SQM Test Lead - FA/TA

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Role Description:

Software Quality Engineer with expertise in distributed systems with 5-8 years of IT experience. As a Quality Engineer, he/she should ensure the performance, scalability, reliability of NT complex applications maintained in non-PROD environments, diverse technologies, and Cloud environments. The individual will work closely with various stakeholders in an agile fashion, to jointly own the solution, and strong communication and management skill to interface well with other parts of the organization.

The role is responsible for building and maintaining stable, scalable, production-like non-PROD environments, ensuring high-quality and compliant test data availability, and enabling end-to-end testing across complex systems

Responsibilities:

Environment Build & Management

- Design, build, and maintain stable test environments

- Replicate production configurations and dependencies

- Define environment strategy (INT, UAT)

- Monitor environment health and resolve issues

- Perform root cause analysis for failures

Test Data Management & Setup

- Define test data strategy and sourcing approaches

- Execute test data provisioning and refresh cycles

- Perform data validation and reconciliation using SQL