Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Quality Assurance Engineers Jobs in Kenya


Position Title: Quality Assurance Engineer

Location:
Nairobi

Number of Positions: 2

About Bridge International Academies

Bridge International Academies is a for-profit startup company revolutionizing education across Africa with a unique business model.

The company runs a large-scale network of low-cost primary schools in Kenya that significantly outperforms other primary schools in the same areas because of our “school in a box” systems.

Our schools profitably deliver this high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, which enable the schools to cover all their costs and create a profitable central organization at scale.

We have launched 37 schools in Kenya, we will double in size in the next 6 months, and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students across the continent.

About this position

We have and are continuing to develop one of the most sophisticated approaches to providing affordable education to MILLIONS of children in one of the most challenging environments in the world.

We have a need to recruit for the positions of Quality Assurance Engineers who will ensure that all software systems are of high quality and meet business needs.

Responsibilities (Functions and duties)
  • Writing test plans
  • Developing automated tests
  • Manual testing
  • Managing defect tracking tools
  • Providing second line technical support to in-house users of software developed by our team
  • Reporting progress and issues to test management and participate in test team status meetings as required
Specialist knowledge required:
  • Understanding of the software development life cycle
  • Designing and writing test plans for both automated and manual testing
  • Testing desktop, web and mobile applications
  • Basic understanding of quality assurance techniques and best practices
About You
  • The individual should be detail oriented
  • They should have good planning and organizing as well an analytical skills
  • Ability to take initiative and to coordinate projects
  • Good writing, oral communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to be flexible and adaptable
  • One (1) year of experience in software testing or software development
You can apply and view detailed job requisitions on the Careers page at www.bridgeinternationalacademies.com