Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Performance Testing Engineer

Royal Bank of Canada$90K — $120K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
  • 5+ years in Quality Assurance
  • 5+ years in performance testing (LoadRunner, JMeter)
  • 3+ years in application performance monitoring (Dynatrace, AppDynamics)
  • 2+ years in Azure environments
  • Service virtualization experience (a plus)
  • 1+ years in containerization and CI/CD in Azure DevOps (Kubernetes/ECS)

Responsibilities

  • Design and build performance testing frameworks that simulate production workflows
  • Use performance testing tools and profilers to analyze system health
  • Collaborate with Business Owners and IT to execute nonfunctional test plans
  • Develop and maintain continuous performance testing capabilities
  • Measure and report system performance metrics under load conditions
  • Document and maintain performance test artifacts in a centralized location
  • Lead code reviews and advocate for industry best practices

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Support for professional development through coaching
  • Opportunity to make a significant impact
  • Dynamic and collaborative team environment
  • Access to a world-class financial services training program
Full Job Description
Job Description

WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?

Senior Performance Testing Engineer leads the overall strategy related to nonfunctional aspects of the system including scalability, capacity planning, resiliency and application reliability. This role is accountable for driving the quality initiatives with focus on delivering high performance and scalable applications to our clients in a fast-paced environment, developing and executing nonfunctional test plans for the ecosystem and collaborate with cross functional team of developers, architects and business to understand the system architecture and identify the pain-points when it comes scalability & performance

WHAT WILL YOU DO?
  • Design and build performance testing framework to mimic production use cases/workflows of internal, COTS, and external hosted applications, to establish performance and scalability benchmarks. Build Performance Characterization of applications/systems, Work with applications and other teams in solutioning performance issues identified in performance testing.
  • Instrument and use performance testing tools, profilers and monitors to analyze health statistics of the system components and integrations.
  • Collaborate with Business Owners and IT to build and execute nonfunctional test plans for the program/ projects.
  • Lead the design and development of continuous performance testing capabilities by integrating tests with release pipelines and offer performance test framework for developers and testers to execute performance tests in a self-service capacity.
  • Measure and report system performance metrics including throughput, response times, CPU , Memory, IO, Database and garbage collection footprint under load conditions.
  • Assist in documenting and maintaining the performance test artifacts and repositories in a centralized location.
  • Lead the code reviews of the script and scenarios before the test artifacts are deployed for execution and reporting on the projects and be an advocate for leveraging industry best practices with in the group
  • Work with onshore and offshore team members to be able to provide follow the sun coverage when possible.
  • Coach and mentor the junior team members to nurture team productivity and professional development.
  • All other appropriate duties as required.


WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?

Must-Have
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in performance testing with tools such as LoadRunner , JMeter, LRE etc.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience with application performance monitoring tools like Dynatrace, AppDynamics, ELK etc
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience in Azure environments
  • Service virtualization experience is a plus
  • 1+ years of experience in containerization with auto-scaling best practices for Kubernetes/ECS implementations as well as Devops best practices with Azure Devops for CICD deployments
  • Experience with profilers for heap and memory dump analysis for performance optimizations is a plus
  • Demonstrate a team player attitude with a growth mindset to be open to learn and adapt the changing landscape of the industry including using AI productivity tools approved by the organization.


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.


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Job Skills
Agile Methodology, Business Data Analysis, Communication, Critical Thinking, Digital Transformation, Financial Forecasting, Information Capture, Portfolio Management, Product Services, Strategic Thinking

Additional Job Details

Address:

180 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:

2026-05-16

Application Deadline:

2026-07-20
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

#LI-Post

#TECH PJ

Job Skills
Agile Methodology, Business Data Analysis, Communication, Critical Thinking, Digital Transformation, Financial Forecasting, Information Capture, Portfolio Management, Product Services, Strategic Thinking

Additional Job Details

Address:

180 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:

2026-05-16

Application Deadline:

2026-07-20
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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