Royal Bank of Canada

NFT Engineer

Royal Bank of Canada$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in Non-Functional Testing (NFT)
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Java
  • Expertise in resilience, load, chaos, and performance testing
  • Familiarity with performance and chaos testing tools like Gatling and Chaos Monkey
  • In-depth knowledge of resilience patterns such as circuit breakers and bulkheads
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk and Grafana
  • Background in testing distributed systems or microservices

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement comprehensive NFT strategies
  • Develop and maintain automated NFT frameworks
  • Execute chaos engineering experiments to test resilience
  • Define and optimize SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for reliability
  • Generate detailed test reports with root-cause analysis
  • Work with development teams to integrate NFT in SDLC
  • Create AI-powered agents for fault injection and resilience validation

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Supportive leaders focused on your development
  • Opportunity to make a lasting impact
  • Collaborative and high-performing team environment
  • World-class training program in financial services
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Challenging work opportunities
  • Potential for greater responsibilities
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

Senior engineer specializing in Non-Functional Testing (NFT) with focus on performance, resilience, and chaos engineering. Leverages AI/ML and automation to build intelligent testing agents that enable shift-left resilience validation and autonomous failure scenario generation within CI/CD pipelines

What will you do?
  • Design and execute comprehensive NFT strategies across performance and resilience domains
  • Build and maintain automated NFT frameworks with AI-powered capabilities
  • Conduct chaos engineering experiments including latency injection, bandwidth throttling, and failover/DR testing
  • Define, monitor, and optimize SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for system reliability
  • Produce detailed test reports with root-cause analysis and actionable insights
  • Collaborate with development teams to embed NFT practices early in the SDLC
  • Design and build AI-powered agents that automate fault injection and resilience validation directly in developer workflows
  • Develop intelligent systems that autonomously identify critical failure paths and recommend chaos experiments based on architecture changes
  • Leverage LLMs and generative AI to auto-generate chaos test scenarios from architecture diagrams, runbooks, and incident history
  • Implement real-time resilience scoring mechanisms before code reaches production


What do you need to succeed?

Must-have
  • Development Skills: Hands-on experience with Python and/or Java
  • Testing Expertise: Proven experience in resilience testing, load testing, chaos testing, performance testing, stress testing, soak testing, and spike testing
  • Tool Proficiency: Familiarity with performance testing tools (Gatling, JMeter, Locust, k6) and chaos testing tools (Chaos Monkey, Litmus, Gremlin)
  • Resilience Patterns: Deep understanding of circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries, timeouts, and graceful degradation
  • Monitoring & Observability: Experience with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, and AppDynamics
  • System Architecture: Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, or event-driven architectures
  • CI/CD Integration: Experience integrating NFT into CI/CD pipelines
  • Capacity Planning: Knowledge of capacity planning and infrastructure sizing concepts


Nice-Have
  • Cloud & Containerization: Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible
  • Financial Services: Experience in financial services industry
  • AI/ML Experience: Experience building AI agents or agentic workflows (Claude, GPT, Gemini) for test automation
  • LLM Applications: Familiarity with LLMs for log summarization, incident pattern recognition, and automated remediation suggestions
  • Advanced Chaos Testing: Experience with latency injection and bandwidth throttling techniques


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, 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
  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
  • Opportunities to build close relationships with clients


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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:

RBC CENTRE, 155 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-06-15

Application Deadline:

2026-07-06
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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