Principal Quality Engineer: Enterprise Automation Leader

ntrs

Chicago (IL)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Principal, Quality Engineering to lead its Corporate Applications testing team in Chicago. This role drives the overall quality strategy across multiple agile teams, emphasizing automation-first testing, release governance, and continuous quality signals to enable frequent deployments.

The ideal candidate will combine strong leadership with banking-domain expertise and deep QE practice knowledge, partnering with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Risk, Operations,

Qualifications

  • 14-18 years of overall software/QA experience.
  • Minimum 8 years in Quality Engineering.
  • 5+ years in a leadership role.

Responsibilities

  • Provide thought leadership and mentorship for test automation.
  • Advance product quality through testing innovations and process improvements.
  • Collaborate with BAs, Architects & Developers to design testable applications.
  • Develop technical roadmaps for enterprise/test strategies.
  • Lead and manage enterprise-level QA programs and dashboards.

Skills

Leadership
Test automation
Stakeholder collaboration
Quality engineering

Tools

Azure DevOps
Selenium with Java
Playwright
DevOps concepts

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Principal, Quality Engineering to lead its Corporate Applications testing team in Chicago. This role drives the overall quality strategy across multiple agile teams, emphasizing automation-first testing, release governance, and continuous quality signals to enable frequent deployments.

The ideal candidate will combine strong leadership with banking-domain expertise and deep QE practice knowledge, partnering with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Risk, Operations,

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