Job Title: Test Automation Developer (Mobile Tester)

Location: Fully Remote (Ohio-based preferred)

Contract Duration: February 3, 2025 – August 31, 2025

Pay Range: $52-$60/hour (depending on experience)

About the Role:

Join a dynamic IT team driving innovation and delivering seamless commerce solutions for a leading retail company! We’re seeking a skilled Test Automation Developer to help enhance testing coverage and automate regression suites as part of critical upcoming releases. This role focuses on writing automated tests and leveraging established frameworks to ensure product quality and performance for native mobile commerce and omnichannel integrations.

While the framework is already in place, experience building frameworks is a bonus. This is a great opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge initiatives, including mobile app development, API integrations, and e-commerce platforms, in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Write and execute robust, scalable, and maintainable automated test scripts for existing frameworks.
• Automate various types of testing, including UI , API , integration , and performance testing .
• Enhance testing coverage for regression suites and ensure holistic test suites are implemented to support upcoming releases.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including development, QA, product, and vendor teams, to ensure smooth execution of test cycles.
• Contribute to integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and provide quality metrics.
• Support and optimize existing automation frameworks with innovative solutions.

Qualifications:

• Experience:
• 3–4+ years in test automation and frameworks.
• 1–2 years of hands-on Python experience (or experience transitioning from Ruby, Java, or Groovy to Python).
• Must-Have Skills:
• Programming language: Python .
• Automation framework: Pytest (primarily for API automation testing).
• API testing module: Python Requests .
• Strong understanding of cloud-based testing environments (Azure preferred; AWS also acceptable).

Preferred Skills (Nice to Haves):

• Familiarity with tools such as Datadog , Azure APIM , and Kubernetes (not required, but beneficial).
• Experience with modern testing practices like BDD , POM , and test parallelization.

Purpose of the Role:

• Support the team by automating regression suites and contributing to critical releases in March and August 2025.
• Collaborate with the team to test 8–10 services (including graph-based services).
• Build on established frameworks and holistic test suites to support seamless releases.
• Contribute to native mobile commerce projects, currently transitioning out of the pilot phase.

Additional Details:

• Work Hours: 40 hours/week (flexible within standard business hours).
• Preferred Timezones: EST (preferred) or CST. PST is acceptable if candidates are willing to start early mornings (8:30 AM EST meetings).
• Location: Fully remote. Local candidates in Ohio or nearby regions are a bonus.
• Contract Timeline: Native mobile commerce testing to conclude by the end of August 2025, with scope for extension or transition to other projects for exceptional candidates.

Russell Tobin / Pride Global offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors.