Lead Quality Engineering Specialist

Job Description

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What is the opportunity?

As a Lead Quality Engineering Specialist, you will be responsible for overall QE processes, methodologies, and test strategy, improvements and be accountable for driving quality by leveraging automation and artificial intelligence to improve quality through early defect detection. You will be responsible for developing and executing automation test plans (might assume planning execution accountability) for a suite of applications projects, software releases or upgrades and maintenance activities. You will lead the technical test effort and coaching junior resources on test execution and automation.

What will you do?

• Accountable to work with application and project teams in the implementation of defined test strategies across application lifecycle, utilizing QE processes and tools
• Accountable for coverage and efficiency in test plans within area of control
• Accountable for maximizing automation end to end for all testing deliverables in the portfolio
• Responsible for following defined processes and tools and alignment with overall QE strategy and framework
• Partner with Application Development teams to integrate quality engineering mindset/concepts within the DevOps framework/pipeline
• Responsible to adopt and implement the Artificial Intelligence transformation agenda related to QE
• Responsible for coaching, mentoring, training and day to day interaction with a team of QE practitioners
• Determine the schedule and sequence of testing activities, negotiate and coordinate with squads and interfacing applications regardless timelines and commitments
• Strong communicator – able to work closely with counterparts in cross functional teams. Ability to lead and mentor QE team members

What do you need to succeed?

Must Have:

• Computer Science/Engineering degree or equivalent training
• Minimum 10 years of technical experience developing and implementing test strategies and plans and managing the end-to-end process or other technical roles in Agile and Non-Agile projects
• Hands on expertise in a variety of test automation frameworks/tools – Robot Framework, TestNG, Junit, SoapUI, Selenium, Rest Assure, Jenkins, Maven and script development using scripting languages (Python, Bash), web services and API testing – REST API and SOAP
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline and DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Helios
• Test automation vision and leadership skills for innovation
• Strong experience in the usage of GenAI tools like Copilot, prompt Engineering for designing and refining prompts outputs to support QE activities
• Artificial Intelligence Training and Experience

Nice to have:

• Application development experience
• Code inspection tool knowledge (SonarQube)
• Experience with Containerization tools like OpenShift, Docker, AWS ECS
• Experience using test optimization and performance monitoring tools – Dynatrace

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

Work Model: Onsite

Address: 180 WELLINGTON ST W, TORONTO, Canada

City: Toronto

Country: Canada

Work hours/week: 37.5

Employment Type: Full time

Platform: TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type: Regular

Pay Type: Salaried

Note: This description reflects the current job opening and does not guarantee job status or duties, and is subject to change.

At RBC, we are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that supports performance and growth for all employees.

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