Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer at Bamboo Nigeria (Remote)

Bamboo is an investment platform that gives Africans the tools to build wealth from the ground up through real-time access to the global markets.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Work status: Fully Remote
Department: Engineering

About the Role

• We are looking for a Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to monitor, inspect, and implement measures to improve Bamboo’s products and processes, ensuring they meet established quality standards.
• As a QA Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and executing testing strategies, identifying and resolving quality issues, and ensuring seamless integration within our testing framework.
• You will collaborate with engineering and product technical leads to develop a deep understanding of system architecture, define acceptance tests, and automate them to enhance efficiency.
• Additionally, you will track key quality assurance metrics, such as defect densities and open defect counts, to drive continuous improvement.
• You will lead efforts to ensure tests run smoothly and efficiently, directing broken tests to the responsible engineers for prompt resolution. Working alongside a team of QA analysts, you will optimize testing processes and contribute to improving the overall quality of engineering at Bamboo.
• Ultimately, your role will be critical in ensuring that our software runs smoothly, meets client needs, and adheres to cost-effective quality standards. If you have an engineering background and a passion for delivering high-quality software, we’d love to hear from you

Responsibilities
What You will be doing:

• You will conceptualize appropriate acceptance tests and automate them within our integration testing framework.
• Perform manual & automated testing to ensure they are running smoothly and quickly. Also ensures that broken tests are rapidly directed to the responsible engineers for correction.
• Create test plans, test scripts, defect logs, and test summary reports for each project/feature.
• Maintain documentation of risk analysis, test cases, progress, and results
• Develop standards and procedures to determine product quality and release readiness
• Discover bugs within software and proactively identify infrastructural issues
• Drive innovation and streamline overall testing processes
• Identify, isolate, and track bugs throughout testing
• Review user interfaces for consistency and functionality
• Develop customer-focused test plans; seldom requiring re-work
• Set up and maintain testing environments
• Perform complex test cases and maintain associated test records
• Proactively works with other team members as needed to resolve issues and meet project goals
• Identifies new ideas, tools, and process improvements to help the team meet objectives
• Uses customer understanding and knowledge of the relevant technologies to measure the quality of a better product/service

Who you are (Role Expectations)

• You have 5+ years of experience as a Quality assurance/ software test engineer in the fintech industry or on a consumer finance product.
• You have great knowledge of QA methodology, industry-standard testing, and bug-tracking tools
• You have experience in testing backend services such as APIs, Databases, and distributed services.
• Strong SQL testing and understanding of different SQL statements.
• You have experience with usability best practices; able to influence and improve user experience
• Experience driving quality through process, instrumentation, requirements, and testing
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes. You have hands-on experience with automated testing tools such as Postman, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, and others
• Strong Experience with compatibility and  accessibility testing
• You have extensive experience in both manual and automation testing for mobile applications (iOS & Android), with strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills. This includes hands-on experience using Appium for automation
• You’ve demonstrated a deep understanding of the testing pyramid and consistently write unit tests as well as higher-level tests in alignment with it. You ensure that all tests, including those for edge cases and errors, are written to handle scenarios gracefully.
• You approach all engineering work with a security-first mindset. 
• You actively seek out security vulnerabilities within the codebase and during peer reviews. 
• Your solid understanding of security threats enables you to integrate mitigation strategies from the planning phase through to execution.
• Nice to have: Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) Certification.
• You are a skilled communicator to both technical and non-technical audiences, and are known to articulate ideas and plans clearly, accurately, and effectively with all levels of internal and external audiences.
• You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about the future and determined to get there.
• You appreciate direct communication. You’re both an active communicator and an eager listener
• You’re cool with candid feedback and see every setback as an opportunity to grow.
• You have a “can do” attitude. Owning a problem doesn’t scare you, but rather empowers you to take 100% responsibility for achieving the Bamboo mission.
• You’re never tired of learning.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online