QA Team Leader (Mobile and Automation)

Aristocrat empowers customers with advanced platforms, top games, and full services globally. We are seeking a high-reaching QA Team Leader (Mobile and Automation). This role is crucial in driving our native mobile app QA strategy, ensuring detailed execution and delivery of high-quality products. Shape mobile QA at Aristocrat by using automation frameworks and collaborating with complementary teams.

• Lead the end-to-end QA strategy for native mobile apps (iOS and Android), covering both manual and automated testing.
• Define and implement a long-term automation architecture and roadmap using Appium, evolving it into a robust, production-ready framework.
• Coordinate all QA activities for multiple customers, ensuring coverage, consistency, and high-quality delivery.
• Set up and track quality metrics, test coverage data, and release-readiness checkpoints.
• Design and review functional, regression, and exploratory tests.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer success teams to ensure robust testing for new features, integrations, and performance.
• Recruit, mentor, and handle QA engineers, with a mix of hands-on support and team enablement.
• Coordinate manual and automation efforts, ensuring coverage and alignment for each release.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and proactively chip in to planning and quality reviews.

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in mobile app testing (native iOS and Android) – Required.
• Confirmed experience building and scaling mobile automation frameworks from the ground up – Required.
• Strong experience with Appium for mobile automation – Required.
• Confirmed experience in automation testing of native mobile apps – Required.
• Strong proficiency in Java – Required.
• Strong understanding of Client/Server applications – Required.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills – Required.
• Experience using agentic AI to create, maintain, and fix automated tests, including SpecFlow scenarios, regression coverage, flaky test analysis, and failure investigation.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, able to effectively work with multi-functional teams and engage both technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Experience in a multi-customer / multi-tenant product or B2B environment.
• Deep knowledge of test automation approaches and procedures, as well as overall QA practices.
• Ability to balance multiple challenging priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Good understanding of the entire software development lifecycle.
• SOLID development habits and practices.
• Proactive, diligent, with strong learning ability and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proficient in English for daily communication.