Cellulant is a mobile commerce and content company that manages delivers and bills for digital content and commerce service actualized over telecom network. The industry defines this segment as mobile Value Added Service (VAS) or Wireless Premium Rate Service Provider (PRSP) We are a member company of the Cellulant group which has commercial services running in Kenya, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia, South Africa , Uganda , Botswana and the EU. Cellulant Nigeria have rolled an innovative and top-class business and technolgy solutions to banks, multinational companies like Guinness Nigeria Plc being her technology partner in the 'Guinness Greatest Eleven Nigerian football legend’o, Pepsi Sponsored FIFA U-17 football tournament hosted by South Korea, Procter and Gamble(P&G), Nigerian Breweries, automobile giants like Toyota Nigeria Limited, Fast moving and consumer goods (FMCGs) companies like Unilever, Mr. Biggs and a host of other companies like Promasidor, Smithline and Beechams SKG etc.
Role Purpose:
- As a Software Test Engineer, you will utilize your experience and technical expertise to make your mark in our software development life cycle. This role offers the chance to create an impact where you will liaise with talented engineers and business experts.
- Your understanding of the end-to-end testing life cycle will see you work seamlessly with a broad cross-section of colleagues, product owners, and stakeholders while contributing to process implementation improvements for advice delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Expanding our existing test automation framework and test coverage.
- Developing new tests and tools for our core products, backend APIs, services, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborating with product and development teams to understand how new features should be tested and contribute to automated tests for these new features.
- Working with engineers to inject testing earlier into the software development process.
- Promoting best practices in code health, testing, testability, and maintainability in collaboration with the wider Quality Engineering department.
- Analyzing complex software systems and collaborating to improve overall design, testability, and quality.
- Striving for the fastest feedback possible through parallelization and robust automation infrastructure.
- Configuring automated tests to execute reliably and efficiently in CI/CD environments.
- Tracking and communicating test results in a timely, effective, and automated manner.
Performance Measures:
- Test Coverage: Unit, Automation, Requirements Coverage
- Test Tracking & Efficiency: Passed/Failed/Blocked Test Case %, Fixed Defect %, Accepted/Rejected Defect %, Defects deferred %
- Schedule Variance
- Test Effort & Test Design Efficiency
- Average Time to Fix Bugs
Other Metrics:
- Average CE/EE master end-to-end test suite execution duration per month
- Ratio of quarantine vs total end-to-end tests in master per month
- Successful vs failed CE/EE master pipelines per month
- New issue first triage SLO
- Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Must-Have Experience:
- Strong automation testing skills with frameworks/tools such as Selenium, Appium, JUnit, TestNG, Python.
- Expertise in backend API and service testing with tools like Postman or REST Assured.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills for cross-functional work.
- Test design and testability expertise, including designing for complex systems.
- Strong grasp of QA best practices and the concept of the test pyramid.
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities for identifying potential issues and improvements.
- Proven ability in test result tracking, reporting, and metrics-driven testing.
- Continuous learning mindset and adaptability to new tools and trends.
Experience That Will Count in Your Favour:
- Test framework development.
- Performance and load testing with tools like JMeter, Gatling, or LoadRunner.
- Security testing using OWASP ZAP or Burp Suite.
- Test-Driven Development (TDD) experience.
- Cloud and distributed systems testing (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker).
- Continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines.
- Mobile testing on Android/iOS using Appium, XCTest, or Espresso.
- Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- Leadership and mentoring experience.
Nice-to-Have Experience:
- Test data and environment management.
- Advanced test reporting and metrics dashboards.
- Exploratory testing.
- Test automation infrastructure design.
- Test process improvement initiatives.
- Test data analysis and insights.
- Test strategy and planning.
Qualifications:
- At least 5 years' experience in automated testing.
- ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Level or higher.
- Degree in Computer Science or related field.
- Working knowledge of Docker.
- Familiarity with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, GCP, or AWS.
- Experience with CI tools (Jenkins, Travis, GitLab).
- Hands-on experience with Python, Selenium, Java, XML, SQL, JavaScript.
- REST API testing tools (Postman, SOAP UI, JMeter).
- Exceptional communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to deliver in high-pressure environments.
- Strong problem-solving and teamwork skills.
Skills:
- Quality planning & test coverage improvement.
- Test stability, triage, and failure analysis.
- Contribution to test tooling and framework enhancements.
- Test environment management.
- Task ownership, project scheduling, and OKRs.
- Knowledge sharing and documentation.
- Domain-specific product expertise.
Personal Attributes:
- Attention to detail.
- Problem-solving and critical thinking.
- Self-motivation and proactiveness.
- Adaptability and flexibility.
- Collaboration and teamwork.
- Strong time management and organization.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Leadership and mentoring capability.
- Commitment to quality and detail orientation.
- Curiosity and continuous learning mindset.
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