QA Team Leader (Mobile and Automation)

Aristocrat empowers customers with advanced platforms, top games, and full services globally.

We are seeking a high-reaching QA Team Leader (Mobile and Automation). This role is crucial in driving our native mobile app QA strategy, ensuring detailed execution and delivery of high-quality products. Shape mobile QA at Aristocrat by using automation frameworks and collaborating with complementary teams.

What You'll Do

• Lead the end-to-end QA strategy for native mobile apps (iOS and Android), covering both manual and automated testing.
• Define and implement a long-term automation architecture and roadmap using Appium, evolving it into a robust, production-ready framework.
• Coordinate all QA activities for multiple customers, ensuring coverage, consistency, and high-quality delivery.
• Set up and track quality metrics, test coverage data, and release-readiness checkpoints.
• Design and review functional, regression, and exploratory tests.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer success teams to ensure robust testing for new features, integrations, and performance.
• Recruit, mentor, and handle QA engineers, with a mix of hands-on support and team enablement.
• Coordinate manual and automation efforts, ensuring coverage and alignment for each release.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and proactively chip in to planning and quality reviews.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in mobile app testing (native iOS and Android) – Required.
• Confirmed experience building and scaling mobile automation frameworks from the ground up – Required.
• Strong experience with Appium for mobile automation – Required.
• Confirmed experience in automation testing of native mobile apps – Required.
• Strong proficiency in Java – Required.
• Strong understanding of Client/Server applications – Required.
• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills – Required.
• Experience using agentic AI to create, maintain, and fix automated tests, including SpecFlow scenarios, regression coverage, flaky test analysis, and failure investigation.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, able to effectively work with multi-functional teams and engage both technical and non-technical collaborators.
• Experience in a multi-customer / multi-tenant product or B2B environment.
• Deep knowledge of test automation approaches and procedures, as well as overall QA practices.
• Ability to balance multiple challenging priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Good understanding of the entire software development lifecycle.
• SOLID development habits and practices.
• Proactive, diligent, with strong learning ability and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proficient in English for daily communication.

Company Summary

Aristocrat Interactive   

Aristocrat Interactive is Aristocrat Leisure Limited’s (ASX:ALL) regulated online Real Money Gaming (RMG) business and was formed in 2024 when the Anaxi and NeoGames businesses (Anaxi, NeoGames, Aspire Global, BtoBet, and Pariplay) came together.  The business is an industry leader in content and technology solutions for online RMG, with a full-service offering that includes content, proprietary technology platforms and a range of value added services across iLottery, iGaming and Online Sports Betting (OSB). 

About Aristocrat

Aristocrat Leisure Limited (ASX: ALL) is a leading gaming content creation company powered by technology to deliver industry-leading casino games together with mobile games and online real money games, collectively entertaining millions of players worldwide, every day. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Aristocrat has three operating business units, spanning regulated land-based gaming (Aristocrat Gaming), social casino (Product Madness) and regulated online real money (Aristocrat Interactive). Our team of over 8,500 people across the globe are united by our company mission to bring joy to life through the power of play.

Our Values

• All about the Player

• Talent Unleashed

• Collective Brilliance

• Good Business Good Citizen

Travel Expectations

Additional Information

This role is subject to mandatory background screening and regulatory approvals. As part of your employment with Aristocrat, you may be required to complete a criminal background check, submit fingerprints, and obtain licenses or registrations with applicable gaming regulatory authorities.

Aristocrat operates in a highly regulated environment and holds licenses in over 340 gaming jurisdictions worldwide. To meet our global compliance obligations, you will be required to provide the disclosure of relevant personal and background information to government agencies, sovereign nations/tribal regulators, and other applicable gaming regulatory bodies. This is a condition of Aristocrat’s gaming licenses. The specific information required may vary depending on the jurisdiction and project assignment.

At this time, we are unable to sponsor work visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the job posting location for this position on a full-time basis without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.