Principal QA Engineer, Securities Finance Automation

Northern Trust Corp.

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 115,000 - 195,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

401k and pension

Health and welfare benefits

Paid time off

Parental and caregiver leave

Life & accident insurance

Discretionary bonus program

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Principal, Software Quality Engineering to provide technical and quality leadership for Capital Markets Securities Finance. You will define end-to-end test strategy, own automation frameworks, and drive data/API validation across complex platforms with global teams.

The role requires deep Securities Finance knowledge, strong leadership, and proven experience delivering quality across multi-team financial systems. A cloud-ready, CI/CD-enabled environment is emphasized.

Qualifications

Securities Finance domain knowledge: strong understanding of securities lending/financing workflows.
Quality engineering strategy for large, integrated financial systems.
Experience building scalable test automation frameworks and data validation.
CI/CD integration of automated quality checks.
SQL data testing across relational/data warehouses.
API and microservices testing across services and data layers.
Performance testing for application or program level.
Ability to lead, communicate quality risk and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the Securities Finance quality engineering strategy across tests and non-functional areas.
Advance product quality through testing innovation and automation practices.
Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects and Developers to set quality requirements early.
Develop roadmaps and implementation plans for program-level test strategies.
Lead end-to-end test cycles across applications and global teams.
Design PoCs for new quality engineering capabilities.
Identify risks, perform root-cause analysis and ensure timely mitigation.
Maintain automation frameworks and expand coverage for high-risk workflows.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines for early feedback.
Lead data validation across databases and ETL/ELT pipelines.
Design and execute API, microservices, integration and performance testing at program level.
Provide metrics and reporting to stakeholders; mentor distributed teams.