QA Automation Engineer (Mobile/Android)

Point Wild helps customers monitor, manage, and protect against the risks associated with their identities and personal information in a digital world. Backed by WndrCo, Warburg Pincus and General Catalyst, Point Wild is dedicated to creating the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading cybersecurity solutions. Our vision is to become THE go-to resource for every cyber protection need individuals may face - today and in the future. Join us for the ride! About the Role: We’re looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer (Mobile/Android) to take the lead in ensuring our global security products meet the highest bars of reliability. In this role, you won’t just run tests; you’ll architect and scale automation solutions for our VPN portfolio (HotspotShield, Betternet) and our flagship antivirus (UltraAV). We are agile, work quickly, and focus on outcomes. We trust our team to build the best solution to help us scale for the future. Day to Day: Architect and evolve our Android automation framework (Espresso/Kakao-Cup) to support a growing portfolio of security products. Design sophisticated testing strategies for VPN-specific challenges, including network-dependent flows and testing under unstable or switching connection states. Work closely with developers and other QAs to troubleshoot and resolve issues, offering detailed bug reports. Uphold QA best practices and contribute to driving the QA strategy. Continuously explore new testing tools and methodologies to enhance the QA process. What you bring to the table: At least 3 years of experience in automating UI tests for Android apps written in Kotlin Strong hands-on expertise with Espresso and Kakao-Cup, with the ability to test screens built in both Jetpack Compose and classic XML. Experience with Robolectric and Mockito for test infrastructure and mocking dependencies. You’re comfortable building and maintaining pipelines in CircleCI and using Bash/sh scripting for automation and result processing. Experience sharding and parallelizing tests using Flank, and configuring device matrices within Firebase Test Lab or similar emulators. An understanding of the specific challenges of testing VPN apps, such as network-dependent flows and handling connection-state flakiness. At least upper-intermediate level of spoken and written English It would be great if you also had: Experience maintaining UI test suites across multiple apps in both mono- and multi-repo setups. High level of comfort with ADB, log analysis, and a working understanding of the Android build process via Gradle (Kotlin DSL). Experience testing A/B frameworks, including covering feature-flagged flows and variant-dependent UI. Familiarity with testing Google Play Billing integrations (subscriptions, purchase flows, and edge cases). Why Join Us? Professional Growth: Enhance your skills by collaborating closely with talented engineers and architects. Meaningful Impact: Help create software that protects millions of users from cybersecurity threats. Supportive Environment: Join a team dedicated to innovation, mentorship, and continuous learning. As part of Point Wild, you will: Solve real customer problems. Point Wild’s point solutions allow consumers to address their immediate cyber protection needs. Our mandate is to continuously anticipate our customers’ evolving digital security needs to create best-in-class solutions aimed at keeping them safe. See your impact. We are a scrappy, nimble organization where individual contributions are needed and valued. You will see your impact every day. Accelerate your career. As we expand, you will have the opportunity to learn new technologies, products, and markets in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment. Most importantly, you’ll get to work with other talented people at a company where people matter. If you want to put your fingerprint on an organization and leapfrog your growth, this is the place for you. In keeping with our beliefs and goals, no employee or applicant will face discrimination or harassment based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Above and beyond discrimination or harassment based on “protected categories,” Point Wild is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Point Wild. Important privacy information for United States based job applicants can be found here. Apply To This Job