.Senior Mobile Automation Quality Engineer (Appium)Full-timePublicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients' businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.As a Senior Mobile Automation Quality Engineer at Publicis Sapient, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of mobile applications by applying your expertise in mobile testing and automation tools. You will collaborate closely with business and development teams to define acceptance criteria and streamline the testing process through automation.Your Impact:Create and implement test plans by analyzing and reviewing project requirement documents specific to mobile applications.Participate in requirements gathering sessions with business teams to help define acceptance test criteria for mobile features.Estimate and develop automation tests for mobile applications using appropriate tools and frameworks.Design, develop, test, maintain, and execute automated test scripts across different test environments.Manually execute test cases as needed based on business requirements, ensuring traceability of test results.Work closely with the software development team to enhance testing through a deep understanding of mobile application architecture and source code, reporting and debugging issues.Configure and schedule test automation within a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline.Create automated test cases, execute tests, and report defects and overall testing status.Mentor junior team members on mobile testing best practices and automation techniques.Your Skills and Experience:Knowledge of how to configure and conduct test strategy on real devices in addition to simulator testing.In-depth knowledge of Appium architecture and Appium scripting.Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and experience working in Agile development methodologies.Excellent analytical, diagnostic, and debugging skills.Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced environment.Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively within a team.Retail domain knowledge is preferred but not mandatory.Framework implementation using Espresso and XCUIT (Nice-to-have).Openness to travel:This position requires availability to travel twice per quarter, each travel for a week to Dallas for client workshops