ENGIE Energy Access is hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our digital team and help us deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. If you are confident in full-stack quality processes and mobile testing ecosystems and want to create real, positive impact with your work, please reach out to us.

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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.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Quality Assurance Execution: Collaborate with product managers and software engineers to contribute to comprehensive quality assurance strategies, test plans, and quality gates for web and mobile software platforms across the full development lifecycle
• Mobile Testing: Execute end-to-end testing of native mobile applications (primarily Android) and cross-platform solutions, ensuring optimal performance across diverse device configurations and network conditions typical in African markets
• Technical Support: Provide second-level technical support, including analysis of production issues in distributed systems
• Requirements Implementation: Maintain deep understanding of user requirements and business logic through BDD practices, translating business scenarios into comprehensive automated and manual test cases
• Test Automation Support: Implement and maintain test automation frameworks for mobile, web, and API testing, supporting CI/CD pipeline integration
• Quality Testing & Analysis: Execute comprehensive test suites (manual, automated, performance) and provide detailed analysis with actionable insights
• Technical Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, test procedures, and contribute to knowledge base for complex interconnected systems
• Agile Quality Support: Support quality practices within agile development cycles, ensuring tickets meet acceptance criteria while maintaining team velocity
• System Integration Testing: Validate integrations across RESTful APIs, MQTT protocols, and cloud services in production-scale enterprise environments

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Mobile QA Expertise: Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience in mobile application QA testing with strong knowledge of Android ecosystem
• Native Development Understanding: Working knowledge of Android (Kotlin/Java) development to enable effective testing and code review
• Enterprise Systems: Proven track record with production-scale enterprise systems that are highly connected and distributed
• Protocol Expertise: Strong understanding of RESTful services, MQTT protocols, and real-time communication systems
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Experience with AWS services and Firebase, with exposure to hybrid cloud architectures including self-hosted solutions
• Database Proficiency: Strong SQL skills and experience with NoSQL databases for comprehensive data validation and exploratory testing
• System Design Understanding: Good understanding of system architecture, microservices patterns, and complex interconnected system designs
• DevOps Integration: Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment processes, and infrastructure as code principles

Technical Competencies

• Testing Methodologies: Good understanding of BDD, TDD, and other quality engineering patterns
• Automation Frameworks: Proficiency with Selenium, Appium, Espresso, and API testing tools
• Programming Skills: Coding abilities in Python, Ruby, or Kotlin for test automation and tooling development
• Monitoring & Observability: Experience with Sentry, Grafana, or similar monitoring and telemetry tools
• Performance Testing: Experience with JMeter, Locust, or similar tools for load and performance validation
• Documentation: Excellent technical writing skills with experience maintaining comprehensive test documentation and requirements traceability
• Professional Skills
• Analytical Excellence: Exceptional attention to detail with robust analytical skill-set, endless curiosity, and innovative problem-solving approach
• Communication: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
• Team Collaboration: Proven track record as an exceptional team player with strong collaborative skills
• Adaptability: Comfortable working in fast-paced, distributed team environments with changing requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• Certifications: Relevant certifications in mobile testing, cloud platforms, or agile methodologies are a plus
• Nice-to-Have Experience
• Mobile Development: Hands-on mobile development experience with published applications on Google Play Store or Apple App Store
• Advanced Cloud Services: Experience with advanced AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch)
• Container Technologies: Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration for testing environments
• Security Testing: Experience with mobile application security testing and penetration testing methodologies
• International Experience: Understanding of international mobile markets, localization testing, and emerging market constraints

Languages

• English: Fluent (required)
• French is a plus
•  Knowledge of Swahili or other East African languages 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!
• Additional Technologies (Nice-to-Have)
• Mobile: Native Android (Kotlin) -preferred, iOS (Swift) – desirable.
• Testing: Jest, Appium, Selenium, Espresso
• Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS), Firebase
• Monitoring: Sentry, Grafana, CloudWatch
• Communication: MQTT, WebSockets, RESTful APIs
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes