Mobile QA Engineer (Manual)

Experis - ManpowerGroup; London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services company is seeking an experienced Mobile QA Engineer (Manual) for a hybrid role in London. The position involves collaborating with product teams, executing tests, and enhancing automation frameworks for mobile applications. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in iOS and Android testing, automation tools, and excellent communication skills. This is a contract role inside IR35, requiring flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of technical experience in software testing.
• Hands-on testing experience in iOS and Android mobile platforms.
• Minimum 3+ years of mobile app Automation experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams to create test plans and cases.
• Execute functional and automated tests.
• Contribute to the development of UI automated testing frameworks.

Skills

iOS testing

Android testing

Automation tools

API testing

Debugging skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Appium

Postman

Katalon

Espresso

XCUITest

Job description

My Client, a large global financial services brand is looking for an experienced Mobile QA Engineer (Manual) on an initial contract basis. The role is Inside IR35 and Hybrid in London (3 days based onsite).

We're looking for a Mobile QA Engineer (Manual) to work on award winning mobile applications that will be used by millions of customers worldwide. We want someone with strong technical skills and creativity. Should enjoy solving tough problems and working with new technologies. You should not be shy about sharing your ideas and be obsessive about user experience and high quality.

You'll be part of the Mobile Engineering team whose mandate is to develop new products and platforms for customers. Mobile Engineering's aim is to build interactive experiences at all touch points of a consumer's journey whether before, at, or after the time of purchase.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Design and Development teams to understand product requirements and create comprehensive test plan and test cases.
• Execute functional and automated tests to verify the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of functionality.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of UI automated testing frameworks built on Espresso (Android) and XCUITest (iOS).
• Analyse requirements and determine technical feasibility for Automation.
• Integrate automated tests into CI to identify issues during development cycle.
• Contribute to PR reviews, submit PRs, and contribute to the goal of 100% regression automation readiness.
• Develop and maintain robust, scalable, reusable automated test scripts across applications.
• Identify, document, and track defects, working closely with development teams to ensure timely resolution and retesting.
• Improve QA delivery and quality through defining test strategy, process improvements, coordination with multiple back end teams.
• Work with the development team to define and implement mechanisms to inject testing earlier into the software development process via mocking strategy.
• Prioritise competing demands, manage multiple concurrent tasks, adapt to changing priorities.
• Participate in regression testing to validate new enhancements don't negatively impact existing functionality.
• Continuously improve the QA process and contribute to the development of testing best practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of technical experience with a bachelor's or master's degree in science (preferably Computer Science, Engineering, or other related disciplines).
• Must have hands-on testing experience in iOS and Android mobile platforms by leveraging various functional and automated tools.
• Minimum 3+ years of mobile app Automation experience with tools like Monkey Talk, Selendriod, Appium, Katalon etc.
• Possesses deep knowledge on Functional, Integration, Regression, Exploratory, End to End, Compatibility, GUI, Web Services and Accessibility testing.
• Good Understanding of Swift, Kotlin or similar functional programming language.
• Strong programming abilities and debugging skills.
• Excellent API testing experience using Postman, IntelliJ Http Client, or similar tools.
• Strong experience with Debugging tools like Charles Proxy, Splunk, Sentry, Console or similar.
• Excellent communication and team player.
• Experience with full life cycle software deployment using Agile practices.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.