Mobile QA Engineer - Apps & API Automation

Square One Resources; Burgess Hill; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Square One Resources is seeking a Quality Engineer for Mobile Applications in Burgess Hill. This initial 6-month contract involves embedding in a cross-functional Scrum team to ensure quality across the delivery lifecycle for a travel app within a financial client environment.

You will design and implement automated tests for mobile and backend APIs, with risk-based testing, CI/CD integration, and strong collaboration with engineers and product owners.

Qualifications

• Experience in Quality Engineering or Software Testing within Agile delivery.
• Hands-on testing of mobile apps and backend APIs; develop automated test suites.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, testing principles, defect management, risk-based testing.
• Experience with source control, build tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Accountability for reliability, usability, accessibility and overall product quality.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, product owners and stakeholders to clarify requirements, acceptance criteria and quality risks early.
• Define risk-based test approaches covering functional and non-functional requirements.
• Design, maintain and integrate automated tests for mobile apps, APIs and end-to-end customer journeys within CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform exploratory, integration, regression, compatibility and usability testing across devices, OS and environments.
• Validate service integrations, data flows, error handling and third-party dependencies through API and contract testing.
• Investigate and communicate defects with reproducible evidence, using logs, results, metrics and production insights to diagnose failures.
• Promote shift-left quality, testability, peer review and shared ownership within the Scrum team.
• Contribute reusable frameworks, engineering standards and continuous improvement across the Quality Engineering community.
• Use AI-assisted engineering responsibly to improve test design, automation, analysis and productivity, with appropriate human oversight.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Agile testing

Mobile testing

API testing

Automation testing

CI/CD

Source control

Build tools

Communication

Problem solving

Quality ownership

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Source control

Job description

Square One Resources is seeking a Quality Engineer for Mobile Applications in Burgess Hill. This initial 6-month contract involves embedding in a cross-functional Scrum team to ensure quality across the delivery lifecycle for a travel app within a financial client environment.

You will design and implement automated tests for mobile and backend APIs, with risk-based testing, CI/CD integration, and strong collaboration with engineers and product owners.