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About the role

• Seeking a strong and experienced senior mobile test automation developer and mobile manual tester with proven background in building and delivering efficient test automation infrastructure and frameworks driving mobile testing of systems and logic to ensure quality releases and products. The successful candidate must have a foundation in testing mobile applications software and developing automation solutions for Android and/or iOS. The successful candidate will work in testing and debugging native applications for mobile devices. This position will be responsible for testing mobile applications and contributing to the team’s existing automated testing framework in terms of enhancing the framework in terms of designing and developing automated test cases and in terms of converting existing manual test cases to automated test cases. This position is expected to bring industry best practices of source control, code review, automated testing (unit and regression) to the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of test engineers (automation and manual) and ability to assign tasks and manage their deliveries.

• Test native mobile applications that make heavy use of networking code, both manually and via automation. This role is a hybrid between a traditional software QA role and an automation engineer. The bulk and the emphasis of the work is expected to be in automation, while manual testing work should be on an as needed basis only

• Understand the requirements, design and build manual and automated test scenarios to thoroughly test mobile apps’ features and logic

• Adopt various testing methodologies like exploratory, regression, acceptance, validation, boundary and sanity testing to ensure features are usable, reliable and work as designed and specified

• Design and implement test scripts and automated UI tests

• Design and implement canaries or other equivalent automated product monitoring structures

• Responsible for testing all functionalities and features of our mobile applications on handheld devices, ensuring the applications meet the required standards and requirements. Able to load application software to iOS and Android devices and extract data from those for debugging and defect reporting purposes

• Performance/Load testing: Coordinate with development teams for benchmarking of product before releasing. Conduct suitable experiments for performance testing & running performance tests

• Work closely with mobile developers to recognize and report all discovered problems, bottlenecks, deadlock, non-responsive states and any other issue that compromises the quality of the product. Be prompt in defect reporting, work with developers and tech leads, followup

• Be actively involved in all phases of testing life cycles such as Functional, Regression, End2End, Alpha & Release Testing, write and execute test plans and test cases

• Be creative in designing and executing tests for edge or rare cases. “Think like a user”, try to replicate real users’ actions, thinking and behaviors with respect to the product

• Be actively involved in Agile development model, working with developers in sprints, in-sprint testing and defect reporting, participate in Agile ceremonies

• identify and implement QA processes and best practices as part of providing quality products for the Business, with no quality escapes

Key Skills

• Should have minimum 3 years of manual testing experience

• Should have minimum 5 years of test automation development experience for mobile

• Should be a person familiar with testing native mobile applications as well as with IDEs, testing and profiling tools

• Experience with testing tools such as Appium, ADB, Postman Rest API, Charles Proxy

• Experience with Python for automation and pycharm

• Experience with Zephyr integration with JIRA.

• Experience with programming languages such as Java and or Swift is a value add

• Experience creating test frameworks ground up ● Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts

• Experience with GitLab based CI/CD

• Knowledge of version control systems preferably Bitbucket or Github

• Good understanding of HTTP/S communication

• Understanding of Bluetooth and Location functions on a mobile phone

• Understanding of JSON formats and parsers

• Experience with Android Studio and/or Xcode is a value add

• Experience with Instrumentation and Profiling tools

• Working knowledge of native apps support, properties, behavior and life cycle in the iOS and Android OS

• Experience working in Agile-scrum environment and using Agile methodologies and tools

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively with others

• Good documentation skills

• Flexible to attempt alternate solutions to resolve issues and adjust to a dynamic, changing technical and business environment

• Should have the ability to work independently and be a self-starter. Direction and support will be provided by the manager or technical lead, but the candidate is expected to be a proactive member and put forth his/her own ideas