Senior Quality Engineer, Gft

Job Summary

What is the opportunity?

Global Functions Technology (GFT) is part of RBC's Technology and Operations division. GFT's impact is far-reaching as we collaborate with partners from across the company to deliver innovative and transformative IT solutions.

Our clients represent Risk, Finance, HR, CAO, Audit, Legal, Compliance, Financial Crime, Capital Markets, Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wealth Management.

We also lead the development of digital tools and platforms to enhance collaboration.

We believe that innovation should drive all that we do, in challenging assumptions and being big and bold with our ideas.

We support our people in developing the technical, business, and professional skills needed to be successful. You will work with partners from across the company, participate in networking events, and have access to a wide variety of supports including mentorship.

You will work directly with leaders who believe in celebrating successes and sharing learnings with other teams to promote progress.

You will be part of our fast paced Finance IT team and will be responsible for Test Implementation and Test Automation oversight on our Big Data Platform using latest technologies like Cloud, Kafka, and Containerization.

The project comprises of teams of QE professionals providing Test Services for the applications and programs within Finance IT.

Your role will focus on leading the team providing and improving on QE Automation for these groups while implementing test execution.

This position provides you opportunity to demonstrate and build technical processes and architecture as well and leadership skills while providing IT solutions to highly volatile business environment.

Job Description

What will you do?

• Support overall quality engineering strategy, accountable for developing and executing functional testing as well as build automation implementations for the ecosystem / program
• Establish and drive strategic and tactical QE initiatives, drive the implementation of the QE Automation Program and overall QE Automation process and standards
• Manage and build a high performing diverse team that leverages individual capabilities & strengths, Ensures adequate training and tools to deliver objectives
• Accountable for maximizing automation for all project functional testing deliverables in portfolio
• Responsible for following and developing defined processes and tools and alignment with overall QE strategy and framework
• Responsible for providing accurate and detailed quality status to project team and stakeholders
• Single point of accountability for the success of programs assigned with respect to testing automation. Accountable for teams managing the Test Implementations, Test Environments and Test Data Management.
• Partner with Application Development Directors to integrate quality engineering mindset / concepts within the DevOps framework / pipeline

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have :

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 5+ years of related experience and 5+ years of people management experience
• Experience in a variety of test automation tools (Robot Framework, Selenium)
• Script development using scripting languages. Primarily in Unix, Python (Pandas, Pycharm), and SQL
• Hands-on experience with Big Data related testing (HDFS, Hive, CDP), including Data Ingestion, Lineage, Quality, Transformation and Consumptions using automated tools.
• Strong Communication skills together with Test Automation vision and leadership skills for innovation.

Nice-to-have :

• Experience reviewing artefacts including code reviews (application and test automation scripts)
• Experience using SDLC, QE and DevOps tools (JIRA, GitHub, Jenkins, UurbanCodeDeploy, HP ALM etc.
• Hands-on knowledge and experience on Data masking technologies.
• QA implementations using Agile methodology

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
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services
• Flexible work / life balance options
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

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Job Skills

Application Testing, Application Testing, Automated Testing, Big Data, Decision Making, Defects Management, Defect Triage, Detail-Oriented, Group Problem Solving, Hive Query Language, Hive SQL, IT Quality Assurance, Long Term Planning, MySQL, Predictive Analytics, Programming Languages, Python (Programming Language), qTest, Quality Assurance (QA), Software Product Testing, Structured Query Language (SQL), Test Automation Tools, Test Case Design, Test Case Management, Test Planning + 1 more