Senior Mobile QA Engineer

Job title:

Senior Mobile QA Engineer

Company

Benefex

Job description

Who are Benefex? 💚💜We are a fast-moving technology company, and one of the most successful providers of online reward and benefits solutions in the UK. We believe no one comes to work to do a bad job or be actively disengaged, and that technology is instrumental in providing an exceptional employee experience. We are striving to create seamless but tangible interactions between employers and employees, making work a rewarding place for every single one of us. To help us on our quest to be the best, we need brilliant people on board and that’s where you come in. 🚀Why should you apply? 🌟

• Impact: As our first dedicated mobile QA you will directly shape the testing of our fast growing mobile product offerings
• Greenfield: Design and implement automation testing across our mobile apps, help define the tooling and approach taken to mobile QA testing
• Team: Play an important role in the wider QA team, coaching and mentoring the other engineers and embedding best mobile QA practices
• People: work with talented engineers from the likes of Monzo, Google, Microsoft, Personio and other great tech companies. These are people that care about supporting one another and building great products that users love.
• Top 10 Employer, Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards
• Work for a profitable, fast-growing market leader in the online reward and benefits space

**Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and require to people to be based in the UK , Germany or Ireland for this position**Great benefits:💰 £45,000-75,000 / €54,000-90,000💻 Tech setup of your choice (MacBook Pro or equivalent, monitors, etc.)📚 £/€800 annual learning budget, plus two hours per week as ‘Focus Fridays’.🤸 Flexible work – choose a working setup that works for you, our only ask is to see you once a quarter in our UK HQ and you need to be based in UK, Ireland or Germany✈️ 25 days holiday plus your local bank holidays🎂 Your birthday off❤️ Two half day wellbeing days🩺 Healthcare cash plan to cover the costs of day to day healthcare🧠 Employee Assistance Plan 24/7 365 support🤒 Income Protection (75%) and life assurance (4x salary)🤑 Pension scheme💳 £50 monthly allowance to spend on whatever takes your fancy, your very own Benefex card will be topped up at the start of each month!Role Overview 🤩We are hiring for a Senior Mobile QA Engineer to join our Mobile squad. We recently launched v1 of our mobile app across iOS and Android, which houses mobile versions of all of our different web products in one place. The mobile app has been well received by our customers and the squad are working quickly to build new features and replicate the functionality of our web products. Quality is a critical part of how we build products are Benefex, currently the Mobile Engineers and our Lead QA have been owning the testing for the squad, but based on the roadmap we need an expert in mobile QA to own this moving forward.We’re looking for someone who can work closely with the team and understand the complexity of multiple products in one mobile app. You’ll be tasked with defining the QA strategy for Mobile, driving automation testing and ensuring best practices are adhered to.

Responsibilities 🤘

• Design, develop and execute automated tests using Appium across different platforms (iOS and Android).
• Review defects, and new features and run tests manually if necessary
• Collaborate with multiple teams across the business. We have one mobile app and various engineering teams
• Coordinate with different teams before the releases: review and advise them on automated test results
• Participate in code reviews, ensuring adherence to best practices across the QA chapter
• Provide mentorship for QA team members who would like to learn mobile testing
• Maintain and improve comprehensive test and feature documentation
• Contribute to the overall QA strategy by suggesting and implementing process improvements, tools and technologies
• Own and coordinate regular releases

What are we looking for? 🔎

• “Senior” level engineer, both in technical output (leading more complex features/services, technical decision making, owning critical services/projects) and impact on the wider team (mentoring, knowledge sharing, raising standards)
• Passion for engineering and continuous learning
• A pragmatic approach, someone with the ability to understand the big picture (business, product and tech), factor in all considerations and choose the best way forward
• A mindset of taking ownership, identifying and solving problems, able to navigate complex challenges.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator, working effectively within and across squads to deliver
• Technical proficiency:

• Proven automation testing experience on mobile applications using Java
• Experience working with complex, multi product mobile apps across different stacks and architectures
• Proven experience with Appium or XCUITest or similar
• Experience testing both iOS and Android platforms
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Expertise in RESTful API testing
• Knowledge of tools like Postman, Charles Proxy or Proxyman
• Manual and automation experience in cloud-based mobile testing services such as Saucelabs or BrowserStack

Even if you don’t meet all of the requirements for this role, we encourage you to apply! We are looking for talented and passionate individuals who are eager to learn and grow. We also offer a variety of other roles, so please check out our to see if there is something else that might be a good fit for you.Our interview processBenefex understand the need to have a fast and efficient process, the below will all be completed in the shortest time possible.📞 Initial informal call with the Talent team⏳ Interview with Engineering Manager🧪 Technical Task💻 Technical Interview with Lead QA Engineer and 1-2 QA Engineers🤩 Final interview with VP of EngineeringWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcome and respected. We believe that diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Expected salary

Location

Southampton

Job date

Sat, 26 Oct 2024 22:53:16 GMT

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