GG - 1515 - Senior QA Automation Engineer – Mobile & CI
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Senior QA Automation Engineer – Mobile & CI
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior QA Automation Engineer with a strong focus on mobile application testing and automation. The role requires hands-on experience across iOS and Android, automation frameworks, CI pipelines, web/API testing, and mobile usability.
Native mobile development expertise is not required, but strong mobile app testing experience is essential.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks for iOS and Android applications, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
- Test across real devices, iOS Simulator, and Android Emulator.
- Integrate and maintain mobile automation suites within CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliability and stability of automated test execution.
- Perform web and API automation testing, with a focus on critical user journeys such as ordering, payment, and customer workflows.
- Develop and execute manual, exploratory, regression, usability, and cross-platform testing strategies.
- Create and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and release validation reports.
- Work closely within a cross-functional product squad alongside Product Managers, Engineers, and Designers to ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle.
- Validate mobile releases, perform release sign-off activities, and troubleshoot issues across staging and production environments.
- Ensure strong coverage of functionality, usability, regression, performance, and cross-platform compatibility.
- Clearly communicate risks, defects, and quality metrics to stakeholders.
Must-Have Skills
- 5–6+ years of mobile app testing experience.
- Mobile automation: Strong hands-on experience with Appium, Mobilewright, or Detox, including testing on real devices. Comfortable working in Xcode with the iOS Simulator and Android Studio Emulator.
- Automation framework development: Proven experience designing, building, enhancing, and maintaining automation frameworks from scratch, not just executing existing test scripts.
- Mobile CI: Experience running and maintaining reliable mobile automation suites within CI pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions.
- Web automation: Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript.
- API testing: Postman/Newman.
- Manual & Exploratory Testing: Strong capability in exploratory, functional, usability, regression, and end-to-end testing.
- Test Planning & Release Validation: Experience creating test strategies, test plans, regression suites, and leading release validation/sign-off activities.
- Mobile release tooling: TestFlight and CodePush.
- Source control: GitHub and PR-based workflows.
- Observability: Datadog for troubleshooting staging and production issues.
- Communication & Collaboration: Strong verbal and written communication skills with experience working closely with Engineering, Product, and Business stakeholders in Agile teams.
Nice to Have
- Contract testing with Pact.
- Performance testing using JMeter or k6.
- Feature flag testing, preferably GrowthBook.
- Basic SQL.
- AI-assisted testing/tools such as Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Testim AI, or other AI-driven test generation tools.
- Experience testing React Native applications.
- Experience leveraging AI for automated test case generation, maintenance, and test data creation.
Ideal Candidate
A strong QA Automation Engineer with a mobile-first testing mindset, proven experience building and maintaining automation frameworks, strong manual and exploratory testing capabilities, and hands-on expertise across mobile, web, API, and CI/CD automation. The ideal candidate is comfortable working as an embedded member of a product squad, driving release quality, improving test automation coverage, and leveraging AI tools to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness
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