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This company was formerly known as SmartCook Energy. Last-mile energy networks for Africa's cities. Smarter commerce for urban Africa.
Unique rich media delivery platforms.
Our mission is to improve life for everyone in Africa’s cities.
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
- 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.
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Your Role
As a Data Analyst, you will drive our analytics function by generating data-driven insights to guide commercial and operating strategy; developing metrics, dashboards, and statistical analyses; and helping to shape our overall vision & strategy.
What You Will Do
- Build models to identify trends, forecast performance, and identify improvements to company strategy, products, and operations
- Design and run data analyses to guide decision-making
- Design and prepare company dashboards and other key stakeholder reporting
- Design and develop automation tools to streamline day-to-day activities
- Identify and coordinate data infrastructure improvements with the software team
- Enable the success of KOKO Team Members by supporting them in accessing, understanding, and utilizing data
- Ensure consistency, accuracy, and overall integrity of business metrics
- Develop and maintain business intelligence documentation, training materials, best practices, and overall data toolkit
What You Will Bring to KOKO
- Bachelor’s degree, ideally in Computer Science, Math, Statistics, or Economics (Master's degree a plus)
- 4+ years of experience in data analysis, consulting, finance, or other quantitatively rigorous role
- Proficiency with Tableau and/or Looker, SQL, Excel, and statistical methods (Python an added plus)
- Ability to balance priorities, clarify stakeholder requirements, pay keen attention to detail, and generally keep deliverables on schedule
- Ability to communicate technical details clearly and concisely to management & external stakeholders
- A curious mind and a passion for problem-solving, data, and analytics
- Comfort in a fast-paced, growth-stage start-up environment
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Your Role
As KOKO grows within and outside Kenya, our team is looking for experienced full stack engineers to lead development of our cloud based software products, and be responsible for major technical decisions associated with them accountable for their successful execution.
In this position on the software engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to many customer and internal facing products. 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) AWS, Python, Flask, Vue.js, Postgres, Kotlin, Java, Firebase, C++, Celery, Message Queues, Odoo ERP, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Git
- Design, implement and deploy web-based front-end applications and back-end services
- Lead the delivery of software projects in a team-based environment
- Collaborate cross-functionally with business users, product managers, project managers and other engineers to to define, design, scope and ship new features using elegant solutions.
- Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices.
- Help others to improve the quality of their work through regular design and code reviews
- Deliver new features to production environments and support them in operation
- Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO
What You Will Bring to KOKO
- At least four years experience developing applications at enterprise scale using the front and back end technologies in our stack
- Ability to translate user experience design (mockups, wireframes and user journeys) into code using CSS and scripting frameworks
- Ability to develop robust and scalable backend services defined by RESTful APIs in Python
- Familiarity with Cloud/ SaaS architectures and how to build secure and maintainable services
- Strong understanding of unit testing, design patterns and usage of tools like profilers
- Experience with source control and continuous integration tools (We use GIT and Jenkins)
- Worked in an Agile multi-functional team
- Thrive in an environment that requires you to partner with multiple cross-functional teams as stakeholders/customers
- Great oral and written communication skills
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