Android QA Engineer Appium

We're looking for a Mobile QA Automation Engineer with hands-on experience in Android application testing and Appium automation. You will own application quality across manual and automated testing, identify defects before they reach users, and help improve our Android testing processes.

Important: Hands-on Appium experience for Android application automation is mandatory. Candidates with only Selenium/web automation experience will not be suitable for this role.

Location: Bangalore — Initially remote for the first few months, followed by onsite work from our Bangalore office. Only Bangalore-based candidates should apply.

Experience: 1+ year in QA/testing with hands-on Android application testing and Appium automation

Salary: 10,000–25,000/month

Working Hours: 40 hours/week

Employment: Full-time

• User First Approach
• Own the Quality
• Honest & Constructive Communication
• Constant Improvement
• Planning & Long-Term Thinking

• Perform manual testing of Android applications across features, devices, OS versions, and user flows.
• Design, execute, and maintain functional, regression, smoke, sanity, exploratory, and compatibility test cases.
• Develop, execute, maintain, and debug Appium automation scripts for Android applications.
• Automate critical functional and regression scenarios.
• Work with Appium Inspector, Android Studio/SDK, and ADB for testing and troubleshooting.
• Identify positive, negative, boundary, and edge-case scenarios.
• Report and track defects with clear reproduction steps, severity, logs, screenshots, and supporting evidence.
• Validate bug fixes and perform regression testing before releases.
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce, investigate, and resolve issues.
• Take ownership of product quality and proactively identify issues before users encounter them.

Candidates should have hands-on experience with:

• Android Manual Testing
• Appium – Android Automation
• Writing and maintaining Appium automation scripts
• Java or Python
• TestNG, JUnit, Pytest, or equivalent framework
• Android Studio / Android SDK
• ADB (Android Debug Bridge)
• Appium Inspector / mobile element identification
• Locators, waits, synchronization, and device configurations
• Functional, regression, smoke, sanity, exploratory, and compatibility testing
• Test case design and defect lifecycle
• Testing across different Android devices and OS versions

Selenium/web automation experience alone is not sufficient for this position.

• Postman / REST API testing
• Git/GitHub
• Jenkins or other CI/CD tools
• Selenium
• Experience developing or maintaining mobile automation frameworks
• Experience testing subscriptions, payments, or other complex mobile user flows

You would be a strong fit if you:

• Have practical experience testing real Android applications.
• Have personally created and executed automation scripts using Appium.
• Can independently investigate and reproduce mobile application defects.
• Understand which scenarios should be automated versus tested manually.
• Think beyond predefined test cases and actively identify edge cases.
• Have strong debugging, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Communicate defects and testing results clearly.
• Are comfortable taking ownership of application quality.

Candidates must own an Android device suitable for application testing.

Qualification

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field is preferred but not mandatory. Relevant practical QA experience and demonstrated Android automation skills will also be considered.

• Full-time: 40 hours/week
• Participation in team meetings and DSMs
• Infofrenzy: Every Tuesday at 1:00 PM IST
• Good responsiveness and communication during working hours
• Must be comfortable transitioning from remote to onsite work in Bangalore