Mobile Engineer

Role - Mobile SDET

Location - Mumbai

Collinson is a global loyalty and benefits company.

We use our expertise and products to craft customer experiences which enable some of the worlds best known brands to acquire, engage and retain the most demanding and choice-rich customers. In particular, our unique expertise and insight into high earning, frequent travellers allows us to create products and solutions for our clients that inspire greater customer engagement to drive more profitable relationships, enrich their travel experiences, protect what matters and assist in in times of need.

While specialising in Financial Services, Travel and Retail, we also support clients in multiple sectors. We have worked with over 90 airlines, 20 hotel groups and more than 600 financial institutions and banks, with clients including Accor Hotels, Air France KLM, American Express, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Diners Club, Mandarin Oriental, Mastercard, Radisson Hotel Group, Sephora, Visa and Vhi.

We take our 30 years experience working with these kinds of household names in over 170 countries, and help our clients to deliver the smarter experiences it takes to differentiate their propositions, and help them win deeper devotion with their customers.

Collinson is a privately-owned entrepreneurial business with 2,000 passionate people working in 20 locations worldwide. Our solutions include Priority Pass, the worlds best known airport experiences programme, while we are also the trusted partner behind many of the leading financial services, airline and hotel brands reward programmes and loyalty initiatives.

Purpose of the job

Were looking for a SDET whos passionate about quality; not just as a phase, but as a core part of how great software gets built. In this role, youll help shape what great looks like for our engineering teams, including setting test standards, supporting engineers and making sure quality is everyones responsibility. This role requires strong software development skills, deep understanding of distributed systems, and the ability to influence quality across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Youll be embedded in a collaborative environment where software is shipped fast, iteratively, and often. Your work will focus on making sure things dont just work but work well together. Youll bring clarity, structure and confidence to the way we test by balancing automation with human insight and keeping the end-user in mind.

You would drive the automated testing efforts covering contract testing, smoke testing, regression testing, cross-device compatibility testing, end-to-end testing ensuring that we deliver quality and performance of mobile applications through manual and automated testing. Youll bring your

considerable knowledge of test automation to help us build new products that are reliable, secure, performant, and resilient.

If youre curious, love asking the awkward questions, and want to support software engineers build and iterate quickly, youll thrive here.

Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain test automation frameworks from scratch or extend existing ones for mobile applications

Define and uphold the standards for test quality, ensuring consistency and confidence in our releases.

Write high quality, maintainable integration and end-to-end tests that follows production engineering standards.

Build reusable test utilities, mocks, and simulators.

Contribute to and help evolve the overall test strategy for one or more products or services

Partner with engineers, product managers, and delivery leads to embed quality thinking from day one, and not as an after-thought.

Design and oversee test strategies that combine automation, exploratory testing, and regression coverage.

Drive the implementation and evolution of automated testing frameworks, ensuring integration into our CI/CD pipelines.

Own the structure and health of test suites and regression packs, helping teams keep them lean, relevant, and valuable.

Actively test front-end, back-end, API, and distributed microservices using tools like Playwright, Cypress, Postman, RestAssured and other modern frameworks.

Perform and organise performance testing of mobile apps on various devices and platforms (iOS, Android, etc.).

Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure cross-squad functionality and integration is properly tested.

Get involved in the testing cycle, helping to investigate issues, write tests, support on manual QA, and signing-off changes.

Investigate defects and production issues; ensure fixes are validated through automation

Preferred

Computer Science or Information Technology degree, Diploma or similar

CSTAE or ASTQB ISTQB Advanced Certification

Certified Automation Tester (i.e. Cypress, Playwright)

Familiarity with pipeline and event-driven systems (Kafka, AWS EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, queues, streams, Snaplogic)

Test Management: Jira, Xray` Non Negotiable

4+ years experience in Test Automation on mobile applications

Strong hands-on experience in building and maintaining test automation frameworks and API testing tools, not just executing them

Confident writing automated tests in Javascript/Typescript using Selenium, Charles proxy, Maestro, etc.

Expertise in Designing and Executing End-to-End Test Strategies that aligns with Agile delivery

Automation: Appium, Espresso, XCUITest, UIAutomator, Maestro

Debugging: Xcode, Android Studio

Device Clouds: TestFlight, Amazon Device Farm

Solid experience embedding quality early in the SDLC by working closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Principal Engineers and Delivery Managers

Experience working in agile continuous delivery teams, including daily coordination with cross-functional stakeholders to evaluate, prioritize, and drive resolution of defects based on reproducibility, business impact, and release scope