Sr Lead - Software Quality Engineering - Pune/Bangalore

Overview

Senior Lead for Software Quality Engineering at Northern Trust's Technology Development Centre, owning functional quality delivery for Trade, Securities, Accounting and Corporate Actions application changes and initiatives.

What you'll do

• Define test architecture, including scope, approach, entry/exit criteria, regression strategy, and quality gates.
• Accountable for functional test delivery across Securities platforms including Post-Trade, Settlements, Custody, Reconciliation, and Payments.
• Lead planning, execution, monitoring, and closure of functional and integration testing activities.
• Analyze business requirements, workflows, and dependencies to identify functional risks and coverage gaps.
• Accountable for functional defect triage, severity assessment, business impact articulation, and driving defects to resolution.
• Provide functional quality sign-off for releases, including clearly documented risks, constraints, and mitigation plans.
• Oversee end-to-end business flow validation across upstream and downstream systems.
• Act as an escalation point for functional quality risks, delivery issues, and readiness concerns.
• Drive consistent status reporting, RAID management, readiness reviews, and stakeholder communications.
• Mentor and guide QA team members, ensuring adherence to functional testing standards, practices, and delivery discipline.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives focused on test effectiveness, consistency, and functional coverage maturity.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 13+ years of experience in QA / Testing, preferably within Asset Servicing.
• Deep expertise in designing automation frameworks for Web, API, MQ, DB and mainframe systems.
• Strong programming ability in TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, Python or similar languages with CI/CD integration.
• Experience with containers, observability, test data, environment lifecycle, performance and reliability testing.
• Strong exposure to latest AI tools / technologies with exposure to agentic workflows.
• Proven experience owning functional QA delivery for complex, multi-system platforms.
• Strong understanding of Asset Servicing domains, particularly Post-Trade processing like settlements.
• In-depth knowledge of functional testing, integration testing, regression strategy, and release readiness practices.
• Knowledge of QA governance, audit readiness, and risk-based testing methodologies.
• Demonstrated leadership through ownership, accountability, and decision-making (Lead IC role).
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior stakeholders, product owners, and delivery teams.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with complex enterprise platforms supporting Capital Markets processing (BaNCS or similar).
• Understanding of interface concepts including APIs, file-based integrations, and messaging (SWIFT preferred).
• Exposure to hybrid QA models and automation impact analysis (hands-on automation not mandatory).

Details

• Location: Pune/Bangalore, India.
• Shift: EMEA, 12:30 PM to 9:30 PM IST.