Android Test Automation Engineer

Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures. Driven by a desire to explore and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations, it’s komoot’s mission to inspire great adventures, making them accessible to all. And we’re good at what we do: Google and Apple have numerous times listed us as one of their Apps of the Year!

Today, with over 27 million users and 200,000 five-star reviews, komoot is well on its way to becoming the most popular app for finding, planning, and sharing adventures worldwide.

Join our fully remote team and change the way people explore!

About the role

We’re looking for an outstanding engineer to play a key role in scaling our testing process by automating our manual test suite and enabling our development teams to release faster with confidence. You’ll also have a strong QA mindset with a clear understanding of which user flows are critical for the product. If you have a passion for building and running UI test frameworks and think you have the skills to do a great job, we’d love to hear from you.

Ready for your next adventure?

What you will do

• Build and run a UI test framework to speed up the delivery of our Android app with confidence
• Write high-performing automated UI tests for our Android app, and integrate them into our release flows
• Establish automated testing practices and coach developers and QA team members to extend their testing skills
• Advocate for testing and software quality practices in our product
• Monitor test coverage and other important QA metrics

Why you will love it

• You’ll team up with Pedro, Ion, Steven, and Willem to define and scale QA processes, enabling exceptional-quality feature delivery in fast development cycles
• You’ll take ownership of quality from day one, moving things forward, shaping the processes, and choosing the tools you need to do your best work
• You’ll work on a truly inspiring product that brings real-life value to our users and empowers them to explore more of the great outdoors
• Your expert knowledge will make you a key player in a highly motivated and talented team. You’ll feel challenged to learn and excel in your domain continuously
• You’ll improve a product that we’re pretty sure you’ll end up using for your outdoor adventures
• This is a remote role in a fully remote team. You are free to work from anywhere that lies between the time zones UTC-1 and UTC+3. A beach, the mountains, or a co-working space (covered by us)…
• You’ll travel with us (when covid restrictions allow) for team gatherings in amazing locations several times a year. You can check out this playlist to find out more about how we stay close while being remote. (http://bit.ly/39xtIrn)

You will be successful in this position if you

• Believe fast and stable automated UI tests are an important pillar for building a highly successful mobile app
• Have 2+ years of experience writing automated tests for Android
• Are an expert using Espresso and Kotlin
• Feel comfortable making changes in an Android app codebase to enable it for UI testability
• Are familiar with modern software engineering best practices such as pull requests, unit testing and continuous delivery
• Love to learn about new technologies like testing Jetpack Compose UI (Android)
• Love to understand every detail of a product and its impact on our users
• Possess excellent interpersonal and communication skills and no ego – we’re a team and have always achieved incredible results together