Associate Director QA Lead

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

The QA lead will manage technical design and development of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems. Applies extensive, in-depth knowledge, skills, and practices to perform complex assignments.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Lead the design, implementation, test, delivery, and maintenance for Global Trade Management Platform
• Lead and help drive project planning sessions with FO, BO, Ops, and other teams to analyze business requirements, prevailing issues, and carve out the progress path ahead
• Lead global QA team to design testing strategies through well-defined test interfaces across multiple components, conduct code reviews, and make decisions based on available resources, data, and infrastructure
• Develop testing services by ensuring test components are well-defined, modularized, reliable, actively monitored, and reusable
• Ensure quality and completeness of the product through code review, unit testing, comprehensive test documentation, and regression testing
• Provide technical expertise to maximize efficiency, reliability, and value from current infrastructure and emerging technologies, showing technical leadership and driving continuous improvement efforts

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Must have:

• 5+ year experience as a lead or similar role in capital market of managing a QA team to deliver high-quality work by deadlines

• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to determine the information and communication needs of the stakeholders and project.

• Hands-on back-end API test experience on Linux environment and SQL DB; Capable of using automation test tools and writing test scripts in Shell, Python, or Java

• Experience working in Front Office trading applications with exposure to trade STP from ECNs

• Working experience on tools control-m, GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, JIRA, and confluence

• Knowledge on fixed-income product and market risks

• Knowledge of real-time data processing and supporting technologies, inter-process communication, messaging, caching, and multi-threading

Nice-to-have: 

• Computer science and/or finance background

• Familiar with software release processes

• Prior experience on automation test framework like Robot

• Agile project 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

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

• Flexible work/life balance options

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities  

Job Skills

Agile Projects, Automated Testing, Business Analysis, Electronic Trading, Quality Assurance (QA), Requirements Gathering, Scrum (Agile), User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Additional Job Details

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTOTorontoCanada37.5Full timeCAPITAL MARKETSRegularSalaried2026-06-122026-06-19

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.

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