Quality Assurance Engineer - Remote

Overview

Bamboo is building Africa's best investment infrastructure to help Africans grow wealth. Since our launch in 2019, we've built a platform that allows both individual and institutional investors access to the US stock market through our platform. We also have other exciting assets (including Nigerian Stocks and fixed-income assets) on our platforms to help Africans change their mindset towards investing and to position Africa as a continent with huge investment potential.

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.

In Short

• 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.
• Set up and maintain testing environments.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.