Tiko is currently hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer
Have you gained experience in the software space and want to continue working on innovative projects whilst making an impact with your tech skills & knowledge? Read on to find out more about their QA Engineer position!
About the company:
Tiko (previously known as Triggerise) believes in a world where all youth have the power to choose where, when, and how they meet their sexual reproductive health needs. Their digital platform delivers scalable and verifiable sexual reproductive health services for young people in 5 main markets in Sub-Saharan Africa - Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, South Africa, and Burkina Faso. They work together with local communities and use nudges like reminders, discounts, and reward points to encourage their users to access and use sexual and reproductive health services. They also support their users in becoming micro-entrepreneurs and adding value to their economies.
Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, their team consists of 160 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from their biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, their people are young and their culture is global and dynamic. Their work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly.
They will happily accept applicants from Portugal, South Africa, and Kenya.
The Role:
As a Quality Assurance Engineer, you'll ensure their software runs smoothly and reliably by validating that all user paths function as intended.
Responsibility areas:
- Processes: You are accountable for quality assurance standards & processes of your team. You must be able to spread a quality mindset and make people understand that everyone own quality responsibility.
- Agile practices: Their team works in an agile way and you will be part of the rituals and practices always looking for improvements.
- Documentation: You document your work and make sure that your documentation is clear and understandable for future use by others. Also making sure that documentation processes rely on quality processes.
- Testing: You execute manual and automated testing for their products. Once you have done the testing and analysis, you communicate your findings in a clear and constructive way with the development team, helping them improve their future work. You help develop best practices and quality standards and drive implementation amongst the teams.
- Development: They expect you to actively participate in meetings and projects and to coordinate with your team members. They also expect you to continue to develop yourself and keep abreast of new developments.
About You:
You are a self-starter, who knows what to do. You enjoy peer-to-peer collaboration and take initiative to get involved with the team that you work with.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of professional experience working as a QA Software Engineer.
- You have great experience executing both manual and automated testing.
- You have experience creating detailed and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- You have experience working with automated testing tools & framework implementation.
- They are currently using JavaScript, Selenium, Postman and Appium (If you have experience with those tools is definitely a plus).
- Ability to prioritize multiple projects and responsibilities
- You know how to communicate with technical and non-technical people.
- You are based in Portugal (mandatory)
- Fluent in English
Recruitment process:
- Screening call with a global recruiter
- 1st interview with tech
- Assessment
- Final interview with tech
The Rewards
At Tiko they believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The salary brackets per month for this position is €2,087 - €3,131 gross in Portugal, R40,451 - R60,677 gross in South Africa, and Ksh216,053 - Ksh324,080 gross in Kenya. They will offer you a salary in this bracket depending on your level of experience and how it relates to your future colleagues.
In addition to your monthly salary, they offer you:
- Great secondary benefits
- A personal development budget.
- Unlimited holidays, if you can make it work with your team you’re good to go.
- Growth opportunities.
- A product to help shape as they grow, to leave your mark on how they do things.
- A vision that they trust that you will do your job without them having to invent unnecessary rules and regulations.
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