Senior Software Quality Engineer

What is the opportunity?

The Branch Technology team is searching for a Senior Software Quality Engineer to join our team. As a Sr. Quality Engineer, you will partner with our other agile squads, business partners, and Site Reliability Engineering team in British Columbia/Calgary/Toronto to design, develop, and deploy capabilities for branch applications which all advisors use nationally. You will be accountable for driving quality and champion defect prevention/early defect detection by utilizing automation. You will be responsible for developing and executing test plans for ecosystem/program/large projects. This is a great opportunity for anyone who is looking to advance your agile skills, work cross functionally across organizations to deliver value for client facing employees, and modernize legacy infrastructure.

What will you do?

• Responsible for managing project test activities and aligning to RBC Quality Engineering practices while partnering across IT and with assigned business lines to plan functional and nonfunctional testing activities and responsible for managing project resources and vendor coordination.

• Testing legacy systems. 

• Leverages the existing automation frameworks, tools and artefacts to ensure testing process is continuous, comprehensive and fully autonomous. Implementation and maintenance of DevOps pipeline.

• Responsible for test case creation and execution, maximizing automation (Simple/Medium/High complexity). Utilization of service virtualization tools to enable early and continuous testing.

• Effectively communicates and builds rapport with team members, stakeholders and business partners using a variety of techniques and collaboration from initiation to close

• Provides coaching to team members on QE, Agile, DevOps and applicable RBC processes, practices and tools.

• Responsible for developing project/program test plans and strategies with a focus on optimized coverage for assigned programs/projects through the application lifecycle and managing end to end quality project activities with focus on test automation at all levels of testing.

• Supports and executes Performance Management processes by providing feedback on resources and ensuring development plans & performance reviews are in place and supports senior management in the development of workforce skill sets in order to meet transformation needs and achieve strategic goals.

• In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in a QE/test environment with a focus on technical, automated testing in a variety of environments (cloud, distributed and mainframe, business workflows and services/APIs, databases). Experience with defining Test strategy and test approach for Agile and Non-agile projects.

• Experience in DevOps operations including CI/CD principles, understanding of Automated build/deploy process through Jenkins.

• Testing experience with legacy systems such as NET UIs, mainframe hosted apps with scheduled jobs

• Experience with accessibility testing.

• Hands on expertise in a variety of automation frameworks/tools (e.g., Selenium, LeanFT, Robot Framework, TestNG, SOAPUI), and script development using scripting languages (e.g., C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Bash, etc.) and source code configuration tools (GIT, SVN, MKS)

Nice to have

• Device testing Experience

• Experience reviewing artefacts including code reviews (application and test automation scripts)

• Experience with non-functional testing (performance, UI/UX etc.)

• Interest and ability to learn other coding language's testing

• Database technologies (e.g. MongoDB, DB2, SQL, IMS) and strong SQL and Stored procedure experience.

What’s in it for you? 

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual. 

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable 

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities 

• Flexible work/life balance options 

• Opportunities to do challenging work 

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities   

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Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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