Junior Software QA Engineer Job, IT Jobs In Kenya 2023, 

Department: Software

Position: Junior Software QA Engineer

Reporting to: DevOps Engineer

About SunCulture 

Founded in 2012, SunCulture’s Vision is to build a world where people take control of their environment in rewarding and sustainable ways. SunCulture does this by developing and commercializing life-changing technology that solves the biggest daily challenges for the world’s 570 million smallholder farming households. We are the largest distributor of solar water pumps / solar irrigation for smallholder farmers in Africa and were selected by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2021. Here is a good explainer video recently made by  CNBC . Over the last 5 years the company has grown significantly and now employs 400+ people around the world. 

About the role

Reporting to DevOps Engineer we seek a fast learning and dynamic junior software engineer in test who will be working in our growing development team leveraging JavaScript and ReactJS. You will pick up a wide range of development tasks, both front and back end. We believe in growing you as an individual and we expect you to take on responsibilities with a can-do attitude.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with QA and engineering teams to identify system requirements and design company wide test strategies.

• Running API tests using postman whenever required.

• Conducts planned and ad-hoc performance tests including load, stress, latency and, scalability tests individually or under guidance of senior engineers for all technical solutions provided within SC and provide written reports.

• Participate in incident investigations under guidance of senior engineers.

• End to end Tests and regression tests on Various Web and mobile applications as assigned.

• Review test case coverage across all technical solutions on a regular basis and keep it current

• Work together with senior engineers and other important stakeholders to plan the release and support of high-quality releases

• Carry out any other duties within the Quality Assurance Section so desired by the DevOps Engineer.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English is a must

• Experience with Git, Postman, Jira, Slack

• Experience with Mysql and Postgres databases is a plus.

• Proficiency with manual software testing

• Proficiency in juggling multiple work streams, complex problems, and agile timelines.

Does this sound like you?

• 1 year + of experience of delivering web and android based technologies

• Within the East African time zone by about 2 hrs on either side

• Proactive, collaborative, organized, curious, problem solver with a “can-do” attitude

• Good presentation skills and the ability to gather feedback from leadership level staff

• Not afraid to fail and get up again. When you fail you communicate early and with actionable context

• Exposure to or preference of working in a fast paced agile environment

How to Apply

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