iOS/Android Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build and own the iOS and Android test automation that runs in our CI.
• Deliver a real quality signal on nightly, weekly, and release builds: what runs as a quick sanity check, what runs as deeper regression, and what we still test by hand. Keep iOS and Android at parity.
• Automate what people actually do in the app (onboarding, text and voice chats, payments, notifications, settings) and check that the result is right, not just that the screen showed up.
• When something fails, write it up so an engineer can fix it without reproducing it from scratch.
• Help triage bugs automatically, and tell app, backend, OS, device, network, and test-harness problems apart.
• Improve robustness and reliability: better isolation, stable test data, stronger checks, and retries where they make sense.
• Keep the dashboard, TestRail, known issues, and release notes in sync so the team sees the real risk before we ship.
• Work with the app engineers to move checks that belong in unit or integration tests down to that layer.

Required Qualifications

• 7–8 years in software QA / test engineering, including 4+ years building mobile test automation for iOS and/or Android.
• Hands-on with at least one mobile framework: XCUITest, XCTest, Espresso, Appium, Maestro, Detox, or similar.
• Strong scripting/programming; can build harnesses and small tools yourself.
• Has integrated tests into CI/CD or a release pipeline.
• Can debug a flaky failure and hand engineering something useful.
• Understands release risk and how to prioritize what gets tested.
• Comfortable when builds change often and specs aren't finished.

Preferred Qualifications

• Both iOS and Android.
• TestRail or a similar test management tool.
• Datadog, RUM, Firebase, crash reporting, or other mobile observability.
• Testing AI, voice, chat, payments, subscriptions, or latency-sensitive features.
• Building dashboards or release reports.
• Working with developers to move checks into unit or integration tests.