QA Automation Engineer at Kuda Bank

Role Overview

We are in search of a QA Engineer to help us grow into a company that can bring meaningful change to the way people across Africa get access to great financial products and services in order to take control of their personal finances. We are actively looking for bright, talented, driven people who are excited by our mission. If this sounds like a great way to spend your valuable time, then please get in touch with us.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality
• Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Monitor debugging process results
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
• Test current products and identify deficiencies
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Develop and monitor performance metrics for all stages of the production process
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements and ensure consistent project execution
• Plan, create and manage the overall quality planning strategy
• Identify quality assurance process bottlenecks and suggest actions for improvement
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

Requirements

• You are familiar with native Android and IOS development frameworks
• You have strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
• You have experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• You have hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• You have hands-on experience with automated testing tools
• You have solid knowledge of API test automation
• You have experience in determining the scope of test automation
• You have experience with using bug reporting tools like JIRA, Trello
• You have strong knowledge of the concept of Object Oriented Programming
• You have an ability to architect test automation using TestNG, Mocha
• You have hands-on experience with Apache Jmeter for load and performance test.
• You have excellent experience with selenium, Cypress or any other automated test tools
• You have experience with Appium and java for mobile automation
• You can demonstrate your experience with Continuous Integration / Azure DevOps
• You have solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
• You have experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
• You have experience with performance and/or security testing
• You have a sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
• You are a critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• You are a team player
• You have good time-management skills
• You have great interpersonal and communication skills
• You have good problem-solving skills
• You can take the initiative and adapt to a fast-paced work environment