Senior Quality Engineer: AI‑Driven Testing & Automation

Slalom; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Slalom is seeking an Architect for Quality Engineering to lead testing strategies across data engineering and migration projects. You will drive AI-assisted delivery, implement scalable automation, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, secure digital products.

With 5+ years of testing experience, you will embed quality practices early in the lifecycle, advocate shared ownership, and contribute to validating data integrity through SQL and data tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional testing experience.
• 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 and Security.
• Experience on data transformation and migration projects.
• Proficiency in SQL and working with data for validation.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Automation testing

SQL

Data transformation

Agile delivery

Tools

Snowflake

AWS Redshift

Databricks

Dbt

Coalesce

Job description

Slalom is seeking an Architect for Quality Engineering to lead testing strategies across data engineering and migration projects. You will drive AI-assisted delivery, implement scalable automation, and partner with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, secure digital products.

With 5+ years of testing experience, you will embed quality practices early in the lifecycle, advocate shared ownership, and contribute to validating data integrity through SQL and data tooling.