GG - 1515 - Senior QA Automation Engineer – Mobile & CI

Location: Hyderabad, India; Kochi, India; Mohali, India

Department: Software Quality Assurance

Experience: 8+

• • Build, maintain, and enhance automated test frameworks for iOS and Android applications, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
  • Test across real devices, iOS Simulator, and Android Emulator.
  • Integrate and maintain mobile automation suites within CI/CD pipelines, ensuring reliability and stability of automated test execution.
  • Perform web and API automation testing, with a focus on critical user journeys such as ordering, payment, and customer workflows.
  • Develop and execute manual, exploratory, regression, usability, and cross-platform testing strategies.
  • Create and maintain test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and release validation reports.
  • Work closely within a cross-functional product squad alongside Product Managers, Engineers, and Designers to ensure quality throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Validate mobile releases, perform release sign-off activities, and troubleshoot issues across staging and production environments.
  • Ensure strong coverage of functionality, usability, regression, performance, and cross-platform compatibility.
  • Clearly communicate risks, defects, and quality metrics to stakeholders.

• • 5–6+ years of mobile app testing experience.
  • Mobile automation: Strong hands-on experience with Appium, Mobilewright, or Detox, including testing on real devices. Comfortable working in Xcode with the iOS Simulator and Android Studio Emulator.
  • Automation framework development: Proven experience designing, building, enhancing, and maintaining automation frameworks from scratch, not just executing existing test scripts.
  • Mobile CI: Experience running and maintaining reliable mobile automation suites within CI pipelines, ideally GitHub Actions.
  • Web automation: Playwright with TypeScript/JavaScript.
  • API testing: Postman/Newman.
  • Manual & Exploratory Testing: Strong capability in exploratory, functional, usability, regression, and end-to-end testing.
  • Test Planning & Release Validation: Experience creating test strategies, test plans, regression suites, and leading release validation/sign-off activities.
  • Mobile release tooling: TestFlight and CodePush.
  • Source control: GitHub and PR-based workflows.
  • Observability: Datadog for troubleshooting staging and production issues.
  • Communication & Collaboration: Strong verbal and written communication skills with experience working closely with Engineering, Product, and Business stakeholders in Agile teams.

• • Contract testing with Pact.
  • Performance testing using JMeter or k6.
  • Feature flag testing, preferably GrowthBook.
  • Basic SQL.
  • AI-assisted testing/tools such as Claude, Copilot, Cursor, Testim AI, or other AI-driven test generation tools.
  • Experience testing React Native applications.
  • Experience leveraging AI for automated test case generation, maintenance, and test data creation.