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Quality Assurance Consultant - Regional

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Job Description

About the Company

Inkomoko supports entrepreneurs to grow their businesses in order to improve livelihoods, create jobs, and help communities thrive. Founded in 2012, Inkomoko has worked with more than 60,000 entrepreneurs across East Africa, including thousands of refugee entrepreneurs. 

Inkomoko provides a combination of training, consulting, access to finance, and market-level systems change. We are the largest lender to refugee entrepreneurs in Africa.  

Inkomoko has 450+ staff in 30 offices across Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Sudan. Through Inkomoko’s 2030 strategic plan, we are adding 4 additional countries to improve the lives of more than 7.6M people by serving more than 550,000 entrepreneurs and investing $150M into refugee & host communities across Africa.

Company Values

All staff at Inkomoko are connected to a shared set of organizational values:

  •  Purpose: be solutions-oriented, produce high-quality work, be a global leader. 
  • Achievement: push yourself to reach beyond what you previously thought possible. 
  • Improvement: be humble, engage in continuous growth through open & accurate feedback. 
  • Bravery: willing to take risks, create a safe space for others, be compassionate, inclusive. 
  • We Eat Goat:  we celebrate success and support each other in hard times in the spirit of Turikumwe/Tuko Pamoja/ Abren Nen (“We are together”)

 Inkomoko is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.  Refugees, women, and persons who reflect the diverse communities we serve are strongly encouraged to apply.

About the Opportunity

The Quality Assurance Consultant will play a key role in ensuring the reliability, functionality, accuracy, and security of our systems/platforms. You will be responsible for designing and executing test strategies, creating test plans and test cases, identifying and ensuring issues/system bugs are resolved in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

 

Roles & Responsibilities

Test Planning

  • Develop and implement functional, regression, and performance test plans and test cases.
  • Ensure that test cases are aligned with system requirements and maintain a traceability matrix.
  • Review business / technical requirements and convert them to QA test plans, cases, and scripts.

Testing Execution

  • Set up and maintain test environments and configurations.
  • Perform unit, functional, integration, system, security, and regression tests.
  • Execute tests to identify system defects, anomalies, and inconsistencies both on web and mobile applications.
  • Execute test cases and document defects, providing detailed information and working with the development team to ensure timely resolution.

Defect Management

  • Categorize and prioritize defects based on severity and impact.
  • Document, verify and discuss with the development team defects on Jira.

Test Reporting

  • Generate test reports with findings and recommendations.
  • Communicate test progress and results to project stakeholders.
  • Participate in test readiness and test closure activities, including test summary reports.

Collaboration

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, business analyst, and
  • project managers, to ensure the overall success of projects.
  • Conduct internal training on various products once completed.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to validate and document user acceptance testing (UAT) and sign offs.

Qualifications

Successful candidates will embody our organizational culture and mission to support entrepreneurs. Our work environment is fast-paced, positive, solutions-oriented, and we have very high standards. 

Qualifications include: 

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
  • 2+ years experience in Software testing and quality assurance
  • Proven experience in quality assurance and software testing, with a focus on core banking systems.
  • Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, test processes, and best practices.
  • Experience with test management tools and test automation frameworks e.g., JIRA.
  • Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
  • Relevant certifications (e.g., ISTQB) would be a plus.

Competencies

What You'll Get

This role is a tremendous opportunity to work in a high-growth, mission-driven organization. Our compensation includes a great working environment and competitive compensation:

  • Incredible company culture, including deep investment in your learning and growth.
  • Opportunity to work with a talented team of professionals across the region.

 

TO APPLY

If you’re excited about this role, please submit your application through the application portal. 

Tell us about what you’ll bring to this growing company.

Inkomoko is committed to justice, diversity, equity and inclusion.  As we seek to reflect the communities we serve, refugees and women are strongly encouraged to apply. As a company we have policies that ensure fair treatment in the application process. 

NB: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Employment is conditional upon successful background checks and other verification as needed.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and background screening checks. Inkomoko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual misconduct, fraud, or abuse. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

DISCLAIMER: 

Career Bridge Limited wishes to inform all applicants that we DO NOT CHARGE ANY FEE at any stage of the recruitment process. This includes the application, interview meeting, or processing stages.

Beware of fraudulent individuals or entities claiming to represent Career Bridge and asking for payment to facilitate recruitment. Career Bridge does not concern itself with information related to applicants' bank accounts.

If you encounter any suspicious activities or requests for payment, please report them immediately to info@careerbridgejobs.com to ensure a secure and transparent recruitment process.

We are committed to providing a fair, ethical, and merit-based recruitment process for all applicants.

   

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Inkomoko works with Micro and Small Entrepreneurs across Africa, including refugees By offering business advisory, access to finance, and market linkages, we support entrepreneurs to create thriving communities. Inkomoko started in Rwanda in 2012 and now has offices in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Sudan working with more than 10,000 entrepreneurs a year.

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