The mobile team at Lonely Planet is the caretaker ofGuides, the ultimate companion for travelers on the ground in a new destination, andTrips, a community of travelers sharing their adventures with each other and the world.
As a team, we rise to the challenge of bringing over 40 years of authored travel content to life on mobile devices in a way that is engaging for our community and relevant for individual travelers around the globe.
We’re committed to delivering apps of exemplary quality that are fast & reliable across a broad range of devices. We are seeking aMobile QA Engineerto join our team and lead the QA process for our products on both Android & iOS.Although the team has some QA processes in place, we have never had a dedicated QA resource, so this is an opportunity for a qualified candidate to substantially define and own the QA process for apps used by millions of customers each year.
We’re seeking candidates based in Nashville, TN for this role but will consider extraordinary candidates based in other US cities.
All candidates must be:
An expert in the field of native mobile QA, with a portfolio of popular, active applications that you’ve helped to maintain
Professionally fluent in English
Proficient at clear, concise written communication
Experienced with working on a remote team
Highly self-motivated
Obsessively detail-oriented
Daily responsibilities will vary, but will include:
Working with the team to develop standards for measuring product quality and readiness to release
Owning the QA workflow from story conception to software deployment
Creating, maintaining, and executing automated and manual test cases that implement our standards
Detecting, isolating, reproducing, documenting, and prioritizing defects
Reporting those defects to the team & verifying fixes
Scheduling & executing routine regression testing prior to releases
Testing new features and enhancements across various devices and scenarios
Bonus if familiar with:
Popular native mobile automation and testing technologies, including Espresso and UI Automator for Android, and XCUITest and UIAutomation for iOS
CI tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, etc
Firebase Test Lab
What’s in it for you?
This is an exceptional opportunity to work for a growing team in a globally loved brand in a truly global company, with offices in the UK, US, Australia, Ireland, China & India. You will also receive 3 weeks of vacation, a competitive salary based on your experience and region, 401K and great medical coverage.
I’m In!
Please ensure you submit a cover letter detailing your salary expectations along with your CV telling us why you’d like to join our team.
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