The Role
As a Senior Software Quality Engineer, you will develop and execute testing strategies, review specifications, coordinate testing, and mentor team members to ensure quality in KOKO's solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In
About KOKO NetworksKOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate technology company with a team of 1,000+ staff across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing markets. Our core lines of business are: KOKO Fuel, a clean, affordable, and renewable bioethanol household cooking solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and KOKO Climate, which retails the certified emissions reductions that are generated by transitioning households from deforestation-based charcoal and other dirty fuels to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by the Financial Times and the IFC, and, in 2022, KOKO received the Keeling Curve Prize for climate impact.
Your Role
- As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for Test Engineers with a strong understanding of complex distributed systems and a demonstrated ability to effectively test and troubleshoot them.
- In this position you will work collaboratively with engineering team members to build productive working relationships and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet KOKO’s quality commitments to its customers. KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role.
What You Will Do
- Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
- Develop deep product and domain knowledge of KOKO’s systems.
- Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements and create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.
- Design, develop and execute automation scripts using automation tools.
- Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs through to closure.
- Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
- Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to improve on their quality and functionality.
- Monitor debugging process results.
- Work with the development team to provide inputs to fix issues and possible solutions to problems.
- Participate with the entire team in setting the quality standards for the product.
- Contribute to reviewing and defining QA processes.
- Provide training, guidance, feedback, and coaching to testing team members.
- Collaborate with appropriate resources on defects/issues and timelines to ensure timely delivery of releases.
- Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
- Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
What You Will Bring to KOKO
- At least 8+ years of relevant experience in manual and automation testing.
- Experience in creating test plans and test scenarios.
- Experience in BDD tools like Cucumber with web testing frameworks like Selenium.
- Experience in mobile app testing tools like Firebase Test Lab or Appium is preferred.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Hands on programming skills in any one of Java, Python or JavaScript.
- Experience in testing REST APIs.
- Knowledge of database architectures and data models used in the relevant product.
- Experience working with Performance and load testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling or equivalent is a plus.
- Demonstrate problem solving and innovation ability.
- Proficiency in multi-tasking.
- Strong teamwork focus and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams.
What We Offer
- We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organization where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having a high impact through their work.
- Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus
- Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work
- Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)
- 21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave
- Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses
- The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop
Top Skills
Appium
Cucumber
Firebase Test Lab
Gatling
Java
JavaScript
Jmeter
Python
Selenium
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The Company
What We Do
KOKO Networks is a venture-backed technology company operating in East Africa and India. We build and deploy dense networks of cloud-connected "KOKOpoints" inside local corner stores, which serve as consumer access points for goods and services delivered in partnership with major suppliers. Our first consumer solution is a liquid ethanol cooking fuel, which delivers significant cost savings and quality of life improvements in the multi-billion dollar market for urban cooking fuel. This fuels solution is delivered through a Kenyan operating partnership with Vivo Energy, the company which owns and operates Shell-branded fuels distribution infrastructure across Africa.
