
Lead, Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)
Northern Trust21 hours ago
Pune, India or Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and enhance enterprise test automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, unit, regression, and end-to-end testing.
- Lead large-scale automated test execution across multiple applications and development, test, staging, and production environments.
- Identify and eliminate flaky tests, intermittent failures, synchronization issues, dependency failures, test-data issues, environment instability, and configuration-related failures.
- Troubleshoot, refactor, and optimize automation scripts for reliability, maintainability, execution speed, error handling, recovery, and reusability.
- Analyze execution failures and drive root-cause fixes across application, automation, environment, data, access, configuration, and infrastructure issues.
- Build unattended automation with logging, reporting, diagnostics, rerun and recovery mechanisms, and execution monitoring.
- Validate code promotions, releases, deployments, and application or platform changes.
- Integrate automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
- Apply GitHub Copilot, generative AI, and AI-assisted testing for test creation, code improvement, failure analysis, and automation maintenance.
- Provide technical leadership through automation architecture, coding standards, code reviews, mentoring, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 10–13 years of relevant experience in Java test automation and SDLC release management.
- Strong expertise in DevOps.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree.
- Experience in financial domain services is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible and collaborative work culture with opportunities for internal movement and access to senior leaders.
- Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodation support and community-philanthropy opportunities.
- APAC shift in Pune: 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM IST.
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.