Principal Software Engineer - QA (Automation)

As a Senior QA Engineer at Esyasoft Technologies, you safeguard the quality and reliability of the apps and platform that our clients and end-users depend on. Working within the QA & Test team and supported by the Automation & Test Lead, you own the depth and breadth of testing across mobile (iOS and Android), web and backend, extending automation, holding the release gate, and championing quality across the engineering team.

The role owns:

•       Test coverage and quality across Esyasoft's mobile, web and backend products

•       Test automation — building, extending and maintaining the automated suites

•       Release-gate discipline and defect triage

•       Quality advocacy and test ability across the wider engineering team

A. Test Strategy & Coverage

•       Design and own test plans and coverage across the products — functional, regression, integration, UI and end-to-end

•       Take a risk-based approach, focusing test effort where the user and commercial impact is greatest

•       Define clear, repeatable test cases and keep them current as the products evolve

•       Develop the automation framework and integrate tests into the CI/CD pipeline so quality checks run continuously

•       Reduce manual regression effort by automating the right things at the right level

C. Quality Assurance & Release Gating

•       Carry out exploratory and manual testing where it adds value beyond automation

•       Own release-gate discipline — clear, evidence-based go / no-go on quality

•       Lead defect triage, raising, tracking and verifying fixes to closure

•       Cover non-functional quality — performance, load, accessibility and reliability — where relevant to the release

•       Partner with DevOps and engineering on environment stability, test data and monitoring of quality in production

•       Partner with mobile, web and backend engineers and with Product to build quality in from the start, not bolt it on at the end.

•       Advocate good testing and test ability practice across the engineering team, and coach engineers on it

•       Communicate quality status and risk clearly to engineering and product stakeholders

•       Improve test tooling, processes and documentation so quality scales with the products

•       Evaluate and adopt new testing tools and approaches responsibly — proving value before adopting

Required Skills & Experience

•       A demonstrable senior-level QA / test engineering track record across web and mobile products

•       Strong test-automation experience with modern frameworks (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium; Appium / Espresso / XCUITest for mobile)

•       Solid API and integration testing experience (e.g. REST, Postman)

•       Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines

•       Strong defect analysis, root-cause investigation and clear bug reporting

•       Comfortable combining structured, risk-based testing with exploratory testing

•       Strong communication — able to explain quality risk to engineers and non-technical stakeholders

•       Performance / load testing and accessibility testing experience

•       Experience testing mapping / geolocation or payment integrations

•       Familiarity with mobile device farms and cross-device / cross-browser testing

•       Knowledge of EV charging, smart metering, mobility or energy products

•       Familiarity with Esyasoft's stack (PHP / MySQL, AWS) for environment and data setup

•       Quality-Obsessed — treats the end-user's experience as the bar, and won't wave through what isn't ready

•       Systematic — methodical and thorough — covers the edges others miss

•       Automation-Minded — automates the repeatable so human effort goes where it counts

•       Clear Communicator — reports quality and risk plainly, and pushes back without drama

As Esyasoft evolves, your specific responsibilities will be required to adapt to meet new challenges. We operate with a 'Responding to What is Ahead' mindset; therefore, this job description serves as a starting point rather than a fixed destination, and you will be expected to adjust in line with business needs as and when required.