Mobile Automation Engineer

Project Overview

Our client is seeking a Mobile Automation Engineer for a critical project.

Mobile Automation Engineer

Columbus, Ohio – Hybrid

$50-$55/hr W2

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for Android native applications using Appium.
• Integrate tests with Sauce Labs Real Device Cloud for parallel, cross-device execution.
• Establish and enforce mobile automation best practices, page object patterns, and framework architecture.
• Partner with Android developers to define testability requirements early in the development cycle.
• API & Integration Testing
  • Build and manage API automation collections in Postman and execute them via Newman in CI pipelines.
  • Write contract and integration tests to validate backend services consumed by the Android app.
  • Maintain a shared Postman workspace, environment strategy, and collection versioning across teams.
• Performance & Load Testing
  • Design and execute load, stress, and soak tests using Apache JMeter to validate backend scalability.
  • Define performance benchmarks, analyze JMeter results, and report trends to engineering and product teams.
  • Integrate performance test runs into the release pipeline with actionable pass/fail thresholds.
• CI/CD Pipeline Engineering
  • Build and maintain automated test pipelines in Azure Dev Ops using YAML-based multi-stage definitions.
  • Configure pipeline triggers, agents, artifact publishing and test result reporting dashboards.

• 3+ years of hands‑on experience writing automation for native Android applications.
• Proficiency with Appium (2.x preferred) — setup, configuration, and test design patterns.
• Demonstrated experience running mobile test suites on Sauce Labs Real Device Cloud.
• Strong API automation skills using Postman, including environment management and Newman CLI.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure Dev Ops with YAML.
• Practical knowledge of load and performance testing with Apache JMeter.
• Working knowledge of AWS core services (S3, EC2, Cloud Watch) for test infrastructure.
• Experience with Git and feature-branch or trunk‑based development workflows.
• Strong debugging skills — able to triage flaky tests and correlate failures to root causes.