Senior Quality Engineer

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund supplies 1 million smallholder farmers with the agricultural services they need to make their farms vastly more productive. Our 8,000+ team is drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. With operations across six core countries in Africa, we make farmers more prosperous by providing quality farm supplies on credit, delivered within walking distance of farmers’ homes, and agricultural training to improve harvests. On average, the farmers we serve harvest 50 percent more food after working with One Acre Fund. 

To learn more about our work, take a look at our Why Work Here blog for more information.

About the Role

The Quality Engineer role is at the forefront of the Engineering team's endeavor to enhance the quality and reliability of our solutions and to improve the team's technical processes.

You will report to an engineering manager on your team as you work with Software Engineers, Business Analysts, and DevOps Engineers in our Engineering department.

Our tooling landscape is based on GitHub, SonarCloud, JIRA, Zephyr Squad, and Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain quality strategy document for your team
• Streamline and augment overall testing processes
• Devise and endorse procedures to determine product quality and release readiness
• Research, develop, and recommend industry standards and tools for testing
• Develop comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
• Identify, isolate, and track bugs throughout all stages of testing
• Utilize tools such as SonarCloud and Zephyr Squad, among others, to assess the coverage of test suites and make recommendations for additional test cases
• Act among first responders to imminent troubleshooting and incident management

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training programs, and regular feedback on your performance. We hold career reviews every six months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and build a rewarding long-term career.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• 3+ years of experience in software development with a focus on software testing, quality assurance, and control. Recommended certifications: CSQA, CAST, CSTE, ASTQB, or ISTQB
• Experience writing and executing automated tests, which include unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests
• Experience taking ownership of a team's deliverables and generating reports to show quality compliance

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Burundi, Zambia, or Tanzania

Benefits

Health insurance, housing, and comprehensive benefits

Eligibility

One Acre Fund can support a work permit for this role. However, nationals of (or those with an extensive professional background and work history in) our countries of operation are preferred.

Application Deadline

12 November 2024

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here (globalhotline@oneacrefund.org), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.