Northern Trust Corp. Looking for Analyst, IT Quality Assurance at Pune, Maharashtra Full Time

About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust provides innovative financial services and guidance to corporations, institutions and affluent families and individuals globally. With over 130 years of financial experience and nearly 20,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

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. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company that is committed to strengthening the communities we serve!

We recognize the value of inclusion and diversity in culture, in thought, and in experience, which is why we are honored to receive the following awards in 2021:

Gender Equality Index Member, Bloomberg

Top Financial & Banking Company, Black EOE Journal, Hispanic Network Magazine, Professional WOMAN’S Magazine

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of America’s best banks and most sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today.

What You Will Do:
We are looking for Automation Engineer to develop automation capabilities, execute, control, monitor and improve the quality of product/data needed for key business processes for financial products. In this role, you should have a keen eye for detail and excellent communication skills. Oversee System, Integration, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance Testing activities. Ultimately, you will ensure that our data and our data processing are correct providing significant value to our business.

Major Duties:
Designing and developing test automation scripts

Researching issues in software through testing

Collaborating with QA Analysts and Software Developers to develop solutions

Reviewing quality specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback

Applying various designs and documenting the automation test strategy.

Creating, enhancing, debugging, and running the test cases

Collating and monitoring the defect management process

Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases

Execute automation scripts using open source tools

Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs

Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved

Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs

Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements

Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement solutions

Recommend changes to Testing processes and procedures to continuously improve QA.

Ability in contributing to multiple projects in fast-paced environment.

Led continuous process improvement activities for project group

Education:
5+ years of overall industry experience

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related discipline

Experience as a test automation engineer

Key Knowledge and Required Skills:
Hands-on experience with automated testing tools – Selenium and Cucumber

Good development/scripting skills in one of the common languages such as Java and good understanding of JavaScript and language-specific client libraries

Strong API testing experience and testing UI using java frameworks along with Selenium-web driver skills

Test Automation Framework Design

Knowledge of fundamentals of QA methodology.

Good knowledge in SQL is must and PL/SQL is preferable

Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes

Basic knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Bamboo and version control tools like Bitbucket.

Ability to understand and develop customized testing tool capabilities as needed by Application under test.

Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases

Ability to understand and develop customized testing tool capabilities as needed by Application under test

Preferred/ Recommended:
ETL (extract, transform, load) development experience is preferred

Financial sector activities would be an advantage.

Knowledge of Azure/AWS/Google Cloud

Familiarity with Agile & DevOps methodologies

Zephyr tool

Excellent reporting, time management, analytical & communication capabilities.

General Requirements

Fluent written & verbal English.

Be industrious and attentive to details

Strong analytical, numerical and problem solving skills are required.

Experience of analysis, documentation and implementation of critical business solutions, utilizing many technologies, over tight business defined time-scales, using common software development life cycle methodologies is required.

Strong understanding of Software Development Lifecycle

Willingness to explore/learn new technologies and adapt to future development directions.

Self-starter and works effectively with minimal direction, initiative to solution/troubleshoot in coordination with multiple groups (vendor/business/technology)

The ability to work successfully as part of a team and independently is required.

Investment management technologies experience would be an advantage.

A proactive and self-motivated attitude is a vital part of this role, as is a flexible approach to work hours.