Senior Quality Engineer

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

This position provides hands-on Quality Engineering (QE) support for City National Bank’s Wealth applications across business-as-usual (BAU) operations, technology risk remediation, and modernization initiatives. The role covers enterprise applications, backend services, and batch processes, including testing for TSS remediation, vulnerability fixes, Windows end-of-life upgrades, NTLMv1 retirement, and Helios adoption.

What will you do?

Application Quality Engineering & Core Service Support

• Plan, design, and execute functional, integration, end-to-end, and regression testing for enhancements, fixes, and feature releases across legacy .NET, web, API, and backend processes and applications.
• Translate requirements into reusable test cases; investigate issues using SQL, logs, and configurations.
• Develop and maintain automated API, data validation, and regression tests.
• Coordinate testing across concurrent changes, manage defects, and communicate progress and release risks.

Risk Remediation & Technology Modernization

• Execute risk-based testing for security remediation, vulnerability fixes, infrastructure upgrades, and migrations.
• Validate functionality, connectivity, authentication, and processing following infrastructure or security changes; partner with development, security, and DevOps teams. • Establish data validation and reconciliation criteria; support conversion rehearsals, UAT, cutover readiness, and post-conversion validation.

Cross-Functional Responsibilities

• Establish quality gates, entry/exit criteria, and reporting for coverage, defects, and risks.
• Mentor QE team members and maintain documentation to strengthen testing practices and application knowledge.

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field; or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on QA/QE experience supporting enterprise applications;
• Strong functional, integration, API, database, and end-to-end testing skills.
• Proficiency in SQL for data validation and issue investigation; experience developing or maintaining automated tests.
• Demonstrated ability to own testing from requirements through execution, defect resolution, and release readiness reporting.
• Strong analytical, communication, and coordination skills managing competing priorities across distributed teams.

Nice to have:

• Experience in financial services, banking, or wealth management; Experience with platform conversions, data migrations, .NET technologies (C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET)
• Familiarity with ETL testing.
• Experience validating infrastructure upgrades, security remediation, or enterprise authentication changes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based delivery, and post-deployment validation.
• Understanding of performance, resilience, recovery testing, and audit evidence requirements.

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.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Opportunities to do challenging work.
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities.

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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:

180 WELLINGTON ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-10-28

Application Deadline:

2026-11-30

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

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