Sr Lead SW Quality Engineer
Northern Trust3 days ago
Base Salary
$96k - $162k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and own testing strategies and plans for large-scale Corporate Applications implementations.
- Lead test strategy, planning, execution, coordination, reporting, metrics, and quality improvement across multiple agile teams.
- Drive automation-first testing across UI, microservices, and APIs using modern quality engineering practices.
- Analyze, optimize, improve, and maintain test automation suites and shared automation libraries.
- Promote automated CI/CT/CD pipelines and ensure tests run early and frequently for rapid feedback.
- Develop release-confidence frameworks, enterprise quality dashboards, and quality scorecards to support go/no-go decisions.
- Identify defect root causes, resolve technical issues, anticipate risks, and manage escalations.
- Lead and mentor quality engineers and contractors across globally distributed teams, vendors, and partners.
- Collaborate with business analysts, architects, developers, Product, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Finance, and business stakeholders.
- Apply AI-enabled quality engineering solutions to improve productivity, test coverage, and defect prevention.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
- 10–15 years of overall experience, including at least 8 years in quality engineering.
- 5–8 years of experience implementing test strategy, planning, execution, coordination, reporting, metrics, and quality improvement.
- 5–8 years of experience leading quality engineers or contractors.
- Experience managing globally distributed teams across multiple vendors and partners.
- Experience in banking, financial services, regulatory compliance, corporate finance applications, risk technologies, or payment and financial processing systems.
- Strong knowledge of software development life cycle and Agile development practices.
- Lead-level experience with Java, Selenium or LeanFT, BDD using Cucumber or JBehave, TestNG, Eclipse or IntelliJ, and Playwright.
- Experience with Maven, Git, BitBucket, and Azure DevOps within DevOps and CI/CD toolsets.
- Expertise in quality assurance processes, techniques, and methodologies, with strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience leading large-scale end-to-end testing initiatives and cross-functional global teams.
- Preferred exposure to AI-enabled software testing and next-generation quality engineering solutions.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including 401(k) and pension retirement benefits.
- Medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, disability, life, and accident insurance benefits.
- Paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, and other voluntary and well-being benefits.
- Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with opportunities for internal mobility and accessible senior leadership.
- Chicago, Illinois work location; applicants must already be authorized to work in the United States without employment-based visa sponsorship.
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.