Infrastructure Quality & Test Lead

About Northern Trust

As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking services, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families, corporations and institutions.

Since 1889, we have aligned our efforts with our three guiding Principles That Endure: Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Together, they reflect the three cornerstones of business conduct which we strive to instill in our employees, whom we call partners, and to provide to our clients and the communities we serve worldwide.

With more than 135 years of financial experience and over 24,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Job Overview:

The Database SQM Infra Test Delivery Lead holds distinct responsibilities for ensuring the quality of infrastructure-related database initiatives and changes, including patching, upgrades, integrations, certifications, and emergency fixes.

Responsible for Infrastructure Test Strategy for Infra Changes and Projects

The lead is responsible for general project management elements like planning, execution, monitoring, testing, and project closure to embed quality delivery for infrastructure Engineering & Operations projects

Primary expectation is to manage program demand intake, quality delivery, test planning, schedules, risks and issues, incident analysis.

Accountable to deliver estimate efforts, track financials, hold monthly meetings with Infra leadership and address failed changes incidents and identify do better opportunities.

Accountable to drive quality efficiencies and effectiveness using automated solutions for Database changes, testing life cycle and change process optimization

Provide feedback to stakeholders on Qualiweety Roadmap, including automation opportunities

Influence and communicate effectively with both technical & non-technical audiences

Contribute to increasing automated testing capabilities to ensure success of infrastructure database projects or system changes

Roles & Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and expertise within the infrastructure field to deliver quality programs and projects in-house and on-shore for Infrastructure database products and tools.

Responsible for Infrastructure test delivery for Database infrastructure changes and projects leveraging test automation and collaborating with application testers and IT leaders

Responsible for building and maintaining productive working relationship like planning, execution, monitoring, testing, and project closure to embed quality delivery for infrastructure management & Operations projects

Analyze Database change schedules working with Engineering partners to drive test strategies and plan for developing testing coverage and scenarios.

Lead and manage quality delivery of Database change to avoid business impact, including handling incidents, defect, issues to resolution.

Accountable to drive quality efficiencies and effectiveness using automated solutions for Database changes, testing life cycle and change process optimization applying the ITIL process methodology and tools like ServiceNow

Responsible for defining Infra Test Delivery strategy, approach and execution for change requests.

Be accountable for the test coordination and mentor Infra Test Delivery Team and participate in interviews, induction, and training

Ensuring that the application teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the Infra Test Delivery strategy as defined.

Build and maintain quality standards and ensure application teams deliver quality testing to validate infra changes by utilizing technical automated test assets and discipline.

Lead and manage Infra Test Delivery activities such as understanding infra change impacts, prep test plans, perform test execution, deliver test results metrics to key stakeholders

Accountable for performing root cause analysis for continuous change quality improvement to drive production stability in the infrastructure test delivery programs.

Be an escalation point for project and change deliver, issue and risk management and stakeholder communications

Serve as a team lead and plan required talent, capacity and growth to build a robust motivated delivery team

Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills using the big picture understanding of core Infrastructure components and architecture

Lead the coordinate testing with the application teams and Infra change team during infrastructure changes and provide support throughout the resolution

Collaborate and present program status weekly and monthly cadence with Infrastructure leadership partners and executives

Required Knowledge

Familiar with Automated Testing Types, Environments, Frameworks (Linear,Modular,Data-Driven..etc)

Solid understanding and some experience in various testing discipline concepts: functional testing, regression testing, smoke testing, non-functional requirement testing, and smoke testing

Test lifecycle experience in delivering high quality infrastructure changes with minimal impacts to applications (test planning, test scenario build, test execution, defect/issue management and test health metrics and status reporting)

Test management experience including soliciting requirements, producing test strategy, effort estimation and test schedules.

Good understanding of Computer Systems Architecture and Data Center Services and Operations.

Infrastructure Administration, Automation Concepts, Diagnostics and Troubleshooting.

COTS Products LifeCycle, Patching, Upgrades and Deployment into Environments (Dev/Test/UAT/Prod).

Concepts and Tools of Infrastructure Servers Virtualization, Middleware (Web Servers) ,Storage

Management(NAS/SAN), Database Management (RDBMS/SQL,NOSQL), and Network LAN/WAN.

Monitoring, Alerting, and Scheduling Tools and Services (Control-M,Pandora,Splunk,Grafana..etc).

Service Levels Agreements (SLAs),Service Levels Objectives (SLOs),Service Level Indicators(SLIs).

Application of ITIL Service Management Concepts and Tools such as ServiceNow(Incident, Problem, Change, Release, CMDB…etc.)

Familiarity of Agile Methodology Scrum/Kanban and project tracking tools like Azure Devops and Jira

Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Service Now, Jira

Required Skills

Good understanding of Database Patching, Upgrades, Security fixes, APIs, Integration, Protocols & Frameworks

Familiarity with Database technologies such as : MS SQL, , Hadoop, Oracle/Exadata and DB2

Automation skillset: Python Programming, Unix Shell scripting, Selenium and Java.

Personal Qualifications & Skills

Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field, 12+ Years Experience in Infrastructure change testing life cycle/Software Testing LifeCycle

Related Certifications in areas of Computer Infrastructure, Testing, and Project Management.

Provide leadership , build and maintaining relationships with Stakeholders.

Ability to organize and prioritize work and tasks under pressure.

Strong troubleshooting mindset and inquisitive mind sets

Ability to handle conflict effectively.

Able to communicate with all levels of management and peers within the organization, written and verbal.

Flexible with the ability to and work under pressure, work based on the infrastructure change schedule and weekends

Proactive, strong-minded, quick thinker and assertive.

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 committed to an inclusive workplace and assisting the communities we serve.

Philanthropy is deeply rooted in Northern Trust’s history and