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  • Posted: Oct 17, 2016
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Andela is a global talent accelerator that produces world-class remote developers and connects them with top employers. Andela finds the brightest young people in Africa and gives them the training and mentorship needed to thrive as full-time, remote developers for companies around the world. The company is backed by investors including Steve Case, Omidya...
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    Team Lead, Software Testing

    As a Team Lead, Software Testing, you will primarily work under the Technology & Learning department building advanced automated test suites to exercise our internal applications. You will work with the Technology team to automate testing, create new test harnesses, implement new automation tools, and create innovative automated test systems that monitor the health of all Andela production systems. You will be a key contributor to delivering bug free software products that are critical to helping Andela grow and scale as an organization. You will also use patterns of cognitive apprenticeship to manage Andela apprentices towards efficient and productive contributions of work and development of professional capacities. You will work with the Learning & Development team to help develop a curriculum for Testing/Quality Assurance.

    Responsibilities Include:

    • Analyze and decompose a complicated software system and design a strategy to test this system
    • Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
    • Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities
    • Design an automation test harness geared toward maintainability
    • Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
    • Analyze the specifications and business purpose of applications and test the system from a functional and user experience perspective
    • Identify test scenarios, correlate them to business requirements, and report on percentage of functionality been tested
    • Prioritize defects accurately based on impact on business goals
    • You must be able to code; this role encompasses much more than manual testing: python, ruby, SQL, shell scripting
    • Mentor entry-level testers willing to become world-class
    • Leverage cognitive apprenticeship methods to support the learning of entry-level apprentices
    • Define the curriculum for Testing/Quality Assurance expertise at different levels of the Andela Fellowship

    What makes you a great fit for this role:

    • The ability to be located in Lagos, Nigeria or Nairobi, Kenya.
    • 2-5 years experience in Software Quality Assurance or Software Test Engineering
    • Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
    • Hands-on automation design and scripting experience
    • Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
    • Experience working with Continuous Delivery Pipelines
    • Experience with performance, scalability and security testing
    • Experience with Appium, Selenium WebDriver, Postman, IDE’s or other common testing tools
    • A Bachelor's or advanced degree Software Engineering, Computer Science or related field.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Andela on jobs.omidyar.com to apply

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