QE Lead (Espresso & Xcode)

Location: This position is open to those who reside in the United States or Canada and are willing to work remotely. Alignment with the 10:00 a.m.—7:00 p.m. Central schedule is required. 

About the job 

Testlio is a leading quality management company. Its unique approach combines humans and machines to help digital innovators assure quality products at scale. On 600K+ real devices. In 100+ languages. With 800+ payment methods. The company is 100% remote, with people in 150+ countries. It is female-founded; 46% of full-time people are women. Clients include Amazon, athenahealth, Match Group, Microsoft, the NBA, Netflix, PayPal, SAP, Uber, Wayfair, and many more. To learn more, visit www.testlio.com.

We are hiring a QE Lead who will be a strong partner to our customers and deliver best practices with Software QA. This role is crucial in transforming our automation practices and demonstrating value to clients. Internally, you will also be responsible for communicating and contributing to the continuous development of the Quality Engineering Center of Excellence best practices, go-to-market approach, and overall client engagement best practices.

Why you will love this job?

• An opportunity to significantly impact Testlio’s continued growth as a contributor to the Quality Engineering Center of Excellence.
  With a wide variety of customers in Testlio’s portfolio, you will be able to go through situations you can’t find anywhere else – you will be dealing with multiple projects and partnering with a wonderful team to build amazing app experiences for the most exciting companies in the world!
• Chance to work alongside and learn from strongly motivated and experienced co-workers from diverse backgrounds and locations while enjoying the flexibility of a distributed team.

Why you will love being a part of Testlio?

• A true sense of belonging: the TestLion Pride is a global community of like-minded people who live Testlio’s six values every day.
• Enable human possibilities: your work at Testlio has a larger purpose. As a TestLion, you will not only help our customers create well-built digital experiences for their users, but also create opportunities for Testlio's freelance network, and support social impact programs like Ignite.
• Great culture: Testlio’s is female-founded and is 46% women. Our purpose, vision and values help drive positive mindsets and behaviors. People like working with each other and love the global scale of the company. We move fast and empower people on the frontlines to make decisions and own initiatives.
• Investment in you: Testlio is a global company and we’ve created a few benefits that are available regardless of your location. In addition to the paid time off mentioned above, you can reimburse up to $300/yr for learning, you will receive stock options and an equipment policy with Testlio contributing to the bulk of the cost with regular equipment update intervals.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Lead a small team to refactor the existing Espresso and XCUITest automation suite.
• Integrate automation into DevOps pipelines
• Conduct code reviews and mentor team members
• Create and execute automation roadmaps
• Collaborate with clients to drive strategic automated testing solutions
• Educate and influence team members on automation best practices
• Contribute to the Quality Engineering Center of Excellence
• While being a leadership role, you will be expected to contribute hands-on with script development and lead your team by example

What You Need to Succeed

• 5+ years of test automation experience
• 3+ years leading Test Automation tea
• 3+ Mobile testing experience with Espresso and Xcode automation frameworks
• API testing experience using Postman
• Strong understanding of CI/CD integration for test automation
• Hands-on experience in testing large codebases with multiple subsystems
• Knowledge capturing and replying packages using tools such as Charles Proxy
• Track record of improving and maintaining legacy automation suites
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Ability to work with diverse frameworks and programming languages
• Outstanding communication skills in English
• Experience working with external clients
• Adaptable and quick learner
• Strong mentor and teacher
• Influential communicator
• Team player with cross-cultural sensitivity

What is the Candidate Consideration Process

We do our best to bring on individuals who will be excited about their role and have the potential for a great future with Testlio. Since we are 100% distributed, we give you the chance to meet with multiple people throughout the organization to give you an idea of who you would be working with, and what the role expectations will be. Our interview process can take about 3 to 4 weeks to complete. 

• Recruiter interview 
• TestGorilla assessment
• Live Technical Skills Demonstration
• Reference checks
• ~ 3 Hiring Manager and Stakeholder interview
• Offer & Background check

Diversity and Inclusion

Testlio is an equal-opportunity employer deeply committed to creating an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and identities. We are female-founded and 46% of our team identifies as women. See the DEI section of our website for more information.