Job Field: Sector in Engineering / Technical , ICT / Computer

Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description

Reporting to: CTO
Hours: 8:30 – 17:30, Monday- Friday and beyond when required
Location: Nairobi, with occasional local travel required
Company Introduction
We empower micro and small businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa to grow and succeed. This not only means access to credit, but also the skills to use it correctly. It’s why our first product blends loans with financial education.
Purpose of the position
We are looking for a Quality Assurance (QA) engineer to develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. QA engineer responsibilities include designing and implementing tests, debugging and defining corrective actions. You will also review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts.)
The QA technician role plays an important part in our company’s product development process.
Our ideal candidate will be responsible for conducting tests before product launches to ensure software runs smoothly and meets client needs, while being cost-effective.
Responsibilities & duties

Plan, create and manage the overall Quality Planning strategy
Collaborate with the Product Development team to ensure consistent project execution; develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs
Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback; liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements when needed
Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases; estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
Complete manual and / or automated testing activities following test plan
Monitor debugging process results; identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs
Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
Investigate the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement quality assurance related solutions
Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
Stay up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies

Work experience & skills

Proven work experience in software development
Proven work experience in software quality assurance
Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools and processes
Experience in writing clear, concise and comprehensive test plans and test cases
Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
Hands-on experience with automated testing tools
Solid knowledge of SQL and scripting
Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process
Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
Experience using Jira to manage software testing activities and defect planning a plus
BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related subject

Personal qualities & behavioral traits

Ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously, employing effective time management and organizational skills
A sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on the company’s success
Ability to work independently and as a team to meet deadlines, goals and objectives
Passion for learning new data analysis methods and tools
Excellent critical thinking skills

Academic & trade qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
5+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer
5+ years of experience with a variety of different testing techniques such as UI Testing, Automated Testing, Test Driven Development Strategies and other
3+ years of experience with web security technology
5+ years of experience with software QA tools and processes

4G Capital does not charge any recruitment fees.

October 24, 2024
Data Engineer

Job Description

Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability etc.
Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data to a central location from a wide variety of data sources using SQL or other ‘big data’ technologies
Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency and other key business performance metrics
Work with stakeholders including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader
Implementing industry standard data governance and security standards

October 24, 2024
2nd Level Operations

We are now looking for a Second Level Operations Specialist that will be responsible for the coordination, management, execution and reactive maintenance activities that require a higher level of support than offered by the 1st level Operations. This person shall ensure that the services provided to customers are continuously available and performing to Service Level Agreement (SLA) performance levels.
Responsibilities:
You will help with Assurance support activities

Incident management
Problem management
System administration
Billing operations

Key Qualifications:

Bachelor level, in engineering (IT, Telecom) or related field.
3-5 years’ experience of deploy system test and lead testing team.
ISEB/ISTQB software testing qualifications would be an advantage

Additional Requirements:

Knowledge of Managed Service telecom operations practice
Knowledge sharing and collaboration skills
Ericsson knowledge
Excellent Communication
Delivering results & meeting customer expectations
Creating & innovating
Applying expertise & technology

Why is Ericsson a great place to work?
Ericsson enables communications service providers to capture the full value of connectivity. The company’s portfolio spans Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services, and Emerging Business and is designed to help our customers go digital, increase efficiency, find new revenue streams, and create new user experiences. Ericsson’s investments in innovation have delivered the benefits of telephony and mobile broadband to billions of people around the world ensuring our solutions – and our customers – are at the forefront of innovation. We support networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. With over 100,000 employees and customers in 180 countries, we combine global scale with technology and service leadership. 40 percent of the world’s mobile traffic is carried over an Ericsson network. And, our Technology for Good and Connect to Learn programs include creating technology that makes it easier to save lives, feed societies, bring technology to emerging markets and connectivity to remote areas, and grow businesses and prosperity.
At Ericsson, we give our employees the freedom to think big and navigate their career, on a global scale. We create technology that helps others, from helping people enjoy their favourite content to helping people recover from natural disasters by enabling better communications between rescue workers. Your ideas and innovations can turn into achievements that impact society and change the world, creating new connections, new possibilities, and new capabilities. We find that Ericsson is at its best when we bring together the diverse skills of our people. Working across business areas, across cultures, across geographical borders, across technical disciplines. More often than not, across ground-breaking solutions. Next generation technology can be staggeringly complex. But the simpler it is to use; the more people benefit from it. Join us and help build technology that makes it simple to connect with information, business, societies, and each other.

October 24, 2024
Database Administrator Head – Customer Relationship Management

Job reference number DBA/SSD/2018
We are looking for a seasoned database administrator with a knack for end-to-end proactive database design and management, a gritty never-say-die doer who relishes challenges, is dynamic, resilient, creative and highly motivated.
If you looking for an employer who promotes individual excellence and mutual respect in a team-driven culture with a key focus on social empowerment, then the Database Administrator position within The Co-operative Bank of Kenya, “The Kingdom Bank” is the perfect opportunity for you to scale new horizons.
The role holder will ensure performance monitoring and management of database, data warehouse components, Supporting Infrastructure, and general ICT systems through setting up of optimal performance benchmarks and the use of modern best practice and appropriate tools to meet business performance growth demands, ensure system security, business continuity and competitiveness in product and service development.
Responsibilities

Monitoring performance and managing parameters to provide fast query responses to front-end users ensuring performance of production databases.
Monitoring including systems logs, events and event correlation and maintaining performance statistics and setting baseline statistics.
Monitoring and managing the high availability components including RAC, Data guard, RMAN, ASM and the underlying infrastructure for mission critical databases.
Developing, managing and testing back-up and recovery plans and ensuring that storage, archiving, back-up and recovery procedures are functioning properly.
Take lead role in the various I.T. audits in providing necessary information and enforcing closure of audit, change management and compliance issues.
Manage key I.T. risks for all database systems and ensure proper mitigation.
Take lead role in BCP and disaster recovery preparedness through periodic testing as scheduled and update of disaster recovery procedures and sharing the results with management.
Team up with applications support, development and infrastructure team in the development, implementation, management applications, infrastructure, and monitor system health in order to proactively identify weaknesses and address them.
Perform database tasks such as schema design, capacity planning, maintenance, trouble shooting, and change control activities.
Considering both back-end organization of data and front-end accessibility for end-users and further refining the physical design to meet system storage requirements.
Installing database management systems (RDBMS) using best practice; ensure compliance with RDBMS license agreements and maintain upgrades and critical patches
Creating and maintaining database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata) and maintain all technical documentation relating to database management.
Communicating regularly with technical, applications and operational staff to ensure database integrity and security.
Perform under limited supervision, maintain reliability of data and databases, and assist in developing and implementing standards for database maintenance and configuration.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent.
3 -5 years in database technology with experience deploying database and data warehousing technologies (e.g. High Availability, Real Application Clusters, ESBU Backups, Partitioning, Oracle DataGuard) in production environments.
Oracle RDBMS 11g/12c OCP certification as well as strong SQL and PLSQL skills including data warehouse objects such as partitioning and materialized views.
Skills in Oracle Engineered Systems e.g. Oracle SuperCluster, Exalytics, Exadata Storage, ZFS storage and SmartScan.
Skills in Data Integration, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, OLAP, and Data mining as well Familiarity with ICT standards such as ITIL, COBIT.
Proficiency in various operating systems like AIX, Solaris, Linux & windows.
Thorough knowledge on data profiling, data modeling and data validation and associated tools; Skills in Database Sizing, Storage, Performance, and Security Considerations.
Strong analytical skills; ability to analyze and correlate complex data and excellent knowledge on the Oracle Technology stack as well as excellent knowledge of ICT system architectures, platforms and Infrastructure.
Ability to effectively communicate complex technical issues and exhibit a wide degree of creativity and latitude coupled with the ability to lead and direct the work of others without the benefit of a direct reporting relationship as well as the ability to utilize independent judgment and to support senior managers on operational criticality
General awareness of the banking industry ICT operations and security procedures

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October 24, 2024
Senior Manager – Digital Engineering

We are pleased to announce the following vacancy in the Digital IT Department within the Technology Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below.
Reporting to the HoD Digital IT, the position holder will be responsible for driving the whole digital transformation with end to end responsibility within IT to drive all digital channels, micro-services architecture implementation, DevOps & agile delivery.
Job Responsibilities

Responsible for for digital channel architecture evolution;
Responsible for moving to a micro-services architecture for all digital solutions;
Responsible for driving the DevOps culture within IT
Responsible for coaching all IT members on agile and ensure all digital products are delivered using agile methodology;
E2E accountability for systems support including and not limited to MTTR, SLA, individual and global incidents as well as E2E accountability for building proactive controls based on machine learning and similar techniques;
System accountability for all digital channels solutions inclusive of apps, portals and chat-bots
People management.

QUALIFICATIONS
Must have technical / professional qualifications

BS Degree in computer science or engineering;
7+ years in leading software teams in startups or digital native organizations;
Experience in using advanced technologies around DevOPs, micro-services, app and backend development as well as data science.

October 24, 2024
Software Engineer

Who You Are
You are an engineer whose work shows that you excel at learning. You are proud of your ability to write clean, clear code that is easy for others to understand and work with. You are opinionated about your development tools (e.g. git) and you know how to use them. You enjoy putting your head down and writing code, but you’re aware that your job isn’t only about shipping code: you are a great teammate that knows how to communicate with all your project’s stakeholders in order to provide great software that keeps your users happy.
Requirements

Enthusiasm for building great web applications
Very strong with Unix / Linux systems. Experience with command line is necessary
Strong understanding of OOP, design patterns, modular programming and REST
Experience with analyzing and tuning database queries
Experience with version control
Experience with Digital Ocean is an asset
High proficiency in JavaScript and latest front-end technologies
Have the personality to thrive in a startup environment – including proactive problem-solving and self-management.

Responsibilities

Strike the right balance between writing perfect code and delivering it quickly
Participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle including definition, design, implementation, data tracking, testing, delivery and support
Automated deployments with Chef or related technologies.
Ensure quality by performing thorough testing

What We Offer You

An Environment where you can expect your teammates to support your growth goals
Competitive salary
Flexible work hours

October 24, 2024
Backend Engineer QA Automation Engineer

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to design and implement core components of our financial platform and scale it to serve millions of users across the world. The technical scope of the project is broad and calls for technical expertise across a wide range of problem domains.
Responsibilities

You will design and implement product features as defined in the roadmap
You will own and maintain substantial portions of the backend infrastructure
The opportunity to code using cutting-edge platforms and interact with our data science team
You will mentor and grow junior engineers on best practices and code efficiency

Qualifications

Detailed oriented – you are a proven developer who values clean and efficient code
Technology toolbox – you have all of the tools for development plus a few extras
Translator – you have experience working closely with product managers, cross-functional teams, and customers to translate requirements into technical design
Leader – you have the ability to keep pace with, and set pace for, your teammates. Able to learn and teach new technologies and solutions
Solutions Driven – experience thinking out loud to create the best solutions to complex, tricky problems, using the latest technical methodologies/processes
4+ years experience working on backend software using modern languages and frameworks (Java, Scala, Python, Play, Django)
Advanced degree in Computer Science and/or Math
Expert proficiency in Agile development process
Working knowledge in API development for mobile/web use
Strong relational database experience (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL)

Preferred skills & experience

Highly motivated and self-disciplined
Strong Computer Science fundamentals
Excellent ability to prioritize and communication in a fast pace environment
Bonus: Experience in predictive analysis and machine learning

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October 24, 2024
Python Engineer/Senior Python Engineer

Job Description

Reports to: Chief Technology Officer
Start date: ASAP
Compensation: Competitive, dependent on level in team hierarchy. Transparent developer pay scale will be shared as part of offer
Pula is growing our dev team, and are looking for engineers with strong experience working as part of agile dev teams.
Our core stack is a Django app running on AWS, with an Android app (written in native Java) that serves at the main user interface for our services. At peak times, our stack is handling thousands of insurance registrations every day across multiple geographies. Our 2019 roadmap includes expanding the feature-set and covering more geographies, and engineering excellence lies at the core of this plan.
Our current tooling includes Slack, Jira, Gitlab & Gitlab CI, Ansible, Crashlytics, Bugfender, Sentry and others, but we’re always evolving our processes and welcome strong opinions on how to do things better.
What we’re looking for:

Strong Python skills, especially with using Django at scale
Passionate about building excellent code and processes, and eagerness to learn new skills
Experience: We’re hiring for upper-mid or senior level, so while there is no strict requirement for a certain number of years’ experience, we’re looking candidates who have worked in industry already and are ready to take it to the next level
Comfortable writing native SQL queries
Familiarity with Agile development processes
AWS and DevOps familiarity is a strong bonus

What we offer:

The opportunity to contribute to improving livelihood of smallholder farmers across Africa
Transparent payscale & progression path for all tech team staff
Occasional field visits in various countries
Daily in-office snacks, lunch & learn sessions, remote working option

October 24, 2024
Enterprise Account Manager Network and Endpoint Security

Mart Networks Kenya Limited is seeking a candidate as an Enterprise Account Executive who will be solely responsible for establishing Sophos presence and driving sales in the designated geography with a focus on Government & Enterprise Accounts. He/She will be expected to penetrate prospect target accounts for new business as well as establish and work with partners in the territory.
Responsibilities

Responsible for New Business Development via prospecting, qualifying, selling and closing Software/ hardware solutions / services and products.
Create and Manage Channel Partner network for products under the Distribution Product Portfolio together with the Country Manager.
Responsible for Monthly, Quarterly & Annual Revenue Targets.
Manage client relationship through all phases of the sales cycle. Provide a consultative solutions sales process to prospects.
Conducts one-on-one and group sales presentations.
Provide account management to an existing territory.
Responsible for tracking customer information, forecasts and reports.
Develop and maintain prospect and customer list based on strategic marketing data and other sources for sales leads.
Plan & Strategize marketing activities with the Marketing and Channel teams for the channel.
Responsible for co-ordination with the HO for all technical, commercial, administrative and legal assistance.

Requirements

Bachelor Degree or Masters Degree OR Equivalent Experience
7 + years Solution Selling experience in the computer networking & security space.
3 + years Solution Selling experience in Enterprise and Government Partner Accounts

Additional Qualifications

Outstanding Presentation, Written and Verbal Communication Skills.
Strong technical knowledge with a broad range of security and networking technologies.
Must have both the sales skills and technical knowledge to make presentations and lead customer discussions to advance the sales process.
Ability to develop relationships and work extensively at the executive level.
Provide accurate forecasting to Reporting Manager regularly.
Ability to self-motivate and multi-task and work independently or within a team Success Factors.

October 24, 2024
Sales Engineer

Job description
Reports to: Country Manager – Kenya
We are looking for an outstanding Sales Engineer to drive the technical aspects of our partnerships while simultaneously ensuring/maintaining quality of our software and hardware products. You will work between engineering and business development teams to ensure smooth communication and process while simultaneously reducing the time it takes to onboard new partnerships.
Primary Responsibilities

Maintain relationships with partners including gathering requirements and managing implementation phase
Develop and improve client facing software products across implementationsDeveloping automation frameworks, tools, and security testing scripts to replace manual test cases wherever possible
Test and validate new code to fix bugs and implement new features and user stories
Executing hardware-specific test cases to ensure tight integration between Endless OS and OEM hardware platforms
Communicating with multiple teams including Product Management, Customer Support, Sales and other related teams within Endless

Qualifications

A Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or related program, or equivalent relevant work experience
Experience with Linux-based operating systems.
Must be comfortable working with the command line
Previous experience in client facing/relationship building role
Familiarity with QA methodologies such as regression testing, user acceptance testing, functional testing, etc.
Experience working with bug tracking tools (Phabricator, Jira, Bugzilla, etc)Strong problem solving, communication, and prioritization skills
The ability to write test cases and automated test scripts
Hands-on experience with PC hardware and related components
Excellent written and verbal English-language/communication skills
An enthusiastic, independent, proactive, flexible, and cooperative approach to getting your work done
Experience with Python and/or Bash shell scripting a plus
Experience writing test scripts in Perl is a big plus.

October 24, 2024