Infrastructure Quality & Test Lead

Northern Trust; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work culture

Strong history of stability

Movement within the organization

Inclusive workplace

Reasonable accommodation for disabilities

Job summary

Northern Trust is looking for a Database SQM Infra Test Delivery Lead in Pune, India. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of infrastructure-related database initiatives, including patching, integrations, and certifications.

Your expertise will guide test management, coordinate with application teams, and provide technical leadership to deliver quality programs. You should have over 12 years of experience in the infrastructure change testing lifecycle and hold relevant certifications.

We offer a flexible and collaborative work culture, promoting inclusivity and movement within the organization.

Qualifications

• 12+ years experience in infrastructure change testing life cycle/software testing life cycle.
• Experience in delivering high-quality infrastructure changes with minimal impacts.
• Related certifications in areas of computer infrastructure, testing, and project management.

Responsibilities

• Manage program demand intake, quality delivery, and test planning.
• Provide technical leadership for infrastructure database changes.
• Coordinate testing with application teams during infrastructure changes.

Skills

Automated Testing Types

Functional Testing

Regression Testing

Test Management

Agile Methodology Scrum/Kanban

Python Programming

Unix Shell Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

ServiceNow

Control-M

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

Role Overview

The Database SQM Infra Test Delivery Lead holds distinct responsibilities for ensuring the quality of infrastructure-related database initiatives and changes, including patching, upgrades, integrations, certifications, and emergency fixes. Responsible for Infrastructure Test Strategy for Infra Changes and Projects. Primary expectation is to manage program demand intake, quality delivery, test planning, schedules, risks and issues, incident analysis.

What You Will Do

Provide technical leadership and expertise within the infrastructure field to deliver quality programs and projects in-house and on-shore for Infrastructure database products and tools. Responsible for Infrastructure test delivery for Database infrastructure changes and projects leveraging test automation and collaborating with application testers and IT leaders.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills using the big picture understanding of core Infrastructure components and architecture. Lead the coordinate testing with the application teams and Infra change team during infrastructure changes and provide support throughout the resolution.

Requirements

• Familiar with Automated Testing Types, Environments, Frameworks (Linear, Modular, Data-Driven, etc)
• Solid understanding and some experience in various testing discipline concepts: functional testing, regression testing, smoke testing, non-functional requirement testing, and smoke testing
• Test lifecycle experience in delivering high quality infrastructure changes with minimal impacts to applications (test planning, test scenario build, test execution, defect/issue management and test health metrics and status reporting)
• Test management experience including soliciting requirements, producing test strategy, effort estimation and test schedules
• Good understanding of Computer Systems Architecture and Data Center Services and Operations
• Infrastructure Administration, Automation Concepts, Diagnostics and Troubleshooting
• COTS Products LifeCycle, Patching, Upgrades and Deployment into Environments (Dev/Test/UAT/Prod)
• Concepts and Tools of Infrastructure Servers Virtualization, Middleware (Web Servers), Storage Management (NAS/SAN), Database Management (RDBMS/SQL, NoSQL), and Network LAN/WAN
• Monitoring, Alerting, and Scheduling Tools and Services (Control-M, Pandora, Splunk, Grafana, etc.)
• Service Levels Agreements (SLAs), Service Levels Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs)
• Application of ITIL Service Management Concepts and Tools such as ServiceNow (Incident, Problem, Change, Release, CMDB, etc.)
• Familiarity of Agile Methodology Scrum/Kanban and project tracking tools like Azure DevOps and Jira
• Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, ServiceNow, Jira
• Good understanding of Database Patching, Upgrades, Security fixes, APIs, Integration, Protocols & Frameworks
• Familiarity with Database technologies such as MS SQL, Hadoop, Oracle/Exadata and DB2
• Automation skillset: Python Programming, Unix Shell scripting, Selenium and Java
• Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field, 12+ Years Experience in Infrastructure change testing life cycle/Software Testing LifeCycle
• Related Certifications in areas of Computer Infrastructure, Testing, and Project Management

Benefits

• Flexible and collaborative work culture
• Strong history of financial strength and stability
• Movement within the organization is encouraged
• Senior leaders are accessible
• Inclusive workplace
• Assisting the communities we serve
• Reasonable accommodation for individuals with health conditions and disabilities