Senior Quality Assurance Analyst (Mobile Automation)

<p>At AKQA we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful ideas, products and services. With an entrepreneurial and collaborative approach, we design adaptive digital services and applications that capture the imagination, delivering impressive returns for our clients.</p> <p> </p> <p>You will love working in a team of highly skilled people, all with strong opinions about various technologies, frameworks and approaches to delivery. You will be able to articulate your ideas to your colleagues effectively and will take on board the ideas of others. You will thrive when faced with new challenges and will constantly look to improve clients’ deliverables.</p> <p> </p> <p>As a Senior Mobile Automation Engineer, you are responsible for ensuring that native, hybrid and mobile web applications are delivered to specification and quality goals by leveraging mobile-first tools, frameworks and programmatic techniques. An ideal candidate for this role matches the following role requirements and carries the below qualities & characteristics.</p> <p>ROLE REQUIREMENTS</p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in QA with at least 3+ years dedicated to mobile test automation across iOS & Android platforms (native, hybrid) and mobile web.</li> <li>Strong expertise in WebdriverIO as the primary automation framework, including configuration, custom reporters, service integrations and writing maintainable Page Object Model (POM)-based test suites.</li> <li>Strong hands-on experience with Appium 2.x for automating native, hybrid and mobile web applications across iOS and Android platforms, including setup and maintenance of local and cloud-based execution environments.</li> <li>Experience writing automation scripts in JavaScript / TypeScript within the WebdriverIO ecosystem.</li> <li>Experience designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks, reusable test utilities, custom commands and reporting integrations.</li> <li>Proficiency in executing manual test cases for mobile products under development using test management tools such as TestRail, Zephyr or similar.</li> <li>Experience testing mobile web and responsive experiences across real devices and simulators/emulators.</li> <li>Experience validating RESTful APIs using Postman, Newman, or equivalent API automation frameworks, including test data validation and contract verification.</li> <li>Experience integrating mobile automation suites with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as TeamCity / GitHub Actions etc.</li> <li>Experience using cloud device farms such as BrowserStack App Automate, Sauce Labs etc. to achieve broad device and OS coverage.</li> <li>Experience testing mobile-specific capabilities such as deep links, push notifications, authentic