Chipper is the largest mobile cross-border money transfer platform in Africa. We are a small passionate team, dedicated to expanding financial inclusion in some of the global regions most in need of accessible, interoperable, easy-to-use, and affordable financial services.
We are recruiting to fill the position of:
Job Title: QA Manager
Location: Remote
Job Description
- As our first QA Manager you’ll start by defining our Testing Strategy, team and processes by working with cross-functional disciplines to help make sure we’re delivering useful, working products with every release.
- You’ll have an eye toward user experience, reliability, and real-world use cases.
- This role will foster technical and professional development of a new team of QA Analysts, Test Engineers and QA Managers while advocating for testing practices throughout the company.
- Our ideal candidate is an excellent communicator, skilled manager, highly diplomatic, process-oriented, and always on the lookout for new approaches to both testing and leadership.
- This role has a significant impact on the health of Chipper’s product as well as the success of testing within the company.
What You Will Be Doing
- Directly hire and manage QA Analysts, Test Engineers and QA Managers, helping them balance multiple short- and long-term projects.
- Work to refine and evangelize Chippers’s QA practices and processes.
- Support direct reports’ long-term career development, helping them build their skills in software testing and leadership.
- Represent QA Leadership within a cross-functional team, advocating for QA practices and people.
- Foster an environment of cross-team collaboration where questions are welcomed and success is celebrated.
- Advocate for QA’s involvement early in the planning and development phases to ensure successful implementation of all projects.
- Organize team communications and projects.
- Help to drive the interviewing and hiring of a diverse QA team.
- Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to leverage automation for scalable solutions to prevent regressions and ensure reliability of product.
What You Should Have
- You have several years of experience with full time testing and/or testing adjacent responsibilities.
- You have strong people management experience including experience managing.
- You can cultivate a healthy team culture of inclusion and equity.
- You recognize the value of transparent, honest communication and the necessity of sharing information.
- You’re patient, resilient, and willing to take on work even when it’s challenging, ambiguous, or intense.
- You’re willing to consider things from other perspectives and consider the impact on others.
- You have experience working within an Agile-based environment.
- You have a proven track record of effective performance management and coaching of individual contributors.
- You are a skilled written and verbal communicator, with both technical and non-technical audiences, upward and broadly across teams.
- You can balance app stability with the need to release features quickly.
- Understanding of testing strategies including technologies for automated testing such as Detox.
Ideally, You Should Have:
- Experience in defining and executing a mobile testing strategy.
- Willingness to dive in to execute your testing strategy.
- Experience in managing black box and white box testing.
- Fintech experience & a strong Interest in our products.
- A great understanding of the balance between automated and manual testing.
About Our Tech Stack
- Fullstack Typescript
- Fully automated CI/CD using Semaphore and Github Unit testing with Jest/Mocha.
Mobile:
- React Native – Android / iOS application
- Monitoring with BugSnag& Amplitude
- Global state management with Redux
- Chipper UI design system powered by: Styled Components &StoryBook
Backend:
- Node.js – service based architecture
- PostgreSQL application databases
- RabbitMQ for inter-server communication
- Server hosting on Heroku and Google Cloud Platform Monitoring with Datadog & Logz.io
- Snowflake for data warehousing and analysis
- Python for in-depth data analysis, transformation, and reporting.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online