Test Lead

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.

Position Summary

Lead end-to-end testing for complex business applications, integrations, data flows, and AI-enabled workflows. Own test planning, delivery coordination, defect governance, stakeholder reporting, and release-readiness recommendations. Provide hands-on direction to distributed test teams while ensuring coverage remains aligned with business risk and control requirements.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy, scope, estimates, milestones, resource plan, dependencies, and entry and exit criteria.

• Lead requirement and risk reviews; convert business needs, controls, and dependencies into prioritized, traceable test coverage.

• Lead functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, data, and user acceptance testing across multiple applications and environments.

• Coordinate onshore and offshore delivery; assign work, review test cases and evidence, remove blockers, and coach junior resources.

• Ensure test data, access, environments, interfaces, and upstream and downstream dependencies are ready before execution.

• Own defect governance, including triage, severity alignment, business impact, retesting, closure, and escalation.

• Report execution progress, coverage gaps, defects, dependencies, decisions, and residual risk to business and technology stakeholders.

• Maintain audit-ready traceability and evidence; prepare test summary reports and provide release-readiness recommendations.

• Develop and maintain automated tests for high-value regression scenarios.

• Build UI and API automation, troubleshoot failures, and improve coverage.

• Define expected results and test data; support framework and pipeline integration.

• Partner with product, development, operations, and platform teams to resolve quality risks and support timely release decisions.

Required Qualifications

• 9+ years of software testing experience, including leadership of complex application or workflow testing.

• Strong experience in test planning, estimation, execution management, defect governance, risk reporting, and release readiness.

• Experience leading distributed teams, coaching junior resources, managing competing priorities, and resolving delivery blockers.

• Ability to communicate status, risks, options, and recommendations clearly to senior business and technology stakeholders.

• Working knowledge of SQL, APIs, data validation, logs, environments, access controls, and test-data dependencies.

• Experience with Azure DevOps or a comparable tool for test management, defects, reporting, traceability, and evidence.

• Hands-on experience with Playwright or Selenium and API automation using REST Assured or a similar tool.

• Working knowledge of Java, TypeScript, or Python, source control, and delivery pipelines.

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial services or regulated-enterprise experience.

• Experience with workflow platforms such as Appian or Salesforce.

• Experience testing AI-enabled or agentic workflows.

• Relevant testing, Agile, cloud, or AI certification.

Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture, which has a strong history of financial strength and stability. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.

Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture. Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.

Reasonable Accommodation

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing adjustments to individuals with health conditions and disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at MyHRHelp@ntrs.com, or alternatively you can discuss your individual requirements with the recruiter you are working with.

About Our Pune Office

The Northern Trust Pune office, established in 2016, is now home to over 3,000 employees. The office handles various functions, including Operations for Asset Servicing and Wealth Management, as well as delivering critical technology solutions that support business operations across the globe.

Our Pune team takes our commitment to service to heart. In 2024, they volunteered more than 10,000+ hours into the communities where they live and work. Learn more.