Senior Quality Engineer, GFT - Halifax

Are you a talented, creative and results-driven professional who thrives on delivering high-performing applications? Come join us!

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

What will you do?

• Providing QE estimates and delivering on the book of work within the estimated timelines
• Determine testing scope & approach based on user stories & requirements.
• Support and execute product testing aligned to RBC QE standards & process.
• Document test results and log defects, Communicate defects and status reports for stakeholders
• Manage test cases, defects, and reporting in JIRA, Confluence, & qTest.
• Participate in Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, etc.).
• Develop, improve, and maintain automated test scripts using RBC’s Test Automation Framework.
• Identify and report concerns around functionality, performance, and other inconsistencies that may not be explicitly mentioned in a test script

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:

• 2+ years of experience in Quality Engineering with a focus on automated testing in a variety of environments (cloud, distributed and mainframe, business workflows and services/APIs, databases)
• Experience with test automation frameworks & tools (e.g Robot Framework, SoapUI or ReadyAPI, Postman, Selenium, UFT/Lean UFT/RestAssured/, TestNG)
• Experience with development/scripting languages (e.g Pandas, Numpy), and 3+ years with Python
• Experience with database technologies & testing (e.g. MongoDB, DB2, Oracle, SQL, IMS, Teradata), with strong SQL skills, Experienced in the Agile Methodology, JIRA & Confluence.
• Demonstrated ability in written & verbal communication skills, as well as presentation skills

Nice-to-have

• QA related certification (e.g. CSTE, CSQA, ISTQB)
• Computer Engineering, Computer Science degree/diploma, or equivalent experience
• Mobile Automation (Appium and Perfecto)
• Experience in Micro Service testing, performance testing, accessibility testing
• Experience in test case optimization (e.g ConformIQ, Hexawise, MAGiX)