Senior QA Engineer, Automation & Release

ExpiWell, LLC; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

ExpiWell, LLC seeks a senior QA Lead to own quality across web, iOS, Android, and API layers. You will decide release readiness, build and run automated suites, and guide where the product should improve with evidence-based UX suggestions.

You will extend Playwright web tests, implement Appium-based mobile automation on real devices, and automate API tests in Postman across regions. Strong English and cross-time-zone collaboration are required.

Qualifications

• 6–7 years in software QA with at least 4 years building test automation from the ground up.
• Strong TypeScript or JavaScript, since our suites are code that developers read and review.
• Deep, hands-on experience with Playwright for web applications.
• Hands-on experience with Appium for native iOS and Android apps, including real-device testing.
• Confident API testing in Postman: collections, environments, authentication flows, and automated runs.

Responsibilities

• Be the release gatekeeper: define the pre-release checklist, run it, and sign-off for web, iOS, and Android releases.
• Own and extend Playwright end-to-end suites for the web app and ensure green runs in promotions and nightly builds.
• Build mobile automation for iOS and Android apps using Appium on real devices.
• Create and maintain API tests in Postman with region-specific environments and automated execution in CI/CD.
• Test the participant experience end-to-end on real phones, including notifications, surveys, offline behavior, and syncing to the dashboard.
• Review the product as a user would and provide UX/workflow recommendations with evidence and mocks where useful.
• Maintain fast, stable, trustworthy suites; reduce flaky tests and report coverage, readiness, and risk.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

Playwright

Appium

CI/CD

Test Automation

Tools

Postman

Job description

You will own quality for ExpiWell across our web app, our iOS and Android apps, and the API behind them. This is a senior, hands-on role with real authority: you decide when a release is ready, you build and run the automated suites that back that decision, and you tell us where the product should work better. We are looking for a critical thinker who reasons from evidence, writes clearly, and is comfortable being the person the team looks to before anything ships.

What you'll do

• Be the release gatekeeper: define the pre-release checklist, run it, and give or withhold sign-off for every web, iOS, and Android release
• Own and extend our Playwright end-to-end suites for the web app, and make them run on every promotion and nightly so a green run means something
• Build mobile automation for the iOS and Android apps with Appium, running on real devices, and drive the groundwork it needs with the developers
• Build and maintain Postman collections for our API, with environments for each region, and run them automatically in the pipeline
• Test the participant experience end to end on real phones: notifications, scheduled surveys, offline behaviour, wearable sync, and syncing back to the dashboard
• Review the product as a user would and write clear UX and workflow recommendations with evidence, mockups where useful, and a proposed fix
• Keep suites fast, stable, and trustworthy; hunt down flaky tests rather than tolerating them, and report on coverage, readiness, and risk
• Mentor the manual QA tester, decide what is automated and what stays manual, and set the standard for bug reports and test plans

What we're looking for

• 6–7 years in software QA, with at least 4 years building test automation from the ground up
• Strong TypeScript or JavaScript, since our suites are code that developers read and review
• Deep, hands-on experience with Playwright for web applications
• Hands-on experience with Appium for native iOS and Android apps, including real-device testing
• Confident API testing in Postman: collections, environments, authentication flows, and automated runs
• Experience designing maintainable frameworks: page objects, reusable helpers, clean test-data handling
• Track record of running automation inside a continuous integration pipeline, and comfortable with version control and code review
• A critical thinker who reasons from evidence, questions assumptions, and can explain a quality risk to engineers and founders alike
• Professional-level English, written and spoken, and the ability to work independently across time zones

Nice to have

• Selenium experience, if your Playwright experience is more recent
• Experience with cloud device farms such as BrowserStack for mobile testing
• Accessibility testing (WCAG) and performance or load testing exposure
• Ability to read Swift or Kotlin well enough to follow a mobile bug to its cause
• Experience with products that handle sensitive or regulated data
• Previous experience mentoring or leading QA engineers

Must-have setup

• A home office
• An internet connection of at least 100 Mbps
• iOS and Android phones, for testing on real devices

Preferred setup

• A MacBook Pro, M1 or later
• Access to Apple Watch and Fitbit wearables