🙌 Your Mission

At NALA, we believe moving money across borders should be seamless and secure. As a QA Engineer, your mission is to ensure the reliability and performance of our global payments products. You will design and execute testing processes, drive automation, and collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to deliver a flawless payment experience. Through attention to detail and continuous improvement, you will help build a robust and trusted payments infrastructure.

🎯 Your responsibilities in this role

• Collaborate with engineers and product managers to serve as the final gatekeeper, ensuring the quality and readiness of features before they are released to customers.
• Executing on manual and automated tests in a cross-functional team to ship high quality and thoroughly tested features/modules.
• Document software defects and report them clearly and concisely (using relevant tools such as JIRA) to software engineers.
• Improve bug tracking and defects organization - by component, severity and days opened.
• Contribute, maintain and improve existing automation test suites.
• Facilitate proactive solutions by collecting and analyzing quality data.
• Monitor efforts to resolve product issues and track progress
• Ensure that the final product satisfies the product requirements and meet end-user expectations
• Spot areas for improvement to enhance the product's efficiency
• Research the current market for similar products and compare results between implementation of out application and propose areas to improve.

🔥 Must have job requirements

• 3+ years of proven experience as a QA engineer or relevant role.
• Prior experience testing mobile applications with Flutter, Appium (or another mobile-based framework) in a fast-scaling product
• Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills
• Great attention to detail and persistence to dwell deeper into complex technical issues to capture the depth of the problem
• Excellent data skills and understanding of data analysis/statistical methods

💪 Nice to have job requirements

• You have experience working in Fintech and Payments
• You have experience working in a tech startup
• Experience with security testing or prior experience in infosec
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and contribution of continuous QA effort
• Good API testing skills with tools such grafana k6, or another api automation tool.
• ISTQB Certified or an equivalent certification
• Hands-on experience with automated testing tools like Flutter test driver, appium, etc.
• In addition to English, you can also speak French or Swahili.

⭐️ Benefits

• 23 Days Off Plus Kenyan Bank Holidays: Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!
• Private Medical: Coverage for you and your dependents (optionally) from day one!
• Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month
• Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
• Free Lunch: Every day - that’s it!
• Monthly Birthday Party: Join fun social events every month to celebrate achievements, milestones and birthdays across the month