Staff Engineer QA

At Feeld, we are creating a world where everyone is more intimately connected to each other and themselves. We are building an inclusive, human-centred product and are looking for a Staff Engineer QA to join our remote team and help elevate the human experience of sexuality and relationships.

This is a hands-on technical role reporting to the Head of Platform, with influence across multiple teams and ownership of Feeld’s automation tooling and frameworks. You will be responsible for owning the direction and implementation of Feeld’s automation tooling, working to improve the quality and security of the app and supporting services.

To be right for this role, you should have extensive mobile and API automation experience and the ability to “self-serve” by building the tooling required to support your automation efforts. You should also be an experienced leader with the abilities provide mentorship and guidance to 3-6 QE team members, with the skills to continually analyse and review services, vendors and processes, ensuring strategic alignment with automation efforts.

What you will do:

• Lead an automation team to build pipelines and tooling for mobile app automation, e2e testing suites, and API testing
• Own the tooling and services supporting the QA automation, and be responsible for vendor management
• Build and maintain a toolkit for enhancing QA and developer experience. For example, creating scripts to pre-configure accounts with user state, or tooling to enable the pre-conditions for a test case
• Foster a culture of quick feedback loops, and processes to catch defects with automation earlier in the product development lifecycle
• Work with Infrastructure, Platform and Security teams to develop automated testing procedures for performance, load and security testing
• Support product/delivery teams, and key stakeholders with the metrics required to release app updates and backend deployments with confidence
• Design and architect scalable, maintainable automation frameworks for mobile apps and APIs.
• Evaluate and introduce new automation tools, frameworks, and processes to improve quality at scale.
• Mentor and guide other QA engineers, sharing best practices and raising the quality bar across the organisation.
• Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure teams to integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to performance, load, and security testing automation.
• Provide metrics and insights to help teams release app updates and backend deployments with confidence.
• Collaborate with manual QA to shift left where automation can improve efficiency and coverage.

About you:

• You have significant experience (5+ years) designing and scaling automation frameworks for mobile apps and APIs e.g postman.
• You are comfortable working hands-on with code, frameworks, and infrastructure to unblock yourself and others.
• You have experience influencing cross-functional teams and establishing testing standards.
• You know TypeScript and/or React Native.
• You are comfortable working with WebdriverIO/Appium, Mocha, and BrowserStack to build and run automated tests.
• You are proactive in identifying gaps, solving problems, and continuously improving processes.

Bonus points:

• You are experienced with Appium and BrowserStack
• You able to build backend and frontend applications from source, run locally and debug issues
• You know other modern testing frameworks or languages and can quickly adopt new tools.