Senior Engineer - Quality Engineering

Slalom; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Slalom is seeking an Architect - Quality Engineering to lead testing strategy across data engineering and migration projects. You will shape AI-assisted delivery and drive test automation, ensuring high quality and scalable digital products.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed quality early in lifecycle, develop automated frameworks, and produce meaningful quality metrics that guide delivery decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of testing in Agile environments (e.g., Scrum).
• Full software development lifecycle experience.
• Embed quality practices early and post-release.
• Strong ownership of quality across disciplines.
• Automation testing including API/service/contract testing.
• Non-functional testing: Performance/Load and Security.
• Data transformation and migration project experience.
• Data engineering tools: Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Databricks, DBT, Coalesce.
• Proficiency in SQL and data validation.
• AI-enabled delivery experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop testing strategies for data engineering and migration projects.
• Adopt AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate delivery and elevate quality.
• Implement and evolve automation frameworks; increase test automation coverage.
• Produce test status reports and quality metrics.
• Facilitate defect triage and guide defect resolution processes.
• Conduct test reviews and support requirements traceability and coverage mapping.
• Prioritise and execute testing activities aligned to the test pyramid.
• Collaborate with team in setting quality goals and acceptance criteria.
• Perform exploratory testing with the team and customer.
• Coach and champion quality practices within a cross-functional team.

Skills

Agile delivery

Test automation

Quality advocacy

Team collaboration

Shift Left/Shift Right awareness

Tools

Snowflake

AWS Redshift

Databricks

DBT

Coalesce

SQL

Job description

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co‑create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact.

What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days.

Architect - Quality Engineering

Slalom Build, Quality Engineering (QE) capability brings a modern, AI‑enabled approach to software quality, helping organizations accelerate delivery while maintaining confidence, reliability, and scalability. Our expertise spans modern testing strategies, scalable test automation, and quality engineering principles that enable whole‑team ownership of quality.

Comprised of passionate technologists and innovators, our QE capability continuously adapts to the evolving technology landscape. We partner with our clients in cross‑functional teams to build high‑quality, secure, and scalable digital products across a broad range of platforms and technologies.

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

• Develop appropriate testing strategies for small to medium‑sized data engineering and/or migration projects
• Adopt AI assisted engineering practices to accelerate delivery and elevate quality
• Implement and evolve automation frameworks; drive increased test automation coverage across 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
• Prioritise and execute testing activities aligned to the test pyramid
• Collaborate with team in setting quality goals and defining acceptance criteria
• Perform exploratory testing on product builds alongside the team and our customer
• Coach and champion quality practices within a cross‑functional team

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
• Solid experience in automation testing, including:
  • API/service/contract testing
• Experience in non‑functional testing, including:
  • Performance/Load
  • Security
• Experience on data transformation and migration projects
• Experience on data engineering tools: Snowflake, AWS Redshift, Databricks, Dbt, Coalesce
• Proficiency in SQL and working with data for validation
• Experience and interest on AI‑enabled delivery is a plus

Our Values

Our culture and values reflect each individual Slalomer. 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

When we moved to Australia in 2020, we had no idea just how important our work/life balance would need to be. We’ve asked our consultants what makes Slalom a great place to work and the most common answer – “the freedom to be ourselves when life gets in the way”. We make a big effort to bring everyone together and allow space when space is needed. We believe in helping each other thrive in work and life and are proud to invest in benefits that include holistic wellbeing, meaningful allowances, and investment in our team’s professional, technical, and personal growth.

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes all qualified applicants. Slalom does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.