Senior Software Developer in Test (Development Focused)

We are seeking a top-notch, hands on Senior Software Developer who is a passionate, driven team player committed to code quality and testing excellence. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our banking applications by designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks. In this role, you will serve as a subject matter expert, driving standards, compliance, and strategic automation for development tools and frameworks to enhance architecture and deliver measurable value. You'll blend technical proficiency with domain knowledge and innovative thinking to drive efficiency and accuracy in banking testing processes. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with business analysts and product owners to translate banking requirements into effective test strategies, staying updated with emerging AI technologies and testing tools to continuously enhance processes, and working closely with development teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines. You'll partner with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues early in the development lifecycle, drive innovation through new methodologies and tools that improve efficiency and reduce manual effort, and leverage strong communication and collaboration abilities to work effectively across the organization.

What will you do?

• Ensure the quality and reliability of our banking applications by designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks.
• Apply deep knowledge of banking operations, compliance requirements, and business workflows to design comprehensive and risk-aware test strategies.
• Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable test automation solutions leveraging AI-driven tools and emerging technologies to enhance testing efficiency.
• Develop automated test scripts for functional, regression testing scenarios specific to banking applications.
• Define automation scope, oversee end-to-end delivery, and manage the automation framework infrastructure and code repositories.
• Harness AI and machine learning capabilities to enhance test case generation, streamline execution, reduce manual effort, and implement intelligent test data generation with anomaly detection capabilities.
• Champion end-to-end quality of banking applications by identifying risks, creating test plans, and executing test cases.
• Perform test data requirement, analysis, test data creation and conditioning.
• Monitor and report on test coverage, defect metrics, and overall application quality.
• In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field with 4+ years of experience as an SDET.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, Vue, Angular, node and Oracle and SQL queries for test data mining, data generation & conditioning.
• Extensive experience with test automation tools like Selenium and Playwright and BDD/TDD, Cucumber framework development.
• Experience testing banking applications with a strong understanding of banking workflows, financial products, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins.
• Hands on experience in API testing tools like Postman or SOAPUI; Experience of API development and integration of models through APIs.
• Understanding of deep learning fundamentals, RAG and LLMs.

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
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

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Job Skills

Active Learning, Agile Methodology, Application Integrations, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, Group Problem Solving, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Additional Job Details

1 PLACE VILLE MARIE:MONTRÉALMontréalCanada37.5Full timeTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSRegularSalaried2026-10-012026-10-23

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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