Infra Test Delivery Digital 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 worlds 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 worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service. Digital, EUC (End User Computing) - SQM Infra Test Delivery Lead (Offshore-FTE) NT India Reports To: SQM Offshore Manager Job Overview Digital, EUC, (End User Computing ) Infra Test Delivery Lead (Off Shore - FTE) has unique responsibilities to manage the quality of the Digital Services Infrastructure, Infra EOL( End of Life)/App growth & End User Computing projects and changes, such as patching, upgrades, integrations, certifications and emergency fix. Responsible for Infrastructure Test Strategy for Infra Changes and Projects related to EUCThe lead is responsible for general project management elements like planning, execution, monitoring, testing, and project closure to embed quality delivery for infrastructure Engineering & Operations projectsPrimary expectation is 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 Digital Services, & End User Computing changes Example (GPO), testing life cycle and change process optimization Roles & Responsibilities Provide technical leadership and expertise within the infrastructure field to deliver quality programs and projects in-house and offshore for below areas:Digital Services Messaging: Email System Upgrades, communication, collaboration tools, & Office Products ( More details in the table)Digital Services End User Computing: Desktop Operating System, Browser Upgrades/Patching (Chrome, Edge on Chromium), VDI, CitrixApplication Growth Lifecycle/End of Life: Application dependent Infrastructure & Firmware EOL (End Of Life).Responsible for defining Infra Test Delivery test strategy, approach test plan and execution for change requests, Post PROD.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 Including Major incidents 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. 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 performance testingTest 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) ,and Network LAN/WAN , Remote VPN Connectivity like Zscaler and Azure.Monitoring, Alerting, and Scheduling Tools and Services (Control-M,DYNATRACE,Splunk,Grafana.etc).Service Levels Agreements (SLAs),Service Levels .