Elewa is a leading education innovation company with activities in Sub Saharan-Africa, Western Europe, and beyond. Elewa develops innovative technologies, products, and content that are transforming education and other like-minded industries at both basic and professional levels.
About the iTalanta Program
Elewa’s iTalanta Program matches software development talent in East Africa with cutting-edge local, EU, and US industries through a leading apprenticeship and on-the-job training program. iTalanta engineers work on innovative projects in the newest technologies, internally at Elewa, as well as externally for global startups and corporates.
About the Position
To sharpen your software quality assurance skills and demonstrate on-the-job learning growth through practically carrying out various assignments as assigned and desired. The incumbent will take part in monitoring every phase of the software development process to ensure that the design and software adhere to the client and company standards. The incumbent will provide evidence that establishes confidence to produce products of suitable quality for their intended purposes.
Summary of Duties and Responsibilities
- Support the technical team in the production of high-quality products that meet and even surpass stakeholders’ standards.
- Determine product quality and release readiness based on defined standards and procedures.
- Document test cases.
- Discover bugs within software.
- Drive innovation and streamline overall testing processes.
- Identify, isolate and track bugs throughout testing.
- Identify any potential problems that users might encounter.
- Implement automated tests.
- Perform manual and automated testing.
- Perform and document risk analysis.
- Record test progress and results.
- Research and analyze product features being tested.
- Research new tools, technologies, and testing processes.
- Review user interfaces for consistency and functionality.
Requirements
Qualifications
- We are looking for an ambitious and dependable person, experienced yet with a never-ending hunger for personal growth, and capable of taking large responsibility. You should be an open-minded person that challenges all knowledge and assumptions and that is inspired to solve the problems of today’s societies.
- You should be having a Bachelor’s in Computer Science (or similar qualifications), with at least one year of work experience in technical quality assurance realm.
Required Experience in the following is a plus:
- Quality Assurance Automation, Experience working with and setting up a test environment, Scrum, Kanban, Software Development Life Cycle, Agile Development, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CICD), Postman, JMeter, Selenium, JIRA, Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Compose, Cloud, GCP, Jenkins, GitHub, CircleCI, Terraform, Mocha, Jest etc.
- The successful candidate needs to be hands-on proving they have had prior experience in quality assurance and scripting.
- We are looking for holistic hands-on individuals that show high potential for rapid personal development and have demonstrated the ability to handle Quality Assurance across their entire IT and ERP Circle of Excellence. This person should be an automation expert.
Competencies
- You must have strong analytical, critical thinking, reasoning, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to communicate clearly both with internal and external clients.
- Ability to perform user tests and the empathy to move oneself into the shoes of the user.
- Ability to liaise and work with a team.
Professionalism & Cultural fit
- Ability to work in an agile organization.
- Proven experience with Design Thinking and Product Design.
- Ability to plan work and to report dully on progress.
- Responsive to both internal and external clients.
- Experience with startup culture is a plus.
- Open to receiving & giving constructive feedback in the course of working with both internal and external clients.
Elewa’s Culture
If you can find yourself in the following traits, you will match in perfectly with our culture:
- You always aim to maximize people’s potential.
- You act with empathy.
- You strive to see the full picture.
- You are creative & resourceful.
- You think globally, yet learn and apply locally.
- You share and collaborate.
- You value honesty and integrity.
- You are not afraid to take ownership.
What we can offer
- We offer you a flexible and friendly work environment in which you have the opportunity to grow as you grow others through on-the-job experiential learning.
- We pay in line with the industry and your experience to enable you to fully focus on your work.
- We provide you with on-the-job knowledge and skills that are highly advanced and a personal ambitious training plan to enable you to grow further in your career as you grow others.
- Finally, we offer you a unique opportunity to become part of a unique highly-skilled network of software developers, designers, architects, and technical consultants.
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