Own quality for a large mobile platform through hands-on exploratory/manual testing and automation advocacy. Shift testing left with dev/product/design, build and scale automation frameworks (Appium/Java/Cucumber), push coverage into unit/component/contract layers, use AI-augmented tooling for test design and triage, and influence distributed teams to increase automation and improve QA processes.
This is a remote position.
We're looking for a QA Engineer who is equal parts hands-on tester and automation advocate. You'll own quality for a large, complex mobile platform, and you'll do it by combining sharp exploratory and manual testing with a relentless push to automate the right things at the right layer.
This is not a role that sits at the end of the pipeline writing test cases. You'll work to shift testing left with developers, product, and design from the moment a story is shaped, help teams move away from a top-heavy, E2E-dependent suite toward a balanced testing model, and hold engineering teams accountable for the coverage they own. You'll build and scale the automation framework, but just as importantly you'll influence where tests live - pushing coverage down into unit, component, and contract layers so that the E2E suite stays small, fast, and trustworthy.
You'll also use AI-augmented tooling to accelerate test design, triage, and automation development, and you'll bring ideas for how quality engineering should evolve across a distributed, multi-team environment.
This is not a role that sits at the end of the pipeline writing test cases. You'll work to shift testing left with developers, product, and design from the moment a story is shaped, help teams move away from a top-heavy, E2E-dependent suite toward a balanced testing model, and hold engineering teams accountable for the coverage they own. You'll build and scale the automation framework, but just as importantly you'll influence where tests live - pushing coverage down into unit, component, and contract layers so that the E2E suite stays small, fast, and trustworthy.
You'll also use AI-augmented tooling to accelerate test design, triage, and automation development, and you'll bring ideas for how quality engineering should evolve across a distributed, multi-team environment.
Requirements
• 5+ years of professional QA / quality engineering experience, with strong depth in both manual and automation testing.
• Strong understanding of QA principles, testing methodologies, and QA processes across the SDLC/STLC.
• Strong experience in test case design and testing native Android and iOS mobile applications.
• Hands-on experience with Appium and Cucumber; Java strongly preferred (our stack is Appium + Java + Cucumber + BrowserStack).
• Experience in integration testing and API automation, with the ability to design, develop, and maintain automated integration test suites.
• Experience designing, maintaining, and scaling automation frameworks - not just writing tests inside someone else's framework.
• Demonstrated judgment about test placement: knowing what belongs where being able to argue for it.
• Track record of influencing engineering teams toward automation by driving adoption, setting standards, and holding others accountable without formal authority.
• Comfortable using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code) to improve QA productivity, test design, and automation development.
• Ability to bring innovative ideas that improve quality, accelerate testing, and increase automation coverage.
• Good working knowledge of Jira.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including working effectively with distributed and vendor teams.
• Strong understanding of QA principles, testing methodologies, and QA processes across the SDLC/STLC.
• Strong experience in test case design and testing native Android and iOS mobile applications.
• Hands-on experience with Appium and Cucumber; Java strongly preferred (our stack is Appium + Java + Cucumber + BrowserStack).
• Experience in integration testing and API automation, with the ability to design, develop, and maintain automated integration test suites.
• Experience designing, maintaining, and scaling automation frameworks - not just writing tests inside someone else's framework.
• Demonstrated judgment about test placement: knowing what belongs where being able to argue for it.
• Track record of influencing engineering teams toward automation by driving adoption, setting standards, and holding others accountable without formal authority.
• Comfortable using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code) to improve QA productivity, test design, and automation development.
• Ability to bring innovative ideas that improve quality, accelerate testing, and increase automation coverage.
• Good working knowledge of Jira.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including working effectively with distributed and vendor teams.
Desirable
• Experience with contract testing and service virtualization / API mocking (e.g. Microcks).
• Experience with performance, accessibility, or security testing for mobile applications.
• Experience testing applications backed by a BFF or microservices architecture.
• Experience with feature flags, progressive rollouts, and testing in production-like conditions.
• Familiarity with mobile release processes, app store submission, and staged rollouts.
• Experience with observability tooling and using logs, traces, and crash analytics to investigate defects.
• Experience with headless CMS or content-driven applications.
• Experience with performance, accessibility, or security testing for mobile applications.
• Experience testing applications backed by a BFF or microservices architecture.
• Experience with feature flags, progressive rollouts, and testing in production-like conditions.
• Familiarity with mobile release processes, app store submission, and staged rollouts.
• Experience with observability tooling and using logs, traces, and crash analytics to investigate defects.
• Experience with headless CMS or content-driven applications.
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