Senior Mobile QA Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Mobile QA Engineer to take ownership of quality across our mobile application portfolio. This role is critical in ensuring our products are reliable, scalable, and deliver exceptional user experiences across iOS and Android.

You will work as part of a cross-functional product team, contributing to test strategy, automation architecture, and quality leadership. This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise in test automation, a strong understanding of agile delivery, and a proactive approach to improving engineering quality practices.

You will also play a key role in driving a quality-first culture, mentoring engineers, and influencing how quality is embedded across the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Leadership & Strategy

• Own and evolve the mobile testing strategy, ensuring alignment with engineering and product goals.
• Champion shift-left testing practices, embedding quality early in the development lifecycle.
• Define and implement scalable test automation approaches across mobile platforms.
• Act as a quality advocate, influencing standards, tooling, and best practices.

Test Automation & Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain robust automation frameworks for mobile (iOS & Android).
• Develop and execute end-to-end, integration, and regression test suites.
• Continuously improve test coverage, execution speed, and reliability.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Delivery & Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Design to refine requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Participate in all Agile ceremonies, providing clear visibility of quality risks and progress.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure testability, observability, and quality-by-design.

Defect Management & Production Support

• Identify, document, and manage defects through to resolution.
• Analyse root causes and drive improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Support production releases and assist with investigation of live incidents.

Mentorship & Continuous Improvement

• Mentor and support engineers in QA practices and automation.
• Raise the bar for quality through coaching, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Continuously evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and methodologies.

Required Experience

• Proven experience testing complex mobile applications at scale.
• Strong background in test automation engineering, including framework design.
• Experience in Agile environments with CI/CD integration.
• Hands-on experience with both manual and automated testing approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to influence teams and drive improvements in quality.

Technical Skills

Essential

• Mobile testing experience on iOS and Android platforms/
• Strong expertise in automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, or similar)/
• Experience with API testing and service-layer validation/
• Solid understanding of TDD/BDD principles/
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g., Azure DevOps).

Desirable

• Experience with JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub Actions).
• Experience with cross-browser and device testing platforms (e.g., BrowserStack).
• Familiarity with API tools such as Postman or SoapUI.
• Understanding of cloud platforms (e.g., Azure).
• Exposure to mobile development technologies (e.g., Kotlin, Swift, Jetpack Compose, XCUITest).
• SQL and data validation experience.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong ownership mindset with a focus on outcomes, not just execution.
• Passion for quality and continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance hands-on delivery with strategic thinking.
• A proactive, curious, and problem-solving attitude.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

Disability Confident Leader

As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we’ll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process.

If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email us. This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.

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