Automation Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a frontend Automation Engineer to join our Quality Engineering team to build and scale automated testing for our iOS and Android mobile applications. You will maintain automation frameworks, collaborate with mobile developers and product teams, and ensure our releases remain fast and dependable. This is a hands-on role where you will take ownership of automation suites while working with senior engineers on framework direction.

Responsibilities

• Adding and maintaining automated tests for our iOS and Android apps in Java using Appium.
• Run and scale automated test execution across real devices and browsers using BrowserStack.
• Integrate mobile automation into CI/CD pipelines to support fast, reliable, and frequent releases.
• Collaborate with mobile developers and QE engineers to define test strategy and identify areas for automation coverage.
• Investigate test failures, distinguishing genuine defects from flaky tests, and drive fixes to improve suite reliability.
• Maintain and improve the Appium/Java test framework and our BrowserStack test infrastructure.
• Contribute to code reviews, share automation best practice, and help raise the overall quality bar across the mobile team.
• Report on test coverage and quality metrics to stakeholders across engineering and product.
• Explore and adopt AI and agentic tooling to speed up test creation, triage failures, and improve automation coverage.

Required skills

• Automation frameworks
• Selenium
• Appium
• Java
• Object Oriented Programming
• BDD frameworks
• Cucumber
• SpecFlow
• BrowserStack
• CI/CD pipelines
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• Bitrise
• CircleCI

Nice to have

• Native mobile testing
• Mobile app architecture
• Performance testing
• Accessibility testing
• API testing
• Postman
• RestAssured

Benefits

• Performance-based Bonus
• Funded Healthcare
• 25 days holiday
• Birthday holiday
• Contributory pension scheme
• Salary sacrifice EV scheme
• Dental insurance
• Cycle to work
• Tech scheme
• Employee discount

About the Company

We are here to unite the conditioning community and provide the tools people need to reach further, go faster, and be stronger. We are a rapidly growing team of talented individuals working together to invent Gymshark’s future.