Royal Bank of Canada

Associate Director QA Lead

Royal Bank of Canada$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in a lead QA role in capital markets
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Hands-on experience with back-end API testing on Linux and SQL
  • Familiarity with Front Office trading applications
  • Proficient with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, and JIRA
  • Knowledge of fixed-income products and market risks
  • Experience with real-time data processing technologies

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and implementation of the Global Trade Management Platform
  • Drive project planning sessions across multiple teams
  • Design testing strategies for a global QA team
  • Ensure components are well-defined and modularized for testing
  • Conduct code reviews and regression testing
  • Maximize efficiency and reliability through technical expertise
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program with bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Supportive leadership for development opportunities
  • Make a lasting impact through your work
  • Dynamic and collaborative team environment
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Challenging work with progressive accountabilities
Full Job Description
Job Description

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?

  • 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

Address:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

CAPITAL MARKETS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-06-12

Application Deadline:

2026-06-19
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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