Mobile Automation Test Lead

Role Overview: You will be responsible for designing and developing end-to-end automated test frameworks for mobile (React Native) and web applications. Your role will involve defining and implementing the automation test strategy, standards, and best practices. Collaboration with developers and project managers to understand requirements and ensure high test coverage is crucial. In addition, you will automate functional, regression, smoke, and sanity test suites, as well as maintain and enhance the test automation infrastructure for scalability and performance. Reviewing manual test cases to identify candidates for automation is also a part of your responsibilities. Key Responsibilities: - Design and develop end-to-end automated test frameworks for mobile (React Native) and web applications - Define and implement the automation test strategy, standards, and best practices - Collaborate with developers and project managers to ensure high test coverage - Automate functional, regression, smoke, and sanity test suites - Maintain and enhance the test automation infrastructure for scalability and performance - Review manual test cases to identify candidates for automation - Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior QA/test engineers - Conduct code reviews of test automation scripts written by team members - Work with CI/CD pipelines to integrate automated tests in the build-release process - Own the test automation, test data management, and reporting of test results to stakeholders Qualifications Required: - Expertise in Mobile (React Native) testing with Appium (must-have) and Espresso/Detox (either one) - Proficiency in Selenium WebDriver (must-have) for web testing, or Playwright/Cypress (either one) - Familiarity with test frameworks such as TestNG and JUnit (if using Appium with Java) or Mocha, Jest (if using Detox or Cypress) - Experience with CI/CD integration tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, or Bitrise - Proficiency in version control using Git,