NFT Engineer

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?

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Design and execute comprehensive NFT strategies across performance and resilience domains

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Build and maintain automated NFT frameworks with AI-powered capabilities

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Conduct chaos engineering experiments including latency injection, bandwidth throttling, and failover/DR testing

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Define, monitor, and optimize SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for system reliability

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Produce detailed test reports with root-cause analysis and actionable insights

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Collaborate with development teams to embed NFT practices early in the SDLC

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Design and build AI-powered agents that automate fault injection and resilience validation directly in developer workflows

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Develop intelligent systems that autonomously identify critical failure paths and recommend chaos experiments based on architecture changes

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Leverage LLMs and generative AI to auto-generate chaos test scenarios from architecture diagrams, runbooks, and incident history

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Implement real-time resilience scoring mechanisms before code reaches production

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

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Development Skills : Hands-on experience with Python and/or Java

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Testing Expertise : Proven experience in resilience testing, load testing, chaos testing, performance testing, stress testing, soak testing, and spike testing

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Tool Proficiency : Familiarity with performance testing tools (Gatling, JMeter, Locust, k6) and chaos testing tools (Chaos Monkey, Litmus, Gremlin)

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Resilience Patterns : Deep understanding of circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries, timeouts, and graceful degradation

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Monitoring & Observability : Experience with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, and AppDynamics

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System Architecture : Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, or event-driven architectures

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CI/CD Integration : Experience integrating NFT into CI/CD pipelines

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Capacity Planning : Knowledge of capacity planning and infrastructure sizing concepts

Nice-Have

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Cloud & Containerization : Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

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Infrastructure as Code : Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible

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Financial Services : Experience in financial services industry

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AI/ML Experience : Experience building AI agents or agentic workflows (Claude, GPT, Gemini) for test automation

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LLM Applications : Familiarity with LLMs for log summarization, incident pattern recognition, and automated remediation suggestions

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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.

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A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, and stock where applicable

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Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

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Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

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Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

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A world-class training program in financial services

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Flexible work/life balance options

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Opportunities to do challenging work

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Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

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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

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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