage gaps.
- Manage defect triage, severity assessment, business impact analysis, and defect resolution.
- Provide documented functional quality sign-off for releases, including risks, constraints, and mitigation plans.
- Oversee end-to-end business-flow validation across upstream and downstream systems.
- Act as an escalation point for quality risks, delivery issues, and release readiness concerns.
- Drive status reporting, RAID management, readiness reviews, and stakeholder communications.
- Mentor QA team members and promote consistent testing standards and delivery practices.
- Contribute to continuous improvement in test effectiveness, consistency, and functional coverage maturity.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 13+ years of experience in QA or testing, preferably within asset servicing.
- Deep expertise designing automation frameworks for web, API, MQ, database, and mainframe systems.
- Strong programming ability in TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, Python, or similar languages.
- Experience with CI/CD integration, containers, observability, test data, environment lifecycle, performance testing, and reliability testing.
- Strong exposure to current AI tools and technologies and agentic workflows.
- Strong understanding of asset servicing, particularly post-trade processing and settlements.
- In-depth knowledge of functional testing, integration testing, regression strategy, and release readiness.
- Familiarity with complex enterprise capital-markets platforms such as BaNCS or similar systems.
- Understanding of APIs, file-based integrations, and messaging, with SWIFT preferred.
- Knowledge of QA governance, audit readiness, and risk-based testing methodologies.
- Experience owning functional QA delivery for complex, multi-system platforms.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, defect-management, stakeholder-communication, and influencing skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, risks, and delivery timelines concurrently.
- Exposure to hybrid QA models and automation impact analysis; hands-on automation is not mandatory.
- Demonstrated leadership through ownership, accountability, and decision-making in a lead individual-contributor role.
- Ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, product owners, and delivery teams.
Benefits
- EMEA shift schedule from 12:30 PM to 9:30 PM IST.
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with opportunities for internal movement and access to senior leaders.
- Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodation support for individuals with health conditions and disabilities.
- Bangalore office amenities include the Arrival Hub - Jungle, GameZone, and Employee Experience Zone.
- Opportunities to participate in company philanthropy and community service.
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About Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a financial services company that provides asset servicing (custody and fund administration), asset management, wealth management, and banking/treasury services to institutions, corporations, and affluent families. Its business model centers on fees for assets under custody/administration and management, plus banking services. Founded in 1889 and headquartered in Chicago, it is publicly traded on Nasdaq (NTRS) and serves clients across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.