Lead/Senior Automation Engineer - Mobile Testing (4-10 yrs)

Role : Lead Quality Automation Engineer (Mobile / React Native)

Experience : 4-10 Yrs

Location : Bangalore

Notice Period : Immediate - 30 days

Skills Required : Appium, TypeScript, Automation Testing

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Act as the technical lead on a team of mobile quality engineers to design, develop, and execute test automation to ensure the quality and reliability of our software products

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, and quality engineers to identify test requirements and devise comprehensive test strategies

- Act as a technical adviser in buy vs. build decisions on test automation tools and frameworks

- Contribute to and maintain test frameworks and tools

- Consistently ship automation code and test framework components with minimal guidance and review pull requests

- Follow and suggest improvements to the workflow processes for software delivery

- Collaborate with Engineering and Product team members to ensure quality automation is meeting or exceeding the needs of the team to which they are assigned

- Follow and enhance the standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for high-scale mobile platforms; advocate for these standards in code reviews.

- Make and deliver on your work commitments in a timely manner

- Accurately estimate the level of effort for work and keep accurate records of progress and completion of work

- Inform the organizations development process by understanding the detailed functional requirements and non-functional considerations as well as the needs and expertise of the other squads

- Provide guidance and teach others in your area of expertise

- Present your work to other members of the Engineering organization

- Contribute to overall project plans and your work by collaborating with your team, consulting the broader Engineering organization, and doing online research

- Perform work on multiple concurrent engineering efforts with minimal supervision

Skills & Qualifications :

- 3+ years experience as a technical engineering lead in test/quality on an enterprise mobile-centric B2B platform

- 7+ years of professional experience as a software development engineer in test on a mobile platform

- Deep experience using Appium (with Webdriver.io) for the development of front-end test automation capabilities in support of the delivery of mobile solutions built on React Native

- Extensive experience leveraging Gherkin and Cucumber for defining and executing test cases

- Demonstrated, hands-on mastery of JavaScript and TypeScript for the development of test automation in a mobile environment (specific experience with React Native)

- Positive and solution-oriented mindset

- Effective communication skills : Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates.

- Intellectually curious with a background in using data to measure and explore how to evolve our technology

- An inclination towards inclusion, candor, and transparency

- Ability to create integration and end-to-end automated tests.

- Professional experience with Continuous Integration Pipelines and Automation using GitHub Actions

- Professional experience using Git in a professional/workplace environment.