Slalom is a purpose-driven consulting company focused on strategy, technology and business transformation. Founded in ****, we had a simple goal - to build a company where people love their work and love their life. As we continue to grow in Australia, we have a responsibility and an opportunity to do good in the world. We're committed to building our business in ways that are sustainable and responsible, while creating innovative solutions to the world's biggest challenges. We have bold aspirations for the future, and together with our people, partners and customers, we take measurable actions for today.
Senior Architect - Quality Engineering
Slalom_build's Quality Engineering (QE) capability brings a contemporary, 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'll Do
As a QE Senior Architect, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality solutions,



leveraging your extensive domain expertise to elevate the team's performance. You'll be a guiding force, evaluating multiple approaches to problem-solving and acting as a catalyst for team velocity by mentoring and coaching others.
Your responsibilities will include:
Develop appropriate testing strategies for medium to large projects through strong collaboration with clients and team members
Adopt AI assisted engineering practices to accelerate delivery and elevate quality
Implement and evolve automation frameworks; drive increased test automation coverage across projects
Contribute to project governance by managing risk and mitigations, and test reporting
Conduct test reviews and support requirements traceability and test coverage mapping
Collaborate with team in setting quality goals and defining acceptance criteria
Prioritise and execute testing activities aligned to the test pyramid
Perform exploratory testing on product builds alongside the team and our customer
Facilitate defect triage and guide overall defect resolution processes
Coach and champion quality practices within a cross-functional team
What You'll Bring
8+ years of professional testing experience, including Agile delivery (e.g. Scrum) across the full software development lifecycle
Demonstrated experience of leading,



mentoring and developing teams of Quality Engineers
Strong client and stakeholder management experience, with the ability to build trusted relationships across business, product and engineering teams
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
Strong experience in
automation testing
, that can include:
UI test automation
API/service/contract testing
Mobile testing
Data validation
Experience in non-functional testing, including:
Performance/Load
Security
Experience in DevOps or continuous integration practices and tools
Experience and interest on AI-enabled delivery is a plus
Please note that this role requires Australian Citizenship and a Baseline security clearance, at minimum.
Our Values
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.
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📌 Senior Architect - Quality Engineering - Canberra
🏢 Slalom
📍 Canberra