Overview
Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer
One Acre Fund
One Acre Fund was established in 2006 to provide agricultural services to one million smallholder farmers, enabling them to increase the productivity of their farms significantly. The 8,000+ members of our team come from a variety of backgrounds and occupations. We increase farmers’ prosperity by offering high-quality farm goods on credit that are delivered to their houses in walking distance and by offering agricultural instruction to increase harvests. We operate in six key African countries. The farmers we work with at One Acre Fund harvest 50% more food on average after working with us.
Visit our Why Work Here blog for additional details on our work.
Concerning the Role:
The Engineering team’s efforts to improve the technical procedures of the team and the quality and dependability of our solutions are led by the Quality Engineer position.
As you collaborate with Software Engineers, Business Analysts, and DevOps Engineers in our Engineering department, you will answer to an engineering manager on your team.
Our toolkit is built on Azure DevOps, Zephyr Squad, SonarCloud, JIRA, and GitHub.
Accountabilities:
- For your team, create and maintain a high-quality strategy document.
- Optimize and enhance the overall testing procedures.
- Create and approve processes to assess product quality and readiness for release.
- Investigate, create, and suggest testing instruments and industry standards.
- Create thorough, well-organized test cases and strategies.
- Find, separate, and monitor issues at every testing stage.
- Make recommendations for more test cases and evaluate the coverage of test suites using tools like Zephyr Squad and SonarCloud, among others.
- Respond quickly as first responders to troubleshooting and event management that comes up.
A Career Growth and Development:
We invest in the professional growth of our employees and have a strong culture of lifelong learning. Your manager will check in with you once a week, provide regular performance evaluation, and grant you access to training programs and coaching. Every six months, we conduct career assessments and set aside time to talk about your aspirations and professional objectives. You’ll get the chance to mold an expanding company and forge fulfilling long-term employment.
Qualifications:
These are the standard qualifications we search for in all roles. Especially for this position, you will have:
- Three or more years of software development expertise, with an emphasis on control, quality assurance, and testing of the product. The following certifications are advised: ISTQB, ASTQB, CAST, CSTE, and CSQA.
- Familiarity with creating and running automated tests, such as end-to-end, integration, and unit tests.
- Possessing the ability to take accountability for a team’s output and produce reports that demonstrate quality compliance.
Date of Preferred Start: As soon as possible
Employment Location: Burundi, Zambia, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, or Ethiopia
Advantages/ Benefits:
- Comprehensive perks (benefits), housing, and health insurance.
Eligibility:
A work visa for this position may be supported by One Acre Fund. Nationals of our operating nations, or those with a strong professional background and work history there, are preferred.
Deadline to Apply: November 12, 2024
At no point during the interview process does One Acre Fund request payment from applicants or charge them for testing. Emails sent from the official One Acre Fund address always end up with the @oneacrefund.org domain. Instead of sending applications or application materials to globalhotline@oneacrefund.org, please report any suspicious communication here.
The goals and objectives of our organization are closely linked to diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism. The goal of One Acre Fund is to create a work environment where all employees continuously feel appreciated, included, and connected. This will enable our team to grow as professionals and have a remarkable influence on the farmers we support.
Regardless of ethnicity, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, handicap, gender, gender identity, or expression, we are dedicated to providing equitable job opportunities. Being an equal opportunity employer makes us proud.
