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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 Code    54433 Job Tile    Associate Consultant Job Function    P1, Associate Consultant Role/ Department:   The role involves working for Front Office Solutions Product Development team which supports the holistic digital and service solution for modern institutional portfolios, fit for purpose to enable data integration, team collaboration and portfolio analysis. A qualified candidate must have the ability to perform in a fast-paced and agile environment in supporting a proven desktop application and delivering a high touch digital application.  Innovating, collaborating, and putting the client at the forefront is of utmost importance in this role.  This individual should have a strong technical background and experience working on Software Development projects and testing  Oversee internal and client-side efforts to meet project timelines and overcome project hurdles.    The key responsibilities of the role include:   Defines and applies testing strategy to ensure full coverage of positive and negative test cases Collaborates with business users to understand and articulate the needs of the business in the software development process Makes consultative recommendations to business users and product owners based on knowledge and experience Interacts with software developers to ensure existing code coverage and new functional items are included in the testing framework Develops and implements a Test-Driven Development strategy which supports automated testing and continuous integration/continuous development Maintains a well-organized inventory of test cases which can be efficiently re-used Takes a significant role in signing off on new functionality, regression testing and operational readiness preparations Execute UAT test cases including:  Confirm that the feature performs as intended per business requirements  Confirm that the feature is consistent in behavior and look of existing features.  Extraction of data from vended applications to aid in validating of data used.  Certify that the feature is ready to move into production.  Provide comprehensive, in-depth consulting and assistance  to testing team  Maintain and enhance detailed test scripts based off business requirements outlining        specific use cases with expected results to support effective testing  Analyze testing results to identify bugs and clearly communicates detailed examples             with steps to recreate  Review automation scripts created by the team and provide feedback  Work with Release team to secure all needed test environments, data, resources required to execute planned testing; identify and highlight any areas where gaps may cause project delay or dependency impacts  Maintain all test-related documentations, project plans and provide scoping and estimated timelines  Manage defects, testing-related project risks, reporting, test status meetings/updates and communications with all stakeholders  Skills/ Qualifications:   Understanding of institutional investment industry.  Good to have the knowledge of performance measurement concepts and standards including GIPS, ILPA, etc.  Knowledge of alternative assets (private equity, hedge funds, real