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Overview: JOB TITLE: Senior Software Development Engineer in Test Chicago, IL Who We Are: Northern Trust is a Chicago-based bank with more than 20 international locations and 16,500 employees. From sovereign wealth funds to the wealthiest individuals and families, the world's most sophisticated clients rely on Northern Trust every day. The Northern Trust Corporate & Institutional Services (C&IS) Organization supports a range of end-to-end middle and back office processes that service asset managers and asset owners across the Trade Settlement, Fund Administration, Custody Accounting & Administration and Prime Services. Our leading technology solutions enable businesses to drive growth, improve client and employee experiences, and protect confidential data. The C&IS Technology Department is looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic, nimble, and pragmatic individual with a digital mindset to join our team as a Software Development Engineer in Test. What You Will Do: As an engineer within our team, you will be responsible for collaborating with a geographically dispersed, agile team to develop and maintain automation tests within the defined automation framework. We are looking for an individual that has experience developing, optimizing, and refactoring automated tests and utilities with a passion for growing skills as well as solving complex and challenging problems. In this role you will interact with product management, development teams and testers to develop a strong understanding of the project and product testing objectives and ensure test automation design is traceable to requirements, user stories, or existing manual test cases and achieves a high level of requirement/test execution coverage. Key Knowledge and Skills:

• BS in Computer Science or related field of study or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional experience pairing with developers to design, build, and improve test automation
• Hands-on DevOps experience developing and delivering products in a collaborative, agile team environment
• Experience coding in Java 8 with multi-threading, thread safe collections
• Experience using Selenium to automate UI tests
• Experience with TestNG, writing assertions
• Experience with API Testing, Restful Webservices testing using Java
• CI/CD experience using Bamboo or any other CI/CD tool
• Proven ability to write automated test scripts to verify data structures, data formats and data values using: Java, JUnit, TestNG (writing assertions), Selenium, Cucumber, Maven, Gradle, Apache Restful Services, Apache POI, Spring
• Mentor and Grow other software engineers in test automation programming
• Strong collaboration, communication, and coaching skills

• Experience with database development concepts (MarkLogic or Oracle)
• Experience in working as part of a Test/Behavior Driven Development TDD /BDD and/or Agile XP project teams
• Experience with load and/or performance testing tools
• Knowledge of Java, Java web applications, and modern Spring Frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Services, Spring Security, etc.)
• Experience working on messaging based applications/services and service contracts
• Knowledge of testing cloud-based and microservice-based applications