Quality Assurance Engineer at Zola Electric

Zola Electric Nigeria combines Silicon Valley technology with local expertise to offer homes and businesses a long-term solar solution to an unreliable grid. Adaptable to both energy needs and income, Zola Electric Nigeria’s solution can be bought over time through a leasing structure. The first few watts starts a chain reaction that enables people to achieve commonly held aspirations: security, education, access to information, and a longer and more efficient day.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Lagos

Job Summary

  • This may be your dream job if you’re someone who dreams of combining your knowledge and skills to help ZOLA Electric change the renewable energy landscape.
  • You need to be passionate about bringing solar energy to off-grid areas and emerging markets with the unique social, technical, and business challenges that come along with it.
  • You are inspired by the opportunity to unleash human potential and motivated to help build a truly epic business.

Position

  • The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for planning and implementing Quality Assurance (QA) testing procedures for our software tools, apps and platforms.
  • To run exploratory and automated testing procedures for Zola’s range of software applications, from enterprise Web applications to consumer quality Android/iOS mobile and tablet apps, to custom software that connects solar systems to the data warehouse.
  • Manage and report on key performance indicators for the QA process
  • Identify and analyze joint software PM/QA tools to improve productivity and quality
  • Observe workflows, procedures, systems, and controls for effective QA testing pipeline
  • Review feature specs and recommend tactics to improve testability
  • Follow bug reporting process in use by the overall organization
  • Achieve benchmarks for timely processing of reported bugs based on the level of severity
  • To work with other QA testers (including QA services) to estimate, plan, and implement complementary testing activities.
  • To ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved in our bug tracking system.
  • Amongst others, the role consists of:
  • Participate in project planning meetings to help define ongoing software quality objectives
  • Embed a project QA testing process alongside
  • Utilize QA testing and ticketing tools
  • Participate in iterative improvements to the QA process to achieve faster and higher fidelity output
  • Participate in team retrospectives to identify root causes of issues
  • Create test plans for project features to systemize quality control
  • Run exploratory testing procedures on software to uncover bugs and unanticipated usability issues
  • Test integrations of interconnected applications to ensure data integrity and expected output
  • Implement automated testing of UI workflows
  • Document investigation process steps to replicate and recommended resolution (where applicable) to allow engineers to take speedy action
  • Triage issues in an established ticketing workflow, expending resources where most impactful relative to plan

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline
  • Experience using JavaScript, Python or another language to automate tests
  • 2+ years of successful software QA management experience
  • Strong commitment to quality and ability to work closely and communicate effectively with developers and project managers across multiple teams
  • Ability to conduct testing activities and recommend process improvement opportunities for multiple concurrent projects
  • Interpersonal skills and able to work with various cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products
  • Software QA Automation and black box testing experience
  • Working knowledge of QA in Agile methodologies
  • Experience testing web and mobile products
  • Familiarity with integrated hardware/software product testing
  • Experience working with distributed (virtual) teams
  • Able to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
  • Highly effective communicator and problem solver
  • Willingness to learn and implement new processes
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong talent development and leadership skills.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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