Quality Engineer - Mobile & Automation | Hybrid

Innova Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Innova Solutions is seeking a Quality Engineer for a Mobile Scrum Team on a 24 month contract. The role is inside IR35 and up to £40 per hour via umbrella, with a hybrid work pattern requiring 3 days in the London or Sussex office.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team focusing on quality engineering, automation, and exploratory testing, delivering robust test automation and risk-based testing across mobile and API layers.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills.
• Solid understanding of Quality Engineering principles, including automation, risk-based testing, and defect prevention.
• Experience working within Agile Scrum teams with Software Engineers and Product teams.
• Practical experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests.
• Proactive ownership, learning, innovation, and continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience with WDIO or similar JS/TS UI automation frameworks.
• Appium for mobile automation.
• API testing and API automation frameworks.
• CI/CD tools and practices, particularly GitHub Actions.
• Test data creation and reusable test data management approaches.
• Automation reliability engineering, including flaky test resolution.
• Logs and observability tools for defect investigation.

Responsibilities

• Embed quality early in refinement, planning, design, and technical discussions to identify risks, edge cases, dependencies, and testability concerns.
• Apply risk-based testing approaches to determine coverage based on customer impact, technical complexity, change scope, and product risk.
• Identify and communicate quality risks early, including significant defects, coverage gaps, blockers, and emerging concerns.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to improve acceptance criteria, test stability, defect prevention, and overall engineering quality.
• Provide clear quality evidence by communicating coverage, defects, outstanding risks, and confidence levels to support informed team and release decisions.
• Build and maintain automated tests at the most appropriate engineering layer, contributing to API, customer journey/end-to-end, native mobile, and other relevant automation capabilities.
• Maintain automation health by investigating failures and improving flaky, unreliable, redundant, or low-value automated tests.
• Contribute to shared Quality Engineering capabilities by adopting and enhancing established approaches across customer journey/end-to-end automation, API automation, test data management, native mobile automation, and related disciplines.
• Perform targeted exploratory testing to investigate complex behaviours, edge cases, and customer scenarios where human exploration provides additional value.
• Use analytical and investigative techniques to understand issues, identify patterns, and support root cause analysis activities.
• Work closely with engineering teams during defect investigation and resolution to ensure fast feedback and effective remediation.
• Drive continuous improvement by developing your technical capabilities, sharing knowledge, and identifying opportunities to improve testing, automation, and engineering practices.
• Support a culture of shared ownership, learning, experimentation, and quality-focused engineering.
• Contribute to the evolution of quality engineering standards, tooling, and best practices across the wider organization.

Skills

Automation testing

WDIO

Appium

JavaScript/TypeScript

API testing

GitHub Actions

Exploratory testing

Agile Scrum

Root cause analysis

Quality advocacy

Tools

WebdriverIO

Appium

JavaScript

TypeScript

GitHub Actions

Job description

Innova Solutions is seeking a Quality Engineer for a Mobile Scrum Team on a 24 month contract. The role is inside IR35 and up to £40 per hour via umbrella, with a hybrid work pattern requiring 3 days in the London or Sussex office.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team focusing on quality engineering, automation, and exploratory testing, delivering robust test automation and risk-based testing across mobile and API layers.