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.
Aristocrat Leisure Limited is an Australian gaming and technology company and one of the world's largest providers of gambling products. Listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and headquartered in Sydney, it designs and manufactures electronic gaming machines and casino-management systems, and runs sizeable online real-money gaming (Aristocrat Interactive) and mobile games (Pixel United) businesses. Founded in 1953, the group employs more than 7,000 people across over 20 locations worldwide. It is the largest gaming-machine manufacturer in Australia and among the biggest slot-machine makers globally.
