Mobile Software Development Engineer in Test

Overview

Design, build and maintain test automation frameworks for mobile applications and help define the overall test strategy and quality standards across products and services.

What you'll do

• Design, develop and maintain test automation frameworks from scratch or extend existing ones for mobile applications.
• Define and uphold the standards for test quality, ensuring consistency and confidence in releases.
• Write high quality, maintainable integration and end-to-end tests that follow production engineering standards.
• Build reusable test utilities, mocks and simulators.
• Contribute to and help evolve the overall test strategy for one or more products or services.
• Partner with engineers, product managers and delivery leads to embed quality thinking from day one, not as an after-thought.
• Design and oversee test strategies that combine automation, exploratory testing and regression coverage.
• Drive the implementation and evolution of automated testing frameworks, ensuring integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Own the structure and health of test suites and regression packs, keeping them lean, relevant and valuable.
• Actively test front-end, back-end, API and distributed microservices using tools like Playwright, Cypress, Postman, RestAssured and other modern frameworks.
• Perform and organise performance testing of mobile apps on various devices and platforms (iOS, Android, etc.).
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure cross-squad functionality and integration is properly tested.
• Get involved in the testing cycle, helping to investigate issues, write tests, support manual QA and sign off changes.
• Investigate defects and production issues, and ensure fixes are validated through automation.

What you'll need

• 4+ years of experience in test automation on mobile applications.
• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks and API testing tools, not just executing them.
• Confident writing automated tests in JavaScript/TypeScript using Selenium, Charles Proxy, Maestro, etc.
• Expertise in designing and executing end-to-end test strategies that align with Agile delivery.
• Automation tools: Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, UIAutomator, Maestro.
• Debugging tools: Xcode, Android Studio.
• Device clouds: TestFlight, Amazon Device Farm.
• Solid experience embedding quality early in the SDLC by working closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Principal Engineers and Delivery Managers.
• Experience working in agile continuous delivery teams, including daily coordination with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate, prioritise and drive resolution of defects based on reproducibility, business impact and release scope.

Nice to have

• Computer Science or Information Technology degree, Diploma or similar.
• CSTAE or ASTQB ISTQB Advanced Certification.
• Certified Automation Tester (e.g. Cypress, Playwright).
• Familiarity with pipeline and event-driven systems (Kafka, AWS EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, queues, streams, Snaplogic).
• Test management: Jira, Xray.

Details

• Location: Mumbai.
• Hybrid work arrangement (work from home/office).