Appium Tester

Job Description:

This job description is broadly suitable for most feature teams and can be adapted with minimal changes.

The (E.g. Save the Change) feature team delivers customer-facing capabilities across mobile apps (iOS & Android), desktop, and mobile web for Lloyds Banking Group brands. As an E grade Quality Engineer, you will own the quality strategy for PayDay, ensuring robust, observable, and customer-centric solutions across channels. You’ll combine risk-based testing with maintainable automation and strong observability to prevent and detect issues early.

Key Responsibilities

Own endtoend quality across web and mobile journeys (discovery release postrelease).

Design test strategies blending exploratory testing with automation for UI and APIs.

Build and maintain automation:

Web UI: Playwright (preferred), or Cypress/Selenium.

Mobile UI: Appium (iOS/Android; native & hybrid/WebView).

API: Postman/Newman or equivalent; derive scenarios from OpenAPI/Swagger.

Validate featureflagged behaviours and safe rollout/rollback paths.

Interrogate logs and telemetry (Splunk, Dynatrace) to identify root causes, not just symptoms.

Contribute to 3 Amigos and story shaping; create clear, testable acceptance criteria.

Integrate automation into CI/CD with meaningful quality gates (e.g., UrbanCode Deploy).

Proactively prepare for biweekly sprints: ensure test data readiness, environment checks, and automation updates ahead of ceremonies.

Identify gaps in tools, process, or coverage and recommend innovative solutions.

Essential Skills

Web automation: Playwright (preferred), or Cypress/Selenium.

Mobile automation: Appium (iOS/Android; native & hybrid/WebView).

API testing: Postman/Newman or similar; comfortable reading OpenAPI/Swagger.

Observability & log analysis: Splunk and/or Dynatrace for triage and RCA.

Git fundamentals: branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews, resolving merge conflicts.

CI/CD integration: wiring tests into pipelines; enforcing quality gates.

Feature flags / progressive delivery: validating toggled behaviours across environments.

Strong communication: articulate risks, tradeoffs, and fixes with engineers and product.

Desirable Skills

Contractfirst/contracttesting approaches; negative/error path testing.

Familiarity with GCPhosted services and modernised API ecosystems.

Testing deep links and WebView native migrations.

Experience across multibrand journeys and multiple channels.

Ways of Working

Agile feature team with progressive delivery behind flags.

3 Amigos discovery, pairing, and lean test design for fast feedback.

Proactive sprint readiness (data, environments, automation currency) and continuous improvement mindset.

Close collaboration with product, design, engineering, and operations.

Success Measures

Reliable automation signal at PR and environment levels (fast, stable, meaningful).

Reduced escaped defects and shorter MTTR through evidencebased RCA.

Clear acceptance criteria and fewer late surprises from discovery to release.

Safe, observable releases with flag coverage and postdeploy checks.

Tech Stack & Tools

Automation: Playwright (preferred), Cypress, Selenium; Appium; Postman/Newman

Observability: Splunk, Dynatrace

APIs: OpenAPI/Swagger; error mappings and negative paths

CI/CD & SCM: Git; quality gates; UrbanCode Deploy (where applicable)

Practices: Feature flags, riskbased testing, contract testing, 3 Amigos