{"id":4080784,"url":"https://alion.io/job/deloitte-associate-director-ai-quality-engineering-lead-quality-engineering-in-transform","title":"Associate Director, AI Quality Engineering Lead, Quality Engineering in Transform","company":{"id":272,"name":"Deloitte","domain":"deloitte.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/deloitte","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Avature","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":12,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":12,"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"Jira","optional":false},{"name":"Agile","optional":true},{"name":"Azure","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-11T17:11:23Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-11","last_verified_at":"2026-11-11T23:06:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Connect to your Industry\nDeloitte provides premium quality engineering services to a wide range of global clients, solving the most complex testing challenges on their most significant and highest-profile IT change programmes. Our team has grown rapidly over recent years and continues to do so, combining a wealth of deep industry knowledge with both business advisory experience and technical expertise.\nOur proposition stands apart from our competitors as we are not purely delivery-focused. We pride ourselves on providing a consultative and strategic approach to quality engineering, leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and intelligent agents to deliver innovative, efficient, and high-value outcomes for our clients.\nWant to work with the latest technologies, as part of a team helping international organisations transform their core business capabilities? Whether you’re working with AI-driven solutions, on-premise systems, Cloud technology, or custom-developed platforms, your expertise will help clients deliver continuous improvement and innovation, from initial design right through to implementation and optimisation.\nConnect to your career at Deloitte\nDeloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.\nWhat brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. 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This includes spearheading and leading our capabilities across technical testing, migration testing, automation, and AI-driven delivery.\nYou will also take responsibility for practice development activities such as developing new AI-enabled service offerings to take to market, leading thought leadership initiatives, and contributing to the management of our business. Working with leading clients and vendors across different landscapes, you will have the opportunity to drive the technical test strategy and implementation of AI and automation solutions for top-tier clients. This role will also enable you to continue developing senior relationships with client leaders and grow your leadership skills.\nResponsibilities will include:\nOwning quality engineering service delivery for one or more of our clients, with a focus on integrating AI and intelligent agents into technical testing capabilities.\nDesigning and implementing AI-driven test strategies and approaches for large, complex, or specialised client test delivery.\nPlanning and managing client test delivery, ensuring the testing meets quality, time, and cost objectives while leveraging AI and automation to optimise processes.\nProviding expert advice on AI and automation tools, techniques, and frameworks, and embedding them effectively within testing activities.\nReviewing test processes and practices, identifying opportunities for AI-driven enhancements, and coaching teams to adopt these innovations.\nManaging diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contributions.\nLeading teams internally, providing strategy, direction, and support for AI-enabled quality engineering initiatives.\nBuilding and maintaining key client stakeholder relationships and leading teams of Deloitte and client personnel.\nTaking responsibility for budgets (or portions of budgets), client deliverables, and billing.\nLeading the creation of discussion decks and client bid proposals, and participating in client orals during the client bid process.\nActing as a role model, helping to develop and mentor junior resources.\nContributing to Deloitte’s thought leadership in quality engineering, with a focus on AI and intelligent agents.\nConnect to your skills and professional experience\nTo qualify for the role, candidates must have:\nSignificant experience of leading a quality engineering team, either directly or in a professional services firm.\nExceptional communication, presentation, business writing, and professional skills, including the ability to bridge both technical and business stakeholders.\nProven experience in designing and implementing AI and intelligent agent solutions within the software development lifecycle (SDLC).\nExpertise in developing and deploying test automation frameworks, with a focus on AI-driven automation.\nExperience of working with offshore and/or nearshore teams.\nStrong experience in building and strengthening key client relationships.\nKnowledge of functional system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, and non-functional testing, including performance and automation.\nProficiency in test management tools (such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, or X-Ray).\nExperience in responding to RfPs or participating in the client bid process.\nA track record of developing thought leadership materials or go-to-market propositions.\nExcellent interpersonal skills and a self-driven attitude.\nStrong leadership and management skills, with a focus on fostering innovation.\nAcute attention to detail and a passion for delivering high-quality outcomes.\nComfort working in a fast-paced and often changeable client environment.\nStrong commercial awareness of how professional services firms and change/transformation programmes operate.\nAdditional desirable experience includes:\nISTQB Advanced / Manager level or equivalent.\nISTQB Certified Agile Tester qualification (or equivalent).\nExperience in administering test management tools (e.g., ALM, Xray for Jira, Zephyr).\nFamiliarity with emerging AI technologies and their application in quality engineering.\nConnect to your business - Technology and Transformation\nDistinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.\nEngineering, AI and Data\nWe lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.\nPersonal independence\nRegulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your \"Immediate Family Members\" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.\nConnect with your colleagues\n“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Technology and Transformation\n\"I get to work on projects that help clients in a sector I feel truly passionate about.” - Rhiannon, Technology and Transformation\n“Everyone always says “it’s the people,” and that’s true. Working for a brand you feel proud of feels pretty good too. And you don’t have any stress about fitting into a particular stereotype, because there are so many different types of people in Deloitte Digital.” - Gillian, Technology and Transformation\nOur hybrid working policy\nYou’ll be based in London or Manchester with hybrid working.\nAt Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.\nOur commitment to you\nMaking an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.\nWe want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.\nYour expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.\nConnect to your next step\nA career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. 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