Principal, SW Quality Eng

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.

We are seeking a Principal, Software Quality Engineering professional to provide technical and quality leadership for Capital Markets Securities Finance. The role requires strong Securities Finance domain knowledge combined with end-to-end testing strategy, automation engineering, data/API validation, performance testing and quality governance. The individual will partner with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, Developers and global technology teams to drive scalable, risk-based quality engineering across complex Securities Finance platforms and integrated workflows.

Key Differentiators Deep Securities Finance expertise: strong understanding of the securities lending and financing lifecycle, including trade capture, inventory/availability, collateral, pricing, settlement, recalls/returns, corporate actions and downstream processing.

Principal-level quality leadership: ability to define end-to-end test strategy, quality standards, governance, risk-based coverage and release-readiness criteria across complex programs.

Engineering-led automation: technical ownership of reusable automation frameworks, regression suites, data validation and CI/CD-integrated quality checks.

Complex integration testing: ability to validate front-to-back workflows spanning applications, APIs, messaging, data pipelines and downstream platforms.

Responsibilities Define and drive the Securities Finance quality engineering strategy across functional, integration, regression, data, API and non-functional testing.

Advance product quality through testing innovation, engineering practices and continuous process improvement.

Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects and Developers to design testable solutions and establish quality requirements early in the SDLC.Develop technical roadmaps and implementation plans for program-level test strategies and automation capabilities.

Lead complex end-to-end test cycles across interconnected Securities Finance applications and global teams, including defect triage, risk assessment and release-readiness reporting.

Design and manage technical proof-of-concepts and feasibility studies for new quality engineering capabilities.

Identify quality and delivery risks early, drive root-cause analysis, and ensure timely escalation and mitigation.

Optimize and maintain automation frameworks and regression suites; expand automated coverage for high-value and high-risk business workflows.

Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable early, repeatable feedback and support continuous delivery.

Lead data validation across databases, ETL/ELT pipelines and downstream reporting or processing flows.

Design and execute API, microservices, integration and performance testing at program level.

Define meaningful quality metrics and provide clear execution, defect, automation and release-readiness reporting to technical and business stakeholders.

Provide technical mentorship and quality engineering leadership across…