QUALITY ASSURANCE EXECUTIVE

We are looking for a QA Tester to assess software quality through manual and automation testing. You will be responsible for finding and reporting bugs and glitches.

In this role, you should have a keen eye for detail and excellent communication skills. If you are also competent in executing test cases and are passionate about quality, we’d like to meet you.

Ultimately, you will ensure that our products, applications, and systems work correctly.

Responsibilities

Review and analyze system specifications

Collaborate with QA Engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans

Execute test cases (manual or automated) and analyze results

Evaluate product code according to specifications

Create logs to document testing phases and defects

Report bugs and errors to development teams

Help troubleshoot issues

Conduct post-release/ post-implementation testing

Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle

Requirements

Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Tester of a minimum 4 years

Must have knowledge in API and Selenium Automation

Must have knowledge of SQL and Linux

Working knowledge of test management Excellent communication skills

Strong organizational skills

Base Criteria

Candidate should be comfortable with APP and UI Testing (Must)

Candidate should be able to write excellent Test cases (+ve and -ve)

Candidate should be good at logical implementations

Candidate should be good in Communication and work approach

Candidate should have a good solution-oriented approach

Candidate worked with a premium Institution or premium product/app will be a great plus

At Verto, we’re passionate about helping businesses in Emerging markets reach the world.

What first started life as a FX solution for trading Nigerian Naira has now become a market-leading platform, changing the way thousands of businesses transfer money in and out of Emerging Markets.

We believe that where you do business shouldn’t determine how successful you are, or your ability to scale. Millions of companies a day have to juggle long settlement periods, high transaction fees, and issues accessing liquidity in order to trade with African businesses. We’re on a mission to change this by creating equal access to easy payment and liquidity solutions that are already a given in developed markets.

We’re not alone in realising the opportunity and need to solve for emerging markets. We’re backed by world-class investors including Y-Combinator, Quona, and MEVP, power payments for some of the most disruptive start-ups in the world, and have a list of accolades from leading publications, including being voted ‘Fintech Start Up of the Year’ at Fintech Awards London 2022.

Each year, we process billions of dollars of payments and provide companies with solutions that help them save money, automate processes, and grow, but we’re only just getting started.

We’re seeking a Senior QA Engineer with a mix of Manual and Automation expertise who is excited to tackle challenges in delivering seamless and robust software solutions. In this role, you will be expected to achieve key milestones such as:

• Developing and maintaining automated test frameworks and scripts to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve critical bugs and performance issues, reducing time-to-market..
• Scaling test automation coverage.

As a QA Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing Verto’s platform reliability and user experience, leveraging your expertise in test manual test suite, and Selenium + Python based automation to deliver measurable impact.

In this role, you will:

• Design and Implement Automation Frameworks: Build reusable, efficient, and scalable test automation frameworks tailored for web applications using Selenium and Python.
• Automate End-to-End Testing: Develop and execute automated test scripts for functional, regression, and performance testing, ensuring comprehensive test coverage.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, define test cases, and resolve defects.
• Continuously Enhance Test Coverage: Expand automation test coverage to improve reliability and reduce manual testing efforts.
• Monitor and Report: Develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms to track test execution, defects, and overall quality metrics.
• Maintain and Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Integrate test automation suites into CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and consistent deployments.
• Ensure Platform Stability: Identify and address bottlenecks, flaky tests, or automation failures to maintain test suite reliability.
• Stay Ahead of Trends: Evaluate and implement the latest tools, technologies, and best practices to keep Verto’s testing processes cutting-edge.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Building and maintaining high-quality automation frameworks tailored for scaling.
• Conducting thorough testing of critical features and APIs to identify issues proactively.
• Ensuring automated scripts are maintained and consistently executed in CI pipelines.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to identify testing bottlenecks and recommending solutions.
• Delivering well-documented, maintainable code and test artifacts for seamless knowledge sharing.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Education: A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is required.
• Experience: Proven experience as a QA Automation Engineer with a strong focus on Selenium and Python.
• Technical Expertise:
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Pytest, Robot Framework, or similar.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
• Strong understanding of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience testing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to debug and troubleshoot complex issues in test automation environments.
• Collaboration: Strong communication and team collaboration skills to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

What you need to have:

• Lead and manage a team that:
• Reviews and refines software requirements.
• Drafts and executes test plans and test cases.
• Identifies and drafts steps to reproduce defects utilizing our defect tracking system, JIRA.
• Enters and tracks defects to closure.
• Utilizes testing tools to increase the effectiveness of testing.
• Maintains test environments that mimic our production systems.
• Maintains and updates Selenium driven UI automation test cases.
• Maintains and updates ReadyAPI API automation test cases.
• Maintains and updates manual test cases.
• Maintains and updates JMeter performance/load test cases.
• Coach, mentor, and assist the team in performing their duties as needed.
• Provide formal QA approval and reporting for each release.
• Operate within the SAFe Agile methodology.
• Coordinate with other QA teams across the company.

• Experience leading a SQA or Software Development team
• Experience managing projects and processes cross-functionally
• Comfortable working in a continually changing and dynamic environment and driving top issues to resolution
• Proven track record of attracting, hiring, motivating and developing the best quality-minded individuals
• Excellent cross-functional communication and influencing skills
• In-depth knowledge and experience in one or more of the following technologies: Java, Python, Selenium, JMeter, ReadyAPI
• Automation planning, execution, and triage for projects on multiple Platforms.
• Excellent presentation skills, distilling complex analysis and concepts into concise business-focused takeaways
• In-depth knowledge and experience in identity management including OpenID Connect, SAML2, OAuth2, and SCIM.
• In-depth knowledge and experience of application security testing.
• Unix command line scripting skills

QA Engineer

You will impact our users directly! This job requires you to constantly hit the ground running and your ability to learn quickly and work on disparate and overlapping tasks will define your success. Your job will often require coordination between multiple Development, Product,  Operations and Business groups, so you get to experience a breadth of impact with various groups.

The ideal candidate must be detail oriented, obsessed with customer experience, have superior verbal and written communication skills, strong organizational skills, able to juggle multiple tasks at once, able to work independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure. You must be able to identify problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages. You must be able to accurately prioritize projects, make sound judgments, work to improve the customer experience, and get the right things done.

Position Overview

• You will be responsible for all testing of an entire project across various platforms
• You will own the development and execution of test plans and test cases for multiple features of an application
• You will develop and maintain testing strategies, including manual and automation testing.
• You will ensure comprehensive test coverage by working closely with the product and engineering teams to prioritize testing execution and report on test execution progress and results.
• You will participate in design and specification reviews, and use this information to design test plans.
• You will promote QA productivity through automation, tools, and other best practices.
• You will promote a culture of quality throughout the organization.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ year of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
• Experience in manual testing across android app, mobile web and desktop applications
• Bachelor's Degree
• Expertise in test methodologies and test processes.
• Ability to understand technical specifications and generate test cases from them
• Good in communicating with developers and technical leaders, even if they are remote.
• Strong organizational skills, ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously and synthesize the results
• Shows creativity and initiative to improve product coverage and effectiveness.
• Should be able to generate test reports and dashboards for management communication.

We're looking for a QA Engineer to help with manual testing as well as introduce automation to our processes where possible. Candidates will need to be familiar with and able to write scripts, set up automation processes, and familiarise themselves with the products we build (web and mobile apps).

• The role will also require you to document test cases with an understanding of what the product does and how the end-user might approach it.
• Understand functional and non-functional testing requirements of web and mobile applications.
• Document functional testing scenarios and cases, for manual testing of API functionality using Postman and manual testing of User Interface elements (web, mobile, and mobile web)
• Identify or create data for testing
• Execute test cases and record status
• Log defects identified and track them through retesting and closure
• Debug using ADB commands and tools like Charles Proxy to primarily identify the root cause of failures.

Skill:

• Good understanding of mobile and web applications functionality
• Good understanding of how APIs work functionally
• Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Experience in writing clear, concise, and comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Hands-on experience with both white box and black box testing
• Non-functional testing of mobile applications including but not limited to battery analysis, GPU overdraw, responsiveness, etc.