SubLedger QE Strategy Lead

Job Description

What is the opportunity?Are you a talented, creative and results-driven professional who thrives on delivering high-performing applications? Come join us!

Global Functions Technology (GFT) is part of RBC’s Technology and Operations division. GFT’s impact is far-reaching as we collaborate with partners from across the company to deliver innovative and transformative IT solutions. Our clients represent Risk, Finance, HR, CAO, Audit, Legal, Compliance, Financial Crime, Capital Markets, Personal and Commercial Banking and Wealth Management. We also lead the development of digital tools and platforms to enhance collaboration.
The opportunity available is working as a the QE Strategy Lead in the Finance IT Sub Ledger team, supporting Capital Markets and Insurance.

SLIM and RISE are the strategic Sub Ledgers for Capital Markets and Insurance, respectively, built on an on-premise vendor solution, Aptitude Accounting Hub. SLIM and RISE source data from Front Office Systems via the Enterprise Data Lake and reference data from golden source applications, then apply business rules to generate accounting and execute various subledger functions, including balance sheet netting and remittance, to support our business users with their daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial reporting, business reviews, reconciliations, and other financial analysis.

The QE Strategy Lead will be responsible for rolling out ‘best practice’ methods for processes and testing, developing metrics to track efficiency and testing improvements, building out the capabilities of the QE team, creating and implementing strategic changes relating to processes, quality, and technologies, and expanding the use and application of AI. The selected candidate will work closely with the SLIM and RISE delivery managers and QE teams, along with the FIAT QE Strategy team to create and implement a robust quality engineering framework for the Subledger QE space.

This position involves interaction at all levels within the organization, from technical personnel to high level management, meaning exceptional communication skills are a must for this role. Given the business lines and stakeholders that we support, this role requires a candidate who is comfortable working in fast paced, high pressure environments.
What will you do?

Develop and roll out project management ‘best practices’ based on prior experience, focusing on test strategy, planning and structured testing disciplines (e.g. quality gating).

Create framework for QE teams to produce comprehensive test strategies for complex, integrated systems, including defining regression, smoke, and UAT plans

Champion the adoption of shift left / shift up behaviours across FIAT and with our IT and business / functional partners and use those behaviours to improve and structure the end-to-end strategy

Establish a training & culture change to shift testing activities left / up for any large programs/changes, and include Quality Engineering activities earlier in the scoping, definition, and development of software changes

Develop metrics for efficiencies & improvements for testing

Improve the coordination and use of Dev Ops resources and outputs

Collaborate with FIAT QE Enablement team to develop standard practices and automation frameworks for data ingestion & test environments setup, focused on ensuring integrity of static data for testing, and ensure Enterprise and COE standard practices are applied within SLIM & RISE teams

Work with our CFO & IT partners to establish pragmatic approaches to increase agility of front to back programs

Work with upstream Data Provider Teams to troubleshoot, provide requirements, and coordinate end-to-end testing implementation

Contribute to successful project completion within budget and on time by identifying risks and developing/recommending mitigation strategies

Ensure that strong testing disciplines are applied to all work, in order to enable RBC’s competitiveness

Ensure that test planning produced is thorough, efficient, and clear and effectively communicated to business partners and stored for future use

Provide senior management with timely and transparent…