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Senior Android Automation Engineer, Quality Engineering
Location
Brazil
Posted
85 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Android Automation Engineer, Quality Engineering
Airbnb
• Be a leader in Airbnb leveraging AI to redefine and accelerate Quality Engineering • As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will help us meet this challenge by building and maintaining automation coverage for features and releases. You will work directly with the product engineering team to develop and maintain our test tools, write and test product code, participate in design reviews to architect testable systems, and guide designs and code to enhance modularity and testability. • You are eager to understand complex systems top to bottom and thrive working across technologies and codebases. In addition, you excel at working through ambiguity, concept validation, and implementing best-in-class solutions. • Leverage AI and tooling to lead the implementation of a test automation strategy, covering the entire testing pyramid (unit, service, integration, and end-to-end testing) to verify feature functionality for customer use cases. • Lead building, maintaining, and effective utilization of automated tests, collaborating closely with engineering teams to ensure robust test coverage for features and releases, and actively participating in the continuous improvement of testing processes. • Contribute to improving existing automation frameworks to support new functionalities and optimize quality and efficiency. • Collaborate with CI/CD team to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring thorough test coverage at every stage of development. • Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting abilities, isolate issues, and verify bug fixes. Debug issues found during testing and after release. • Be a player of our high-performance team to ensure code quality, commitment to craft and operational excellence • Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and other QE teams, in a fast-paced environment with short release cycles.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience in software testing and automation
- Demonstrable knowledge in at least one programming language (e.g., Kotlin, Java) and strong scripting skills
- Strong knowledge of test automation methodologies, tools, and frameworks
- Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks (e.g., Espresso)
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Buildkite, Spinnaker, Jenkins) and version control systems (Git)
- Excellent communication skills towards facilitating interactions with cross-functional teams
- Expertise developing solutions to ambiguous problems, and integrations across multiple teams with significant impact
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science/engineering or equivalent
- Fluency in English (reading, writing, and speaking) is essential.
Benefits
- Disability inclusive application and interview process
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