Senior Quality Engineer

Toronto, ON
On-site
Posted Oct 29, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Full-time
Experience level: Senior · 5+ years
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 38 hours per week

Job summary

The Senior Quality Engineer will plan and execute comprehensive testing strategies for enterprise applications, including functional, integration, and automated API testing. They will also lead risk-based testing for security remediation and infrastructure upgrades while mentoring team members to strengthen quality practices.

Job details

Job Description What is the opportunity? This position provides hands-on Quality Engineering (QE) support for City National Bank’s Wealth applications across business-as-usual (BAU) operations, technology risk remediation, and modernization initiatives. The role covers enterprise applications, backend services, and batch processes, including testing for TSS remediation, vulnerability fixes, Windows end-of-life upgrades, NTLMv1 retirement, and Helios adoption. What will you do? Application Quality Engineering & Core Service Support Plan, design, and execute functional, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing for enhancements, fixes, and feature releases across legacy .NET, web, API, and backend processes and applications. Translate requirements into reusable test cases; investigate issues using SQL, logs, and configurations. Develop and maintain automated API, data validation, and regression tests. Coordinate testing across concurrent changes, manage defects, and communicate progress and release risks. Risk Remediation & Technology Modernization Execute risk-based testing for security remediation, vulnerability fixes, infrastructure upgrades, and migrations. Validate functionality, connectivity, authentication, and processing following infrastructure or security changes; partner with development, security, and DevOps teams. • Establish data validation and reconciliation criteria; support conversion rehearsals, UAT, cutover readiness, and post-conversion validation. Cross-Functional Responsibilities Establish quality gates, entry/exit criteria, and reporting for coverage, defects, and risks. Mentor QE team members and maintain documentation to strengthen testing practices and application knowledge. What do you need to succeed? Must have: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field; or equivalent professional experience. 5+ years of hands-on QA/QE experience supporting enterprise applications; Strong functional, integration, API, database, and end-to-end testing skills. Proficiency in SQL for data validation and issue investigation; experience developing or maintaining automated tests. Demonstrated ability to own testing from requirements through execution, defect resolution, and release readiness reporting. Strong analytical, communication, and coordination skills managing competing priorities across distributed teams. Nice to have: Experience in financial services, banking, or wealth management; Experience with platform conversions, data migrations, .NET technologies (C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET) Familiarity with ETL testing. Experience validating infrastructure upgrades, security remediation, or enterprise authentication changes. Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based delivery, and post-deployment validation. Understanding of performance, resilience, recovery testing, and audit evidence requirements. 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. Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team. Opportunities to do challenging work. Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities. #TECH-PJ #LI-POST Job Skills Application Testing, Decision Making, Detail-Oriented, Group Problem Solving, IT Quality Assurance, Long Term Planning, Predictive Analytics, Programming Languages, Software Product Testing, Test Automation Additional Job Details Address: 180 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO City: Toronto Country: Canada Work hours/week: 37.5 Employment Type: Full time Platform: Job Type: Regular Pay Type: Salaried Posted Date: 2026-10-28 Application Deadline: 2026-11-30 Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above Our Employment Opportunities At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all. Join our Talent Community Stay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you. Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com. RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. 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What you’ll do

Requirements

Candidates must have a bachelor's degree in a relevant field and at least 5 years of hands-on QA/QE experience with enterprise applications. Proficiency in SQL, automated testing, and strong analytical skills are required to manage testing lifecycles and release readiness.