Senior Performance Testing Engineer

RBC

Leads performance testing strategy for scalable applications within City National's Technology & Innovation group. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to develop testing frameworks and execute nonfunctional test plans.

Posted 6/20/2026full-timeToronto • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureJMeterKubernetes

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the overall strategy related to nonfunctional aspects of the system including scalability, capacity planning, resiliency and application reliability.
Drive the quality initiatives with focus on delivering high performance and scalable applications to our clients in a fast-paced environment.
Develop and execute 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.
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.
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 within the group.
Work with onshore and offshore team members to provide follow the sun coverage when possible.
Coach and mentor junior team members to nurture team productivity and professional development.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
Competitive compensation
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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Hard Skills & Tools

performance testingnonfunctional testingcapacity planningscalabilityapplication reliabilityperformance testing frameworkperformance characterizationperformance metricsprofilersservice virtualization

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcoachingmentoringteam playercommunicationadaptabilitygrowth mindset

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree