Quality Assurance Engineer at Inventions Technologies Tanzania

The QA Engineer is a core member of an Agile squad responsible for ensuring end-to-end product quality through manual and automated testing. The role spans the full software delivery lifecycle, embedding quality practices from requirements through to production to ensure reliable and high-performing digital products. 

Delivery Approach and Ways of working.

The QA Engineer works across the full delivery lifecycle, participating in backlog refinement, sprint planning, development collaboration, testing, and release validation. The role ensures clear entry and exits quality criteria, enforces definition of done standards, and supports structured testing activities across each sprint iteration. 

The role applies to a balanced testing strategy covering API, functional, automation, and non-functional testing, with a strong emphasis on risk-based testing, continuous validation, and production readiness

Key accountabilities and decision ownership

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to ensure adherence to design quality and coding standards
• Design and implement acceptance tests for user and technical stories
• Test and validate solution against user story and technical story acceptance criteria, leveraging automation where possible
• Debug tests and provide corrective actions to software engineering 
• Identify, record, and monitor testing bugs
• Track quality assurance metrics, such as defect density and early life incidents
• Estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities
• Manage incidents as level two and level three support
• Manage problems as level two and level three support
• Suggest improvements to user stories and UX

Core competencies, knowledge and experience

• Technical design assessment and evaluation
• End-to-end solution and software test design, execution, and validation,  with management of testing scenarios across teams / capabilities
• Unit, integration, smoke and static code analysis testing
• Architectural element testing e.g. APIs
• Performance and security testing
• Automated testing and tools e.g. Selenium
• Code reviewing
• Test report creation
• Software incident and problem management
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• DevOps culture, processes, and tools
• Expertise in multiple programming and markup languages, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, SQL, XML, JSON, YAML, and Python 
• Competent working with cloud-native architectures, including public cloud PaaS/ IaaS, micro-services architectures, APIs
• Highly cross-functional and able to swap and perform adjacent roles at short notice
• Flexibility to deal with changing projects and priorities in a short space of time
• Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills that drives effective constructive feedback and support
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to distil difficult technical concepts into simple and actionable practices
• Willingness to track, assess, and incorporate practice and technology developments into day-to-day working
• Good understanding of the business capability / user journey, wider organizational goals, and desired product business outcomes
• Understanding of both the current Telecommunications and digital services market and emerging business and technology trends

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field 
• At least 2-5 years relevant work experience of with three or more years is in software quality assurance, testing, programming and/or systems analysis
• Experience of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes, with experience writing and executing comprehensive test plans and cases
• Experience of automated testing tools and scripting
• Experience working with agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, BDD and ATDD
• Experience working with multiple programming and scripting languages, such as JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, and Python
• Experience working in cloud-native environments
• Professional experience and knowledge of the Telecommunications industry preferred
• Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) preferred
• Competency in UX principles and practices preferer