Testing-DET-Staff

Job description – Senior Mobile Automation Tester

As a Senior Mobile Automation Tester, you will be working alongside the mobile team to develop, publish, and implement test plans. The main focus is to implement our test automation strategy to ensure clean shippable features, bug fixes, and applications at a rapid pace.

Responsibilities

• Experience on testing mobile apps (Hybrid, Native and Web Apps).
• Contribute towards development of automation framework and framework components, enhancement of framework using BDD and mobile automation tools like Appium, Espresso, XCUI Test, etc.
• Understand technical architecture of underlying application (Business & Technical) to come up with effective test cases and automate them, based on device to test and its Operating platform.
• Develop functional and end to end regression test cases for mobile applications and backend services within the automation framework for testing.
• Write, design, and execute automated tests by creating scripts that run testing functions automatically.
• Write documentation for automated processes including test strategy, test plans, and test cases.
• Log and document bugs in the tracking system.
• Experience with/Understanding of CI/CD Pipeline - DevOps, Agile and Data Testing, Test data management, Test Environment Management, etc.
• Identify any opportunity for Test Automation and perform automation.
• CICD enabled execution of automation scripts to ensure rapid and high-quality delivery of the software product.
• Analyses of automation testing result and generate reports.
• Planning and preparation of test environments to ensure test plans can be executed in a timely and efficient manner.
• Work closely with Mobile Solution Engineering team to understand the specifics of the Application, Mobile device & operating platform on which the Application would run and due considerations
• Review Design and provide feedback considering Testability of the Application/ Solution
• Contribute towards communication on progress, risks and issues as well as championing QA during delivery cycles.
• Measure and track quality assurance metrics across applications.
• Ensure Test readiness (Test Environment, Test Data, Tools Licenses etc.)
• Execute Testing, Monitor and report the Progress. Liaise with Mobile Solution Engineering Team & other relevant team for Defect resolution.
• Create Test Report and Test Sign off documentation as per Process.
• Capture and Report Test Metrics as per Process. Analyze the Metric trends, plan & implement improvement actions as necessary.
• Manage Test Team reporting into you and support team development activities for the Testing Team.
  
  

People responsibilities

• Good people management skills – Guide, Lead and motivate the team
• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training
• Should come up with innovative and smart ways of doing work, without compromising on quality
• Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures

Other details

Requirements

• BE/BTech/MCA
• Overall, 3 - 15 years of hands-on experience in Testing all types of Mobile Applications (Native, Hybrid, Mobile web) on handheld devices is a must.
• Experience automating test cases for both native iOS and Android applications using Appium and any cloud device farm such as Browserstack.
• Experience working with Selenium WebDriver.
• Experience working with Expresso for Android automation
• Experience working with XCUI Test for iOS automation
• Should be well-versed in tools like Jenkins/Azure DevOps for CICD, Git for Version Control, Xcode for testing iOS, and cloud device farms for CICD enabled executions.
• Excellent programming skills in Java or other object-oriented programming languages like Kotlin, Swift, Python, or C# to write effective test automation code.
• Unit testing with familiarity with test driven development.
• Experience working with Continuous Integration tools, e.g. Jenkins
• Android and iOS testing experience. Strong experience on one platform over the other is acceptable.
• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition.
• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices.
• Good background in automated testing tools and methodologies.
• Experience with AI-powered tools such as GitHub Copilot to enhance automation script development and improve coding efficiency.
• Familiarity with leveraging AI tools for test case generation, code suggestions, and debugging to streamline the automation process
• Ability to integrate AI solutions into the testing workflow to optimize test coverage and reduce manual effort.

Nice to Have Skills

• Exposure to Non-UI Testing like Web service testing, API testing, SOA testing
• Experience in backend testing of SQL server is a plus
• Responsive & adaptable to customer and project needs.
• Exposure to Global Projects and working with Clients at onsite is desirable
• Exposure/ Experience in Non-Functional Testing (Performance & Load Testing, Infrastructure, Security Testing etc.) would be an added advantage
• Should be ready to travel based on the Project & Client needs
• Knowledge of Mobile Application Management- control, security and compliance with respect to Mobile Application distribution & deployment is desirable. Understanding of Enterprise mobile infrastructure and cross platform development platforms like is desirable