[Hiring] Senior Automation QA Engineer @scrambly

Role Description

We are looking for a strong Senior Automation QA Engineer to take full ownership of automation quality at Scrambly — a high-traffic B2C platform serving millions of users across web and mobile (iOS & Android).

• Define and drive the automation quality strategy.
• Expand mobile coverage to iOS.
• Prevent issues from reaching production.
• Challenge requirements early and identify risks before they become incidents.
• Work closely with the manual QA team and engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Ownership & Strategy
  • Take full ownership of the existing E2E automation framework (Playwright + WebdriverIO/Appium) from day one.
  • Define and drive the quality strategy across web and mobile platforms.
  • Identify coverage gaps, prioritise test work, and align quality efforts with product releases.
  • Be the voice of quality in planning — challenge requirements, surface edge cases, and push for testability.
• Mobile Automation
  • Own the Android mobile test suite (WebdriverIO + Appium + uiautomator2) — maintain, extend, and improve reliability.
  • Expand iOS automation coverage, building on work already in progress.
  • Ensure cross-platform parity across our iOS and Android apps.
• Web & API Automation
  • Maintain and extend the Playwright web test suite (Chromium + Mobile Safari).
  • Own API-level test coverage and webhook validation flows.
  • Work with real QA/Stage environments backed by PostgreSQL, Redis, and Firebase.
• CI/CD & Infrastructure
  • Own the CI/CD pipelines for automated test runs (self-hosted runners and nightly scheduling).
  • Improve test reliability, parallelisation, and reporting (Playwright HTML + Allure).
  • Collaborate with DevOps on environment stability and infrastructure access.
• Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to embed quality early in the development cycle.
  • Translate product requirements into robust test coverage with a clear risk focus.
  • Communicate clearly about automation coverage, gaps, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA automation, with a focus on mobile automation.
• Strong hands-on experience with Appium (Android).
• Proven experience or solid exposure to iOS automation (Appium on iOS or XCUITest).
• Proficiency with Playwright or a comparable modern E2E framework.
• Comfortable with API testing, direct database interaction (PostgreSQL), and working with auth flows (Firebase or similar).
• Experience owning and maintaining GitHub Actions (or comparable) pipelines for automated test execution.
• Upper-Intermediate or higher English (B2+).

Nice to Have

• Experience testing high-traffic consumer products (millions of active users).
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (GCP).
• Experience with performance testing or load testing at scale.
• Prior experience as the sole AQA on a product; you know what it means to own quality end-to-end without a team.
• Background in fintech, gaming, or marketplace products where business logic complexity is high.

Benefits

• Full ownership of automation quality on a platform used by millions of users — your work has immediate, measurable impact.
• A mature automation codebase to inherit and evolve, not build from scratch on day one.
• A fast-moving environment where quality improvements translate directly into user experience and revenue.
• A culture of technical rigour: code reviews, early involvement in feature design, and the expectation that your voice shapes how we build.
• Full-time & fully remote position.
• 15 days of paid vacation.
• 5 days of paid days off.
• 5 days of paid sick leave.
• Maternity/Paternity leave.
• National holidays based on your country of stay.