Test Engineer at Koko Networks

Your Role

As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for Test Engineers with a strong understanding of complex distributed systems and a demonstrated ability to effectively test and troubleshoot them.

In this position you will work collaboratively with engineering team members to build productive working relationships and collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet KOKO’s quality commitments to its customers. KOKO’s suite of products spans multiple technical domains and disciplines in software and hardware, and so experience in end-to-end systems thinking across distributed components is key for this role.

What you will do

KOKO’s technology stack currently includes (but is not limited to):

• Core Technology: AWS, Python, Flask, Vue.js, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git
• Test Engineering: Maven, Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Postman,Newman, JMeter
• Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Develop deep product and domain knowledge of KOKO’s systems.
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements and create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using automation tools.
• Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs through to closure.
• Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
• Develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to improve on their quality and functionality.
• Monitor debugging process results.
• Work with the development team to provide inputs to fix issues and possible solutions to problems.
• Participate with the entire team in setting the quality standards for the product.
• Contribute to reviewing and defining quality processes.
• Provide training, guidance, feedback, and coaching to testing team members.
• Collaborate with team members on defects/issues and timelines to ensure timely delivery of releases.
• Track quality metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.

What You Will Bring to KOKO

• 2-4 years of relevant experience in manual and automation testing.
• Experience in creating test plans and test scenarios.
• Experience in BDD tools like Cucumber with web testing frameworks like Selenium.
• Experience in mobile app testing tools like Firebase Test Lab or Appium is preferred.
• Hands on programming skills in any one of Java, Python or JavaScript.
• Experience in testing REST APIs.
• Knowledge of database architectures and data models used in the relevant product.
• Experience working with Performance and load testing tools such as JMeter, Gatling or equivalent is a plus.
• Demonstrate problem solving and innovation ability.
• Proficiency in multi-tasking.
• Strong teamwork focus and the ability to foster collaboration within and across teams.