QA Automation with React Native || Remote (Central Time Zone)

QA Role Overview Mobile (Expo / React Native) Role Goal
Ensure high-quality, reliable mobile applications built with React Native + Expo, using a blend of manual and automated testing across iOS and Android.

Required Skills & Knowledge Core QA Skills

• Manual testing for iOS & Android mobile apps
• Test case design, test plans, exploratory testing
• Clear bug reporting with logs, screenshots, repro steps
• Agile/Scrum experience
• Strong collaboration with developers & PMs

React Native / Expo Specific

• Understanding of:
• Expo managed vs bare workflow
• React Native architecture at a high level
• Testing:
• Navigation (React Navigation)
• State-related issues (Context/Redux awareness)
• Expo APIs:
• Camera
• Media Library
• Location
• Push Notifications
• Permissions
• Platform differences:
• iOS vs Android UI/UX
• Permission handling
• App lifecycle (background/foreground/kill)

Devices & Debugging Tools

• Real devices + simulators/emulators
• Expo Dev Tools
• Chrome DevTools / Flipper (debug awareness)
• Log analysis (Android Logcat / iOS console basics)

QA Automation Skills (Added) Automation Foundations

• Understanding of test automation principles:
• What to automate vs not
• Smoke vs regression vs E2E
• Experience writing maintainable, reusable tests

Mobile Automation Tools Preferred / Common

• Detox E2E testing for React Native
• Appium Cross-platform mobile automation
• Jest Unit & component testing
• React Native Testing Library (awareness)

Nice to Have

• CI integration (GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, Bitbucket)
• Running automated tests on simulators/emulators
• Basic test reporting & failure analysis

API & Integration Testing

• API testing using Postman
• Validating API responses used by mobile flows
• Mocking API failures & edge cases

Key Testing Areas (Manual + Automated) Functional

• Navigation & routing
• Form validation
• API success/failure handling
• State persistence after app restart

Automation-Ready Scenarios

• Login / authentication
• Critical user journeys
• Regression for builds & releases
• Smoke tests for CI

Platform-Specific

• Permission flows
• Push notifications
• Deep linking
• OTA updates (Expo Updates)