Specialist, Mobile QA Automation Engineer

$79,800 - $122,300/Yr

Charles Schwab - Austin, TX

Full-time - Entry Level

Austin, TX

1,001-5,000 employees

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Mobile QA Automation Engineer at Charles Schwab is responsible for developing and maintaining mobile automation frameworks for Retail and Retirement applications. This role emphasizes innovative problem-solving and collaboration across teams to enhance the quality assurance process in mobile application development.

Responsibilities

• Design robust Automation test framework from scratch with Espresso and/or XCUI for Mobile Retail and Retirement applications.
• Ensure automation is constantly running, analyzing, and promptly reporting on failures.
• Work with leadership to research, investigate, implement, and train other QA Testing Resources in Test-Driven Development and Testing Automation using Espresso/XCUI.
• Plan, develop, and debug native performance test scripts.
• Work cross-organizationally to define environment requirements and identify Automation-related tools.
• Develop and execute best Automation processes and practices.
• Foster end-to-end testing across multiple applications.
• Partner with geographically distributed teams to plan future QA tooling and technology decisions.
• Liaise with product teams, Product Owners, and Scrum Masters to integrate project plans, testing schedules, and metrics reporting.

Requirements

• 1+ years in Mobile Application Development
• 1+ years of experience in building and maintaining test automation frameworks.
• 1+ years of developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts.
• 1+ years of experience with Mobile Development on iOS and/or Android devices.
• 1+ years of hands-on coding experience with Java, Kotlin, SWIFT, or other object-oriented programming languages.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with XCUI and/or Espresso.
• Working knowledge of industry-standard tools for logging bugs and managing test cases (e.g., JIRA/MTM, Zephyr/HPQ).
• Understanding of CI/CD practices and Lean DevOps methodologies.
• Proven ability to successfully balance and deliver multiple geographically distributed QA projects with concurrent releases.
• Financial/Trading services industry experience.

Benefits

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Health insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Sabbatical after every 5 years of service
• Tuition reimbursement