Senior QA Automation Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to drive automation across our software quality assurance processes, with a strong focus on Android and iOS applications, APIs, and backend integrations.

Job Summary:

• We are seeking an experienced Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to drive automation across our software quality assurance processes, with a strong focus on Android and iOS applications, APIs, and backend integrations.
• The successful candidate will own the QA automation strategy, build and maintain scalable testing frameworks, and embed automated quality checks into the software development and release lifecycle.
• This role requires a hands-on engineer who can improve test coverage, accelerate regression testing, strengthen release confidence, and mentor other QA engineers.

Qa Strategy And Test Planning:

• Define and implement a risk-based QA strategy, prioritising automation of critical user journeys, regression suites, APIs, and backend integrations.
• Review product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical designs to identify gaps, clarify expected behaviour, and ensure testability early in development.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, test data, and traceability between requirements, tests, and defects.
• Establish clear criteria for selecting tests for automation, balancing coverage, business risk, execution time, and maintenance effort.
• Collaborate with developers to strengthen unit and integration test coverage and prevent defects earlier in the development lifecycle.

Test Automation And Framework Development:

• Design, build, and maintain reusable, scalable automation frameworks for mobile/webapplications and APIs.
• Develop automated mobile tests using tools such as Appium, WebdriverIO, or equivalent tools, and API tests using Postman/Newman, Playwright, or equivalent tools.
• Automate smoke, regression, integration, and end-to-end test suites, prioritising business-critical functionality.
• Implement reliable test data management, environment configuration, reporting, and failure diagnostics.
• Review automation code, establish coding standards, and reduce flaky tests, duplication, and unnecessary maintenance.
• Use manual and exploratory testing where human judgement or investigative testing provides greater value than automation.

Functional And Non-functional Testing:

• Validate Android and iOS applications across relevant devices, operating system versions, screen sizes, and network conditions.
• Test APIs and backend integrations, including authentication, authorisation, error handling, data integrity, and critical business workflows.
• Validate application behaviour under interrupted connectivity, background and foreground transitions, permission changes, and session expiry.
• Plan and execute performance, stability, compatibility, accessibility, and recovery testing appropriate to the product.
• Perform security-focused checks within the QA scope and collaborate with engineering or security specialists on deeper security assessments.
• Use SQL queries, application logs, and debugging tools to validate data and investigate failures.

Ci/cd And Release Quality:

• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines, with appropriate checks for pull requests, builds, and releases.
• Define and maintain quality gates, test execution schedules, and release-readiness criteria with engineering and product teams.
• Investigate test failures, distinguish product defects from environment or automation issues, and ensure timely resolution.
• Provide release quality reports highlighting test results, coverage gaps, unresolved defects, residual risks, and release recommendations.
• Support post-release validation and translate production defects into improved test coverage and preventive checks.

Collaboration And Continuous Improvement:

• Work closely with product managers, developers, designers, and DevOps engineers to embed quality throughout delivery.
• Log, prioritise, track, and verify defects, providing clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence.
• Mentor QA engineers in test design, automation development, debugging, and quality engineering practices.
• Track and improve QA metrics, including critical-flow automation coverage, regression execution time, test reliability, escaped defects, and defect resolution time.
• Continuously improve QA tools, processes, documentation, and testing efficiency.

Success Measures: Success in this role will be assessed through:

• Increased reliable automation coverage of critical user journeys, APIs, and regression scenarios.
• Reduced regression testing time and faster, more dependable release feedback.
• Stable automated test suites with fewer flaky tests and actionable failure reports.
• Effective CI/CD quality gates that identify issues before release.
• Reduced production defects, particularly high-severity and repeat issues.
• Improved QA documentation, engineering collaboration, and team capability.
• Specific targets will be agreed against the company’s baseline, product risks, and delivery priorities.

What We Offer:

• A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
• A flexible work schedule and an hybrid work environment (3day office 2 days remote ).
• A dedicated budget for continuous learning, certifications, and professional development.

Experience: 5 years

• At least five years of software QA experience, including substantial hands-on experience in test automation and mobile application testing.
• Demonstrated experience building, extending, and maintaining automation frameworks—not solely executing existing scripts.
• Practical experience testing Android and iOS applications, with strong automation expertise in at least one platform.
• Hands-on experience with Appium, WebdriverIO, or an equivalent mobile automation framework.
• Strong API testing and automation skills, including validation of authentication, authorisation, response schemas, error handling, and integration behaviour.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language used for automation, such as JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or Python.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and using Git-based version control.
• Working knowledge of SQL and database validation.
• Strong understanding of test design techniques, risk-based testing, exploratory testing, and defect management.
• Experience diagnosing failures using logs, network traffic, device debugging tools, and test execution reports.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery practices and effective collaboration across engineering and product teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of quality initiatives and mentor other QA engineers.

• Experience testing fintech, banking, payment, or other transaction-intensive applications.
• Experience validating transaction integrity, reconciliation, idempotency, and failure-recovery scenarios.
• Experience with performance and load-testing tools such as k6, JMeter, or equivalent tools.
• Familiarity with mobile and API security testing principles, including relevant OWASP guidance.
• Experience with Android Studio, ADB, Xcode, emulators, simulators, and cloud-based device testing platforms.
• Experience implementing accessibility checks and testing mobile applications against relevant accessibility requirements.
• Familiarity with service virtualisation, mocking, containerised test environments, and parallel test execution.
• Experience establishing QA standards, improving test reliability, and demonstrating measurable improvements in release quality.

Minimum qualification: BA/BSc/HND

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