NFT Engineer

RBC•Toronto, ON

5d•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

Hands-on experience with Python and/or Java
Proven experience in resilience testing, load testing, chaos testing, performance testing, stress testing, soak testing, and spike testing
Familiarity with performance testing tools (Gatling, JMeter, Locust, k6) and chaos testing tools (Chaos Monkey, Litmus, Gremlin)
Deep understanding of circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries, timeouts, and graceful degradation
Experience with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, and AppDynamics
Experience testing distributed systems, microservices, or event-driven architectures
Experience integrating NFT into CI/CD pipelines
Knowledge of capacity planning and infrastructure sizing concepts

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Proficiency with Terraform and Ansible
Experience in financial services industry
Experience building AI agents or agentic workflows (Claude, GPT, Gemini) for test automation
Familiarity with LLMs for log summarization, incident pattern recognition, and automated remediation suggestions
Experience with latency injection and bandwidth throttling techniques

Responsibilities

Design and execute comprehensive NFT strategies across performance and resilience domains
Build and maintain automated NFT frameworks with AI-powered capabilities
Conduct chaos engineering experiments including latency injection, bandwidth throttling, and failover/DR testing
Define, monitor, and optimize SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs for system reliability
Produce detailed test reports with root-cause analysis and actionable insights
Collaborate with development teams to embed NFT practices early in the SDLC
Design and build AI-powered agents that automate fault injection and resilience validation directly in developer workflows
Develop intelligent systems that autonomously identify critical failure paths and recommend chaos experiments based on architecture changes
Leverage LLMs and generative AI to auto-generate chaos test scenarios from architecture diagrams, runbooks, and incident history
Implement real-time resilience scoring mechanisms before code reaches production

Benefits

bonuses
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
Flexible work/life balance options
Opportunities to do challenging work
Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
Opportunities to build close relationships with clients