Build - Sr Consultant/Principal (Quality Engineering) Who You’ll Work With Slalom Build capability is Slalom’s technology powerhouse, dedicated to engineering, cutting-edge technologies, and modern development practices.
We embrace diversity of thought and background, fostering a culture that values creativity and collaboration. As a trusted partner, Slalom Build helps clients maximize the value of their software by delivering fast, high-quality, and consistent solutions. We combine strategic thinking with AI-driven tools to support end-to-end delivery at any scale.
Our focus is not only on building great solutions, but also on empowering people and creating lasting impact.
What You’ll Do
- Assess the current state of testing across the application, including unit, integration, end-to-end, and manual testing Evaluate coverage, tooling, test infrastructure, test data management, and QA team skills and capacity.
- Identify critical business workflows with zero or insufficient test coverage that represent the highest risk, and document findings in a testing maturity assessment with gap analysis.
- Evaluate the current UAT process by engaging business users, documenting workflows, identifying pain points such as cycle time and defect leakage, and assessing business user availability for future UAT cycles.
- Design comprehensive testing standards for the existing codebase and future modern application, including unit and integration testing conventions, framework recommendations, code coverage tooling, and quality metrics and KPIs.
- Design a UAT framework encompassing process workflows, tooling recommendations, test case templates, and a business user training and onboarding approach.
- Partner with the AI-SDLC Specialist to evaluate AI-assisted test generation, assessing quality, coverage, maintainability, and effort savings, and incorporate findings into the testing strategy where appropriate.
- Define an overall Quality Engineering framework integrating shift-left practices, test automation strategy, continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines (in collaboration with the DevOps Engineer), and performance and accessibility testing considerations.
- Recommend the QE team structure, skills, and upskilling paths needed for the execution phase, and contribute findings to executive readouts and technical deep-dive sessions with client teams.
What You’ll Bring
Must Have
- 8+ years of experience in quality engineering, test architecture, or QA leadership roles
- Deep expertise in test strategy design across the full testing pyramid (unit, integration, E2E, UAT)
- Experience with React/JavaScript testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright)
- Hands-on experience with .NET testing frameworks (xUnit, NUnit, MSTest, SpecFlow/Reqnroll)
- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress)
- Experience designing UAT processes and frameworks for enterprise applications
- Experience with test management tools (Azure DevOps Test Plans, TestRail, Zephyr, or equivalents)
- Experience with code coverage tools and quality metrics (SonarQube, dotCover, Coverlet)
- Ability to assess and uplift QA team maturity, and experience with QA transformation programs
- Strong understanding of CI/CD integration for automated testing
- Excellent documentation skills, with ability to produce clear, actionable testing standards that development teams can follow
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI-assisted test generation tools
- Experience with performance testing tools and approaches (JMeter, k6, NBomber)
- Experience with accessibility testing (axe, WAVE, Pa11y)
- Experience with BDD/ATDD approaches
About Us
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 collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.