Senior Lead SW Quality Engineer

Northern Trust

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Work type: On-site
Location: Chicago, IL
Salary: $95,600–$162,400 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 1 day ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management

Northern Trust currently has 82 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $114,500–$194,700 across 59 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Lead SW Quality Engineer

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The Sr Lead, SW Quality Eng provides technical leadership to drive quality across Salesforce solutions, custom-built applications, and web platforms. This role involves defining end-to-end quality engineering strategies, leading test planning, and establishing risk-based testing practices within Agile and CI/CD pipelines. The successful candidate will build scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, and data-validation testing while mentoring quality engineers. Key technical competencies include Salesforce (Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Apex, SOQL), automation tools like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, and REST Assured, and languages such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or C#. The role also requires applying AI-assisted engineering tools for test-case generation and defect analysis. This position solves complex quality risks in high-availability enterprise environments, ensuring secure, reliable, and high-performing software releases.

Skills

Salesforce Apex SOQL Java JavaScript TypeScript Python C# Selenium Playwright Cypress WebdriverIO Cucumber REST Assured Postman Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins Git Agile API Testing Service Virtualization test-data management Generative AI

What you'll do

Own and evolve the end-to-end quality engineering strategy for Salesforce, custom applications, APIs, and web platforms.
Design and implement scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, integration, regression, and data-validation testing.
Establish risk-based testing practices and quality gates within Agile and CI/CD pipelines.
Validate Salesforce configurations, including workflows, security profiles, Apex-based functionality, and platform releases.
Guide testing across functional, cross-browser, accessibility, usability, performance, security, and resiliency dimensions.
Partner with developers to improve testability, shift quality left, and strengthen code-level testing.
Apply service virtualization, test-data management, and observability practices to improve test reliability.
Evaluate and apply AI-assisted tools for test-case generation, automation development, and defect analysis.

What we're looking for

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Typically 10 or more years of software testing or quality engineering experience.
At least 3 years of experience in a technical lead or senior leadership capacity.
Strong hands-on experience testing Salesforce solutions, custom enterprise applications, web applications, APIs, and system integrations.
Demonstrated experience building or advancing test automation using modern programming languages and industry-standard frameworks.
Proficiency in one or more languages such as Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or C#.
Experience with functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, exploratory, performance, security, accessibility, and production-validation testing.
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