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How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)

Test Architecture and Automation

  • Design and evolve scalable, maintainable mobile test automation frameworks
  • Define automation strategy across UI, API, and integration layers
  • Build robust test suites for functional, regression, performance, and reliability testing
  • Ensure high test coverage with optimized execution time

Technical Leadership

  • Lead and mentor QA/SDET engineers; enforce best practices and coding standards
  • Conduct code reviews for test automation and contribute to production code quality
  • Partner with engineering teams to improve testability, observability, and debugging
  • Drive adoption of shift-left testing and quality-first mindset

CI/CD and DevOps Integration

  • Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated test execution gates
  • Integrate tests into pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
  • Optimize pipelines for speed, reliability, and scalability

Quality Strategy and Execution

  • Define test plans, strategies, and quality metrics (KPIs)
  • Lead risk assessment and ensure coverage for critical user journeys
  • Oversee cross-device, cross-platform testing (real devices, emulators, cloud farms)
  • Implement test data management and environment strategies

Cross-functional collaboration

  • Work closely with Product, Engineering, and DevOps teams
  • Influence design decisions to ensure high-quality, testable features
  • Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release readiness

What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

  • 7+ years of experience in QA/SDET, with strong focus on mobile applications
  • Expert-level programming skills in Java, Kotlin, Swift, Python, or JavaScript
  • Deep experience with mobile automation tools:
  • Appium (cross-platform)
  • Espresso (Android)
  • XCUITest (iOS)
  • WebdriverIO
  • Strong experience in building custom automation frameworks from scratch
  • Solid understanding of API testing (REST/GraphQL) and tools like RestAssured/Postman
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Proficiency in Git and version control workflows
  • Strong knowledge of test design techniques, SDLC, and Agile methodologies

Behavioral Competencies

  • Lead initiatives with high accountability, create a collaborative environment with a solution-based approach.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and mentor for the team offering technical advice.
  • Ability to communicate with precision, engaging team and stakeholders to build trust and reliable working relationships across cross-functional teams and geographies enabling organizational alignment.
  • Ability to set priorities with the team by understanding interdependence, inspiring team members with consistent focus, quality output, and timelines.
  • Constantly keep oneself updated on current technology & trends to drive innovative decisions through piloting forward-thinking approaches to complex problems in one's own area of work.
  • Inquisitive to understand customer priorities and business challenges while creating value for technical solutions.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

  • Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, SpecFlow)
  • Hands-on experience with cloud testing platforms (BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, Firebase Test Lab)
  • Exposure to performance testing (JMeter, k6, Gatling)
  • Experience with contract testing and service virtualization
  • Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., ELK, Datadog)
  • Knowledge of security testing practices for mobile apps

Key Competencies

  • Leadership and mentorship mindset
  • Strong system design and architectural thinking
  • Excellent debugging and root-cause analysis skills
  • Ability to influence without authority
  • Strategic thinking with attention to detail

What Success Looks Like

  • Highly stable and scalable automation framework adopted across teams
  • Reduced regression cycle time and faster releases
  • Improved defect detection earlier in the SDLC
  • Strong quality culture across engineering teams

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