Senior Mobile QA Automation Engineer

Job Description:

QA automation is a key component of Kaplan's ability to quickly launch high-quality, innovative education products to our students. As an integral member of a cross-functional Agile team, you will use industry-standard tools and frameworks to conduct functional and performance testing on web applications, mobile applications, and APIs.

In this role you will:

Develop automated mobile application test scripts that are robust, performant, and maintainable using Appium, Espresso, XCUITest or other tools.

Ensure that applications and APIs developed by the team are reliable and meet user’s needs

Work closely with developers, designers, and devops to meet team commitments

Manage the timeline and status of the software release process

Work with the Tech Lead to improve software development and quality assurance processes

Provide the product owner with information they need to prioritize features (e.g., effort estimates, alternatives, technical risk)

Work closely with developers to learn implementation details about product feature and perform releases

Provide production support of software products by investigating and recreating reported defects

Work closely with stakeholders to implement with different types of Performance Testing like : Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Capacity Testing, Reliability Testing

You must have:

Minimum 5 or more years of software testing and quality assurance

BS/MS in a relevant field (Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent experience

A Good understanding of the mobile devices, their peripheral devices, networks etc.

A Good understanding of the Android and iOS designs and its components.

Hands on experience with emulators, simulators.

Hands on experience by testing mobile app performances with automation application testing tools.

Well versed with different types of Performance Testing like : Load Testing, Stress Testing, Volume Testing, Capacity Testing, Reliability Testing. etc

Experience in developing end to end system level automation and tools design

& development

Experience with mobile automated testing frameworks, such as Appium, Espresso, or XCUITest.

Strong experience working with Selenium WebDriver either with TestNG, Junit or Nunit.

Hands on Experience in building automation framework for Android and IOS.

Good experience & knowledge of any one Language Java or Python/C#.

Experience with API testing and performance testing with tools such as JMeter, Rest Assured or Soasta

Familiarity with standard web and mobile architectures, both hardware and software

Drive adoptions of best practices in code, testing and maintainability.

Proficient with Devops and concept for example : Jenkins, Git and Docker

Familiarity with Amazon Web Services is a plus.

Experience with the entire software lifecycle - requirements capture, analysis, design, implementation, quality assurance, deployment, and maintenance

Perform Mobile test task estimation, test execution, Regression testing, Functional System testing

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Good analytical and problem solving skills

Be motivated to meet commitments and deliver the highest value possible