Software Test Engineer

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 will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻

1. You will be owning features through inception, design feedback, implementation, and launch. This will include building test plans for new features and improvising on existing test plans for feature updates and customer feedback.
2. You will collaborate with Product Designers, Product Managers, Backend Engineers, Data Engineers, and Customer Support

What do I need? 🤓

1. Strong quality sense and experience working closely with web/mobile development teams
2. Excellent communication skills and passion for tough technical problems
3. Attention to detail and voice of customer experience
4. Familiarity with Agile frameworks and regression testing is a plus
5. Experience in championing customer feedback post-launch and bringing it to the attention of relevant teams
6. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience

Brownie points 🍰

1. Understanding of the importance of test plans and how to approach writing informative bug reports

Feel free to apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. As long as you're a quick learner, and are excited about changing the status quo for tech recruitment, we're happy to support you as you come up to speed with our tech stack.

• Managing the solving of problems concerning the test automation infrastructure
• Understand and maintain Test Automation Frameworks.
• Follow the coding standards and code walk through.
• Maintain Automation Standards and Processes documentation.
• Write automated test scripts under the direction of the Test Automation Lead.
• Ability to work independently on tasks / modules assigned related to automation
• Monitoring of and reporting on the progress of the test automation process
• Reporting on the quality of the test object
• Raise risks on time and provide alternate solutions to mitigate the risk
• Advice and support for the implementation of all types of tools

• Defining, implementing and executing regression and stress automation tests focused on embedded software and device firmware level
• Analyzing automation test results for failures, identifying issue trends and quantifying impact
• Isolating and reporting defects effectively quantifying customer impact and verifying fixes through regression testing and other test methodologies
• Working cross-functionally with other QA teams, Developers and Project Managers

Desired Candidate Profile

• BE– CS/ECE, MS, ME, MTech
• 2+ years of QA experience, preferably on consumer hardware/ software products
• Automation experience in modern scripting or compiled languages (Python, JavaScript, C etc.)
• Experience with hardware and/ or software development lifecycle processes
• Knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripting
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Deep understanding of SQA methodologies and practices
• Ability to solve hard problems with creative and sustainable solutions
• Be detail-oriented and strive for the best product for our customers
• Self-motivated with the ability to drive features to delivery
• Should have strong hands on experience in developing applications
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly    

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.