Test Automation Specialist (Playwright & Appium)

Location: This role is 100% remote and open to those who reside in Latin America

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 Test Automation Specialist who will be a strong partner to our customers and deliver best practices with Software QA. 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’ll 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 that you can’t find anywhere else - you will be dealing with multiple projects and partnering with an excellent 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.
• You will shape the current and future Testlio approach to Automated Testing and work closely with our platform team to imagine and deliver solutions.
• Despite the distances, you’ll love our collaborative global culture and contribute to making Testlio a great workplace!

Why would you love to be 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 help our customers create well-built digital experiences for their users, create opportunities for Testlio's freelance network, and support social impact programs like Ignite.
• Great culture: Testlio’s is female-founded, and 46% of the population is women. Our purpose, vision, and values help drive positive mindsets and behaviors. People like working with each other and love the company's global scale. 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 location. In addition to the paid time off, 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 Do You Need to Succeed?

• 3-5 years of experience working with web and mobile automation frameworks. 
• Experience with Appium (Native) and Playwright.
• Knowledge of Python and/or Javascript/Typescript. 
• Hands-on experience in testing large codebases with multiple subsystems.
• Knowledge of how automation can be leveraged for different quality gates.
• Previous experience in collaborating with different stakeholders and external clients, as well as developing and maintaining client relationships.
• Experience implementing test automation into CI/CD pipelines is required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English. 
• Be willing to learn fast and continuously expand your knowledge.
• Team player, socially open-minded, empathetic, and considerate of cultural differences.

What You’ll Be Doing?

• Act as a Test Automation Specialist in understanding and simplifying the implementations to the QE test automation suite and implementing it into CI/CD pipeline.
• Assist the other QA/TA team members deployed on the client side in making test automation a success.
• Adhere to Testlio’s defined scripting governance process.
• Prepare automation roadmaps and status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing the data.
• Use your extensive automation experience to challenge the status quo and recommend improvements to frameworks and processes.
• Partner with clients' internal teams to drive strategic Automated Testing solutions.

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’d like you to meet with multiple people from our organization to give you an idea of who you would be working with, what your role expectations are, etc. Our interview process can take about 3 to 4 weeks to complete. 

• Application
• Recruiter interview
• TestGorilla assessment
• Live Technical Skills Demonstration
• Reference checks
• ~3 Hiring Manager and Stakeholder interviews
• 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.