Automation Engineer

Who We Are 

HeadSpin is a global omnichannel digital experience testing platform that helps enterprises optimize application performance with its data science capabilities. With a strong infrastructure availability of real devices across 50+ locations, the HeadSpin Platform enables manual and automated app testing with a wide range of devices, including both screen and screenless devices, such as mobile phones, desktop browsers, media players, audio devices, and even automotive systems.

The Platform has an extensive on-prem and cloud-hosted device infrastructure that uses data science-driven performance and quality of experience analytics to collect over 100+ performance experience KPIs out of the box and provide performance analysis and monitoring across the engineering cycle. The Platform's advanced capabilities enable leading global enterprises to achieve an improved digital experience, faster triage, and cost efficiency.

‍About the Role

You will create scripts using Appium, and Selenium using Python/java. You will become Appium Pro certified and work with top-tier customers.  You must enjoy testing mobile UIs and automating them in both Android and iOS.

What You'll Do

• Write automation code for mobile applications
• Capture data and complete analysis on mobile applications
• Create dashboards with the data captured and provide it to the customer
• Assist customer with automation where applicable
• Understanding of iOS and Android applications and UI structure and building tooling to automate interactions
• Deep knowledge of Appium and Appium Desktop internals
• A working understanding of mobile frameworks like Espresso and XCTest
• Developing/evolving production-grade web services and agents written in Python and Tornado
• Being a member of a highly motivated team pushing all the boundaries in the mobile testing space
• Maintain automation test framework to ensure continuous quality of products
• Maintain existing testing codebases
• Collaborate with software engineers and testers to develop rigorous test cases
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
• Ensure the quality of all code and products produced by the company
• Help customers get the best value out of Headspin
• Performs other duties as required

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What You Need

• BS in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a similar field
• 0-2 years of hands-on experience in software development or SQA
• Self-motivated, creative, focused, results-oriented, problem solver
• In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Java)
• Strong skill set with MySQL or other databases. Ability to read & write SQL queries
• Good with Linux/Unix environment
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• General knowledge of Appium (mobile automation tool) or Selenium (web automation tool)
• Proficiency with automation testing tools
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities
• Android and or iOS development
• Agile/Scrum Experience
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Ability to collaborate with engineers and content creators