at Northern Trust Company in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
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.
Who We Are: Northern Trust is a Chicago-based bank with more than 20 international locations and 16,500 employees. From sovereign wealth funds to the wealthiest individuals and families, the world's most sophisticated clients rely on Northern Trust every day. The Northern Trust Corporate & Institutional Services (C&IS) Organization supports a range of end-to-end middle and back office processes that service asset managers and asset owners across the Trade Settlement, Fund Administration, Custody Accounting & Administration and Prime Services. Our leading technology solutions enable businesses to drive growth, improve client and employee experiences, and protect confidential data.
The Shared Services Technology Department is looking for a candidate to be self-motivated, enthusiastic, nimble and pragmatic individual to join our team as a test architect. As a tech architect within our team, you will be responsible for the overall test automation strategy, tools, technology, and process for Quality Engineering.
Job Responsibilities:
- Technical leadership & innovation for test strategy
- Improve production stability via maturity in Quality Engineering practices
- Promote best practices for Root Cause Analysis
- Advance product quality via testing innovations and process improvement
- Collaborate with Product Owners, BAs, Architects & Developers in designing testable applications
- DevOps initiatives in collaboration with Development, Business & Testing partners
- Advocate & implement appropriate industry trends (i.e. Chaos Engineering, Accessibility Testing, Low Code/No Code Automation, etc)
- Promote and support implementation of CI/CT/CD pipeline
- Develop & extend test automation frameworks for UI, Micro services, and API
- Recommend new tools, techniques & methods for enhancing productivity
- Conduct test design reviews & standardize automation code
- Resolve technical issues, anticipate risks & ensure timely management escalation
- Work with Test Capabilities Engineers to leverage existing assets and develop new ones
- Analysis, optimization, improvement & maintenance of current test automation suites
- Work with stakeholders to plan, estimate & implement test automation
- Ensure compliance to automation framework, standards & best practices
- Facilitate automated, on-demand test automation metrics
- Understand , influence and direct testing for cloud journey
- Automation first mindset and should be able to influence application architecture to test first philosophy
- Deep understanding of Shift left testing practices increasing code coverage on change
- Provide training and guidance to QA and development partners on best practices , tool and advanced automation techniques
- Continuously optimize automated testing processes , frameworks and scripts for improved Test Cycle Time
- Work with BA and Dev Partners to ensure availability of required test data for independent test script execution
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