Senior Software Quality Engineer

About KOKO Networks

KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,800+ employees across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth.  Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and (2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC.

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.

• 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 QA processes.Provide training, guidance, feedback, and coaching to testing team members.
• Collaborate with appropriate resources on defects/issues and timelines to ensure timely delivery of releases.
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
• Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies.
• 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: Java Or Python, Selenium, Robot Framework, TestNG, Cucumber, Postman, Newman, JMeter
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• At least 5-7 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.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• 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.

• Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus
• Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work
• Health insurance
• 21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave
• Hybrid working model - allowing you to split your time between in-person collaboration at one of our offices and working remotely
• Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses
• The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop

KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!