Senior Mobile Manual QA Engineer

Project description

The primary goal of the project is the modernization, maintenance and development of an eCommerce platform for a big US-based retail company, serving millions of omnichannel customers each week.

Solutions are delivered by several Product Teams focused on different domains - Customer, Loyalty, Search and Browse, Data Integration, Cart.

• - Collaborate with other teams and the client to find the best solutions
  - Quickly onboard to Customer's processes, product domain, and supported device landscape QA activities:
  
  - Test design, creation and maintenance of test cases, checklists, and regression suites
  - Manual functional, regression, smoke, and exploratory testing of iOS and Android applications
  - Define and maintain the device/OS coverage matrix; execute testing on real devices, simulators, and cloud device farms
  - Mobile-specific verification: interruptions, network conditions, permissions, app lifecycle, install/upgrade flows, performance and battery behaviour- API testing (SOAP/REST) and traffic inspection to isolate client-side vs. backend defects
  - Release candidate verification and support of App Store / Google Play submission checks
  - Apply AI-assisted testing tools to accelerate test design, exploratory coverage, and defect analysis
  - Report and track the status of issues in the bug-tracking system, ensuring reproducible steps, logs, and evidence
  - Participate in requirements review, refinement, and estimation; raise risks and ambiguities early
  - Contribute to QA reporting - test progress, coverage, and quality metrics for the client

• - 5+ years working as a QA Engineer with a focus on mobile application testing
  - Hands-on manual testing of native, hybrid, and mobile web apps on iOS and Android
  - Test Design - strong level (equivalence partitioning, boundary values, decision tables, state transition, exploratory/risk-based testing)- Test Approach - ability to define test strategy, scope, and device/OS coverage matrix from scratch
  - Mobile-specific testing expertise: interruptions (calls, notifications), network conditions (offline, 2G-5G, switching), permissions, app lifecycle (background/foreground/kill), install-upgrade-uninstall flows, battery and performance behaviour
  
  - Experience with real devices, emulators/simulators, and cloud device farms (Browser Stack, Sauce Labs, Perfecto or similar)- SOAP/REST API testing (Postman, Charles Proxy / Proxyman or similar for traffic inspection)
  - Experience of the formal software development lifecycle, with a solid grasp of manual testing methodologies and tools
  - Defect management and test documentation in Jira + Test Rail / Zephyr / Xray- AI-driven testing tools - working familiarity (test case generation, exploratory support, defect triage)- Awareness of App Store / Google Play release and submission requirements
  - Keen to learn new technologies and tools

• - Accessibility (WCAG, Voice Over/Talk Back) and localization testing
• - Basic scripting or exposure to Appium/Espresso/XCUITest for collaboration with automation engineers
• - Analytics/crash-reporting tooling (Firebase Crashlytics, App Center)