Senior Engineer - Quality Engineering

Slalom_build forms part of a global consulting company, Slalom. Our tech powerhouse is focused on Engineering, Delivery, and Experience Design in its truest form. Whether that be designing and building a product or platform from scratch or modernising an existing stack – the team focus on quality and scalability.

Slalom_build is a welcoming and inclusive space for people to build their fullest potential. We make cool stuff, with the latest technology, and modern skill-expanding techniques. We encourage inclusion and actively incite a wider divergence of thought, opinion, and background. Slalom_build is a loyal partner for our clients—and the greatest advocate for the future of our people.

Senior Engineer- Quality Engineering

Slalom_build’s Quality Engineering (QE) capability brings a modern approach to software quality, playing a critical role in high-velocity software engineering teams. We work with current and emerging tools and techniques to help build reliable, scalable software. Our expertise in software quality principles and techniques enables key principles of whole-team ownership of quality, close proximity of software development and test activities, and reliable, scalable test automation.

Our capability is comprised of passionate, flexible technologists who love to practice and hone their craft. As tools evolve and technologies emerge, we work to stay in front of innovation in automated software development and delivery. We work in cross-functional teams to build full-stack solutions across a range of established and emerging technologies and techniques.

Our QE core principles are:

• We believe in a whole team ownership of quality
• We believe Quality Engineers empower teams by bringing a focus on quality
• We believe in the benefit of close proximity between development and test activities
• We believe automation is critical for high-quality, high-velocity delivery
  
  

What You Will Do

• Perform exploratory testing on product builds alongside the team and our customers
• Implement and evolve automation frameworks; drive increased test automation coverage across projects
• Develop appropriate testing strategies for small to medium-sized projects
• Produce test status reports and quality metrics
• Facilitate defect triage and guide overall defect resolution processes
• Conduct test reviews and support requirements traceability and test coverage mapping
• Help the team prioritise and execute testing activities aligned to the test pyramid
• Assist teams in setting quality goals and defining acceptance criteria
• Contribute to data migration testing, planning and execution when applicable
  
  

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years of professional testing experience, including Agile delivery (e.g., Scrum)
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle
• Proven ability to embed quality practices early in the lifecycle (Shift Left) and maintain quality post-release (Shift Right)
• Strong advocacy for shared quality ownership across disciplines
• 2+ years of hands-on coding experience in one or more of the following: C#, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Kotlin, or Swift
• Solid experience in automation testing, including:
• UI test automation
• API/service/contract testing
• Data test automation
• Proficiency in SQL and working with data for validation
• Bonus: Monitoring or maintaining system quality in production environments
  
  

Bonus Experience (Nice To Have)

• Data migration testing
• Unit and integration testing
• Performance and load testing
• DevOps/build engineering knowledge
• Application security testing
• Custom test tool development
• Mobile app test automation
• Project management or Scrum Mastery
• Business analysis and consulting background
  
  

This is a great opportunity to work in a highly collaborative, tech-driven environment where quality is everyone's responsibility — and automation is at the core of how we build software.

Our Values

Our culture and values reflect each individual _Builder. We are dedicated to encouraging workplace diversity and ensuring all our people, from any background can contribute to their full potential. We wish to build a team that echoes the diversity of the communities we serve, and our values are an active part of our every-day, guiding our decisions.

What keeps us here?

There’s work life and life life. And we think it’s time they got together for good. Calibrated to your needs and to your life, we want every builder to be happy, healthy, supported, and inspired. Every day. For this reason, we offer health and well-being, learning and growth, and tech perks (to name a few). We also provide a welcoming place to connect and share experiences and perspectives through our Employee Resource Groups. So that every builder feels safe to be themselves everywhere.

Slalom prides itself on helping our team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in our team members with competitive and innovative benefit programs and services that meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce.