Hybrid Quality Engineer - Mobile Apps & API Automation

Square One Resources Limited; Burgess Hill; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Square One Resources Limited is seeking a Quality Engineer - Mobile Applications to join a cross-functional Scrum team in a hybrid setup near Burgess Hill. The role focuses on preventing defects, automating testing and delivering high-quality mobile and API software for a global financial services client.

You will build risk-based test strategies, design automated tests for mobile apps and APIs, and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, while promoting shared ownership of quality across engineers

Qualifications

• Experience in Quality Engineering or Software Testing in Agile.
• Willing to work on-site three days a week near Burgess Hill.
• Hands-on testing of mobile apps and backend APIs.
• Ability to develop and maintain automated test suites.
• Strong SDLC, testing principles, defect management, risk-based testing.
• Experience with source control, build tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to define requirements, acceptance criteria and quality risks.
• Develop risk-based test strategies for functional and non-functional needs.
• Design and maintain automated tests for mobile apps, APIs and journeys.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD for fast feedback and reliable releases.
• Conduct exploratory, integration, regression, compatibility and usability tests.
• Validate API integrations, data flows and third-party dependencies.
• Investigate defects using logs, tests, metrics and production insights.
• Promote shift-left testing and shared quality ownership in the Scrum team.
• Contribute reusable automation frameworks and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Use AI-assisted engineering to enhance test design and productivity.

Skills

Quality engineering

Agile testing

Automated testing

CI/CD

API testing

Mobile testing

Root cause analysis

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Build tools

Job description

Square One Resources Limited is seeking a Quality Engineer - Mobile Applications to join a cross-functional Scrum team in a hybrid setup near Burgess Hill. The role focuses on preventing defects, automating testing and delivering high-quality mobile and API software for a global financial services client.

You will build risk-based test strategies, design automated tests for mobile apps and APIs, and integrate them into CI/CD pipelines, while promoting shared ownership of quality across engineers