Senior QA Automation Engineer; Mobile – Appium

Job Title:

Senior QA Automation Engineer (Mobile – Appium)

Location:

Nashville TN Work model:
Flexible (work from office at least 3 days a week) (Local candidates)

Domain:
Native Mobile Apps (iOS & Android)

USC, GC

Video + Onsite

• Test Automation Ownership:
  Design, implement, and maintain mobile automation frameworks in Python + Appium + Pytest for native iOS and Android applications.
• CI/CD & Quality Gates:
  Integrate test suites into CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins/Git Hub Actions) with parallelization, flakiness control, and actionable test reporting (HTML/Allure/Extent).
• Release Readiness:
  Define and run smoke, regression, and E2E suites for release candidates; sign-off on quality gates across environments.
• Test Strategy & Coverage:
  Collaborate with Product/Dev to derive risk-based test strategies, traceability (user stories → test cases), and coverage for complex mobile flows (offline/online, push, deep links, permissions).
• Quality Engineering:
  Champion best practices in test design (AAA, Page Object/Screenplay), data management, mocks/stubs, and deterministic test execution.
• Defect Lifecycle:
  Triage failures quickly, provide high-quality bug reports with logs, screenshots, and videos from device farms; verify fixes and drive closure.
• Observability & Tooling:
  Leverage network proxy tools (e.g., Charles) and logcat/syslog to debug; contribute utilities, fixtures, and helpers that improve developer productivity.
• Mentoring & Reviews:
  Conduct code reviews for test code, mentor junior QAs, and elevate engineering bar for mobile quality.

• 5–8 years of QA experience with 3+ years focused on mobile automation (iOS & Android) using Appium.
• Strong proficiency in Python and Pytest (fixtures, parametrization, markers, command-line options).
• Proven experience testing native mobile apps (UIKit/Swift/Objective-C on iOS; Kotlin/Java on Android—consuming from QA perspective).
• Solid understanding of mobile app build pipelines and artifacts (APK/AAB, IPA, signing, provisioning profiles) and OS-level nuances (permissions, back grounding, network conditions).
• Experience with Git, branching strategies, and CI (Jenkins/Git Hub Actions/Azure Dev Ops).
• Strong fundamentals in STLC/SDLC, test design techniques, defect lifecycle, and regression management.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in cross-functional agile teams.

• Experience with Selenium for complementary web flows in the same ecosystem.
• Exposure to API testing (e.g., Python requests or REST Assured conceptually), and contract testing basics.
• Performance testing exposure for mobile endpoints (JMeter or equivalent).
• Familiarity with TestNG/JUnit concepts (for cross-stack collaboration), Maven/Gradle basics, or reporting frameworks like Allure/Extent.
• Knowledge of security testing fundamentals (e.g., using Burp Suite) for mobile API traffic.
• Prior experience with Charles/Proxyman for network inspection and throttling tests.
• Experience working in product-led environments with rapid release cycles.
• CI/CD & VCS:
  Jenkins / Git Hub Actions, Git/Bitbucket
• Debugging & Observability:
  Charles Proxy, adb, Xcode/iOS logs, Android logcat
• Reporting:
  Allure / HTML / Extent (or team standard)

$000,000 – $000,000 Salary range is not shown on the candidate portal