# iOS/Android Automation Engineer

**Company:** [Sesame](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sesame)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Bellevue, WA
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Salary:** $175k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** xcuitest, xctest, espresso, appium, maestro, detox, testrail, Datadog, firebase, CI/CD, iOS, Android
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Build and own iOS and Android test automation in CI for Sesame's voice companion app. Deliver quality signals for releases, triage failures, automate key user flows, and partner with engineers to improve testing and release reliability. Requires 7-8 years QA experience including 4+ years of mobile automation.

## Job Description

## 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.

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