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Principal Quality Automation Engineer, Native Mobile

London

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Seniority
Lead / management
Country
GB
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
27 Oct 2026

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the posting

Join us as a Principal Quality Automation Engineer for Native Mobile

  • This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
  • With your software development background, you’ll be working with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap
  • You’ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents and leadership skills

What you'll do

As a Principal Quality Automation Engineer for Native Mobile, you’ll be creating great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.

Leveraging your software engineering and quality engineering expertise, you'll work closely with architects and engineering teams to define testability standards, quality architectures and automation strategies aligned to the organisation’s target architecture and delivery roadmap. You'll lead from the front, combining deep hands‑on technical capability with principal level technical leadership and influence across complex mobile and front‑end environments.

You’ll also be:

  • Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
  • Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
  • Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
  • Influencing the development of strategies and architecture at domain and enterprise levels, identifying transformational opportunities for the businesses and technology areas
  • Leading the more significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, coordinating multiple feature teams, making sure that their technical journeys support realisation of the targets, and deliver the values of the relevant metrics published to our investors

The skills you'll need

You'll bring significant experience in quality automation and test engineering, with expert‑level, hands-on mobile automation capability across iOS and Android native applications. You'll have a proven track record of engineering scalable automation solutions and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, enabling fast and reliable delivery while maintaining customer experience and quality.

We're also looking for:

  • Hands-on expertise in native iOS and Android automation, with strong knowledge of mobile automation frameworks, tooling and the associated native technology ecosystems
  • Proven experience in designing, building and evolving scalable mobile automation frameworks and platforms
  • Demonstrable experience integrating mobile automation into CI/CD pipelines, including efficient execution, parallelisation, reporting, diagnostics and continuous quality feedback
  • Strong experience solving complex mobile testing challenges, including device and OS fragmentation, test isolation, test data and environment management, reliability and flakiness, together with advanced mocking and stubbing techniques
  • Experience in testing and understanding APIs and distributed system integrations, with the ability to design for testability across client, service and backend boundaries
  • The ability to translate complex product, customer and technical requirements into robust quality engineering strategies
  • Proven technical leadership across multiple engineering teams

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

29/10/2026

Ways of Working:Hybrid

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