About this role
About the Role Architect - Quality Engineering at Slalom Build leads the approach to software quality, blending modern testing strategies with AI-assisted practices to accelerate delivery while maintaining confidence, reliability, and scalability. You will partner with cross-functional teams to define testing strategies, implement automation frameworks, and champion quality across the lifecycle. What You'll 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 We're Looking For
- 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: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript or Java
- Solid experience in automation testing, including: UI test automation API/service/contract testing Data test automation
- 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 Nice to Have
- AI-enabled delivery experience is a plus Compensation & Benefits
- Benefits include holistic wellbeing, meaningful allowances, and investment in the team's professional, technical, and personal growth.