Test Lead – Functional & Automation Testing

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About Ntrs

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.

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.

Employees around the world give their time and talent to work for the greater good of their communities.

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.

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Responsibilities

• Hands-on Test Lead responsible for functional testing, automation, and release readiness across applications and integrations.
• Lead testers, partner with stakeholders, maintain frameworks and pipelines, and test AI and agentic workflows.
• Balance manual testing and automation to meet project needs.
• Own test plan and strategy, scope, estimates, capacity, schedules, dependencies, risk coverage, and entry/exit criteria.
• Translate requirements and acceptance criteria into traceable positive, negative, boundary, exception, and end-to-end tests.
• Execute functional, integration, exploratory, regression, and data tests; coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Build and maintain UI, API, and regression automation using Playwright, Selenium, REST Assured, or equivalent tools.
• Extend reusable frameworks with maintainable code, source control, peer reviews, and documentation.
• Prioritize automation by risk, repeatability, stability, and cost; retain manual testing where judgment is needed.
• Integrate pipeline and scheduled runs, including configuration, evidence, reporting, and cross-browser/parallel coverage.
• Diagnose failures and flaky tests; resolve application, automation, data, access, and environment issues.
• Validate APIs, databases, integrations, and downstream results using SQL, logs, API tools, and assertions.
• Manage data, access, environment readiness, and coverage across test, UAT, and pre-production.
• Lead defect closure; maintain traceability, evidence, and release reporting in Azure DevOps or equivalent tools.
• Lead testers, review tests and code, mentor staff, and communicate capacity, dependencies, risks, and recovery plans.
• Use approved AI tools with human review and data protection to improve tests, code, and reliability.
• Plan scope, estimates, capacity, dependencies, risk coverage, execution, and entry/exit criteria.
• Design positive, negative, boundary, exploratory, role-based, and exception tests.
• Validate integrations, business journeys, regression, and data flows; coordinate UAT.
• Document defects and evidence; lead impact assessment, triage, retesting, and closure.
• Maintain traceability and report progress, residual risks, and release readiness.
• Lead testers, manage capacity and handoffs, review work, and resolve blockers.
• Validate services and data with SQL, APIs, assertions, and logs; manage environment dependencies.
• Build UI/API automation; extend frameworks, review code, and stabilize tests using relevant tools and languages.
• Use Git and pull requests; manage pipeline/scheduled runs, reporting, evidence, and controls.
• Validate accuracy, grounding, actions, approvals, exceptions, and recovery with specialist support.
• Use approved AI tools with human review, data protection, and auditable evidence.

Requirements

• Qualifications Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 9+ years in functional testing, automation , and test leadership, or equivalent experience.
• Ownership of test planning, estimates, requirements, design, execution, defects, and release reporting.
• Functional, integration, end-to-end, exploratory, regression, data testing, and UAT experience.
• Playwright, Selenium, or equivalent; proficiency in TypeScript, Java, Python, or another relevant language.
• Framework extension, reusable components, debugging, and code review; enterprise architecture expertise not required.
• API testing, API automation, and SQL for service, data, and business validation.
• Git, pull requests, and pipeline execution using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Azure DevOps or equivalent for test management, defects, reporting, and traceability.
• Risk-based manual/automation planning and management of data, access, and environment dependencies.
• Team leadership, test reviews, and clear business and technical risk communication.
• Functional & Automation Competencies Business and Requirements Analysis: Convert requirements into traceable manual and automated tests with clear outcomes.

Preferred

• Qualifications Financial services or regulated testing, business controls, and traceable evidence.
• Appian, Salesforce, or comparable workflow platform testing.
• Advanced frameworks, cross-browser/parallel testing, service virtualization, or automation architecture.
• Cloud exposure and coordination with performance, security, or accessibility specialists.
• Testing, test management, Agile, automation, cloud, or AI quality certifications.
• 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.

Benefits

• Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and is an essential element of our culture.