Junior Software QA Engineer at SunCulture Kenya Ltd

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.

Key Requirements

• 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