Sr Lead, SW Quality Engg

Job Description

investment management APPLICATion Sr Lead, SW Quality Eng This is an exciting time for Northern Trust and this individual would play an important role in the growth of teams under his/her remit. It is expected that this individual has considerable experience and strong technical background to gain the respect of senior software development staff. Suitable candidate must have a team development focus and prior hands-on experience with multiple aspects of development and delivery of applications. Strong automation resource adept with Java, Selenium, Cloud. Strong in building QA strategy across organisation and leading the QA Automation, performance and SRE initiatives. Leads testers across multiple projects and team in the automation solutions in Java, .Net, Python, Quant based solutions, Cloud migrations to meet business needs. Provides QA governance and management of multiple applications development efforts simultaneously across a multiple stakeholders and product owners. Liaison with several Chicago-based teams on projects, strategic architecture goals, resourcing requirements, and various project needs Develops long and short term QA strategy with all stakeholders. Strong understanding of various financial products and banking industry. Thoroughly understands decision process issues of technology choice, such as capacities, response time, data interfacing, client server communication, industry standard technologies and new industry trends, etc. Works closely with architects and other enterprise stakeholders to ensure solution alignment with best enterprise practices. Responsible for the performance management of the staff reporting to self. Responsible for maximising the effectiveness by building strong team/technical competencies. Help recruit, develop and mentor high performing and diverse teams across various workgroups. Promote teamwork in problem resolution. Foster an environment of open discussion, Ensures adherence to organizational policies, guidelines and processes Skills/ Experience Demonstrated leadership and cross functional collaboration experience Excellent communication skills Strong organizational and facilitation skills Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise tasks Ability to attract and retain top talent Requires an extensive knowledge of application development and support processes, usually having experience with multiple system technologies. Strong domain knowledge and experience working with a wide range of Financial Services / Asset Management technology platforms. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Strong knowledge of applying agile methodologies (Kanban, Iterative Waterfall, hybrid-Agile) and experience handling teams with different maturity of agile practices. Excellent consultative and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with client, partner, and IT management and staff. Engages in high level break/fix support during disaster recovery scenarios and assists with Production issues when higher level analysis is required. Thoroughly understands decision process issues of technology choice, such as capacities, response time, data interfacing, client server communication, industry standard technologies and new industry trends, etc. Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Minimum 15 years of overall experience, with at least 7 years in supervising/managing teams technology Skills Experience with emerging trends in technology such as Public/Private Cloud Technologies as it relates to Application development, PII management, Financial Services Regulations. Technical experience with various QA Automation tools, utilities, and frameworks such as Cucumber, Selenium, Java, C#, Python etc. Understanding of various performance testing frameworks and corresponding metrics. Interpret business requirement and functional requirements to assist testers in their job duties Good understanding of order life cycle, portfolio management and construction with knowledge in Asset Management will be preferred.