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 status.