Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

1. Quality & Delivery Infrastructure

• Execute and maintain mobile CI/CD pipelines (managing PR builds, caching strategies, and our in-house macOS device farm).

• Implement automated app quality guardrails in CI that enforce performance, stability, and screen availability thresholds before code is merged.

• Support the automation of our release infrastructure, completing tasks and iterations within the standard 1-day to 3-month planning cycles.

2. Quality Insights & Tooling

• Contribute to the team's objectives by building integrations that link crash logs and test results to observability dashboards.

• Automate the collection of incident data across mobile releases to provide clear visibility on regressions.

3. Cross-Stack Quality Guardrails

• Implement API/Contract testing (e.g., Postman) within the CI pipeline to proactively block backend changes that break mobile apps.

• Build automated mock servers and test data generation scripts to stabilize E2E UI testing.

4. Code Review & Developer Automation

• Write and maintain automated linting rules and static analysis checks to catch architectural violations early.

• Implement scripts and bots that reduce manual code review time for product squads.

 

Requirements

• Experience: 1 to 3 years of experience as a Software Engineer, SDET, or Platform/DevOps Engineer, aligning with talabat's IC2 career progression timeframes.

• Coding Skills: Strong programming ability in at least one language (TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, or Kotlin). You must be able to write clean, maintainable production code.

• CI/CD & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience configuring CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Bitrise, Jenkins, etc.) and writing shell scripts (Bash).

• Testing Frameworks: Experience building or contributing to automated testing frameworks (Maestro, Appium, XCUITest, Espresso).

• System Thinking: A solid understanding of mobile application architecture and how frontend apps interact with backend services.

• Mindset: High empathy for developer experience (DevX). You view the product engineers as your primary customers.