Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title: L1 Quality Assurance Engineer

Department: Digital

Reporting line: Software Engineering Manager

Location: Kampala

Job Grade: 14

About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

www.engie-energyaccess.com

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa

Job Purpose/Mission

We are looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our digital team and help us to deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. If you are confident in the Rails world and if you want to create real, positive impact with your work, please reach out to us.

This position offers a great opportunity to directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. You will work closely with our stakeholders and users in Africa and beyond.

Our small, self-organized, distributed team (Kampala / Berlin / Nairobi) develops the backbone of our operations, which we also provide to other businesses in the PAYGo sector as Software as a Service – see https://paygee.com.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the product managers and software engineers and contribute to the development of effective quality assurance strategies and test plans for the software platforms.
• Provide second level support
• Maintain a deep understanding of user requirements and business logic as core foundation to author high quality automated and manual test plans
• Support software automation for Quality Assurance including test planning/automation, bug reporting
• Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyze results.
• Document and report technical issues to the team
• Test tickets on agile board and make sure they meet the acceptance criteria

Knowledge and skills

Experience:

• Diploma in Computer Science or relevant field
• Ability to document and troubleshoot errors
• Ability to attend to detail and have robust analytical skill-set, endless curiosity and a desire to think outside the box
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A track record as an exceptional team player
• Comfortable querying SQL databases and navigating web application codebases to give exploratory testing focus.
• Understanding of automation frameworks like selenium, Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus

Good to have experience

• Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools in modern web and mobile application (Selenium, Appium, Postman, Locust, Jmeter)
• Knowledge of observability tools such as Sentry, Graphana
• Ability to code in ruby or python

Qualifications:

• Bachelors in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science are preferred)

Language(s):

• English
• French is a plus

Our Technology Stack:

• Web framework: Rails/Django/Flask

• Background task: Sidekiq

• Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular

• API: Grape, Devise, FastApi

• TDD: RSpec, Pytest

• Search: Thinking Sphinx

• Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis

• Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD

• Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible

• Fresh Ideas Always welcome!

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!