4 months ago
Nairobi, KenyaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test frameworks using Playwright and related tools.
- Lead test automation strategy and align testing goals with QA and development objectives.
- Conduct functional, regression, integration, UI, accessibility, usability, and API testing across application modules.
- Validate SQL data integrity, analyze backend processes, troubleshoot data issues, and test authentication flows.
- Manage and optimize testing environments using Docker Compose and CI/CD pipelines.
- Review code and test implementations for best practices, maintainability, and QA standards.
- Create and maintain test plans, test cases, test reports, and coverage documentation.
- Mentor junior QA engineers and provide guidance on automation, analysis, and debugging.
- Identify coverage gaps, improve testing processes, and drive automation efficiency.
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software.
- Conduct root cause analysis and contribute to postmortem reviews.
- Own the testing process from strategy through execution and reporting.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in automated testing with TypeScript or JavaScript.
- Expert-level SQL proficiency, including complex query design, optimization, and data validation scripts.
- Extensive Playwright experience, including building scalable and maintainable test frameworks from scratch.
- Strong understanding and application of object-oriented programming principles in test automation architecture.
- Proficiency with Git and branching strategies for collaborative test development.
- Deep familiarity with Docker Compose and multi-service testing environments.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and experience integrating automated tests with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
- Advanced API testing experience, including REST and GraphQL testing, authentication validation, and reusable API test utilities.
- Strong experience with SQL and ORM tools such as Prisma for validating data integrity.
- Ability to evaluate UI/UX, accessibility, and design consistency.
- Ability to read frontend TypeScript and identify automation risks.
- Working knowledge of Java for analyzing backend logic, logs, and integration points.
- Experience with Selenium or similar automation tools and testing strategies.
- Advanced log analysis and debugging skills for distributed systems.
- Understanding of token validation, authentication flows, and access control.
- English proficiency at upper-intermediate level or higher.
- Strong communication, mentoring, QA leadership, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement skills.
- Experience testing financial or high-risk transactional applications is highly valued.
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About watu
Watu is a Nairobi-headquartered asset finance company that provides loans for mobility and connectivity assets, such as motorcycles and smartphones, to unbanked and underserved consumers and micro-entrepreneurs. It earns revenue from loan interest and fees and supports digital repayments and compliance services around the financed assets. Founded in 2015, Watu operates in eight African countries and reports issuing over 2 million loans.