**Who You'll Work With**
At Slalom Build we co-create modern technology and software products with clients who are ready to accelerate their digital transformation. We choose to imagine things made better, and then set out on a journey to realize what's possible. By blending design, product engineering, analytics, and automation, we build the custom-built software and data products of tomorrow.
Slalom Build's Quality Engineering capability brings a modern approach to software quality, playing a critical role in high-velocity software engineering teams. We work with current and emerging tools and techniques to help build reliable, scalable software. Our expertise in software quality principles and techniques enables key principles of whole-team ownership of quality, close proximity of software development and test activities, and reliable, scalable test automation.
Our capability is comprised of passionate, flexible technologists who love to practice and hone their craft. As tools evolve and technologies emerge, we work to stay in front of innovation in automated software development and delivery.
We work in cross-functional teams to build full-stack solutions across a range of established and emerging technologies and techniques, including:
- APIs and back-end services built using emerging frameworks and architectural patterns. Examples include microservices, Node, Typescript, Java and.Net.
- Operational efficiencies leveraging modern ecosystems and automated build and deployment pipelines.
- Collaborative build practices that allow our teams to be agile and responsive to our clients' needs.
**What You'll Do**
As a Senior Engineer, you will bring your expertise in software quality techniques and tools to a collaborative, teambased environment. You will dive into the technical details, collaborating to design an optimal testing approach. You will
work across multiple tech stacks and implement automation using a variety of tools. As a champion of quality, you will
enable the team to maintain and improve velocity. Your growing experience and learning mindset enable you to take on
a variety of new challenges and establish areas of expertise. You will have opportunities to share your knowledge and
help us continually elevate the Quality Engineering capability.
Specifically, you will:
- Deconstruct solutions into tests that optimize for coverage and risk
- Create trusted test automation with high reliability and relevancy
- Extend test automation frameworks to incorporate new functionality
- Assess and advise on testability of user stories, including acceptance criteria, non-functional requirements, and
- the definition of done.
- Share what you learn with your teams and the other members of the QE community
**What You'll Bring**
As a Senior Engineer in the Quality Engineering capability, you are experienced with working in an Agile team-based environment, and you consistently add velocity to the team. You confidently use code to build reliable, trusted test automation. You help define clear acceptance criteria, facilitate defect triage, and produce quality metrics. You possess an inquisitive, exploratory mindset, combined with strong test planning, communication, and organizational skills. You may have built deep expertise in a particular area of modern software quality, or you may have a breadth of experience across technology solutions. Your learning mindset enables you to take on new challenges to expand and deepen your skills across a wide variety of technology stacks. A computer science-based mindset is needed; a technology-based education is helpful.
**About Us**
Slalom Build is a highly scalable, high-velocity Build as a Service firm. We work with clients in a flexible, collaborative, and repeatable methodology to create custom technology solutions for their most impactful initiatives and to accelerate their digital transformation journey. Over 1500 Builders strong, distributed across the globe, our innovation hubs attract the type of people who contribute to thriving teams. By placing builders in close proximity to clients - as well as their cultural and technology cohorts - we can assure the quality, versatility, and speed that product delivery demands, along with the elasticity and scale to tailor to individual client needs.