QA Automation Engineer Job at Aza Finance

AZA Finance is an established provider of currency trading and cross-border payment solutions which accelerate global access to frontier markets through an innovative infrastructure. By leveraging cutting edge technology in our flagship products, AZA can significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to, from and across frontier markets. Our API product provides both wholesale currency purchase and retail settlement via our robust API while our Web-Based platform is our B2B over-the-counter product that caters to businesses with wholesale currency needs, especially those paying partners and suppliers.

Our partners utilise our hybrid financial infrastructure and deep local knowledge to manage liquidity and send payments to dozens of bank networks, mobile money operators and payments aggregators across Africa. Licensed by the UK’s FCA and the Bank of Spain, AZA is a market-maker in every major African currency. AZA was founded in 2013 and now has offices in Nairobi, Lagos, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Kampala and Dakar.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: QA Automation Engineer

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria (Hybrid)
Job type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are passionate technologists who believe in making a difference to the lives of those living in emerging markets. We aim to change the landscape of finance and remittance.
• Our technical team is a group of skilled self-reliant engineers that have the ability to work together to solve complex problems and provide simple solutions for our customers. We are looking for a QA Automation Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in one of our offices.
• This role is open to candidates in London, Lagos and Nairobi

Responsibilities

• Identify testing requirements for development workloads.
• Testing software to identify defects and help troubleshoot issues.
• Produce and execute test plans, scripts, cases, acceptance criteria and scenarios.
• Ensure high quality and accuracy is maintained throughout the development lifecycle.
• Identify the opportunities for automated testing and implementing tests applicably for user testing, end-to-end integration testing and unit testing.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of both Javascript and Ruby.
• Good knowledge of source control using Git.
• Good knowledge of cloud providers, especially AWS.
• Familiarity with container frameworks, especially Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with implementing test automation in Travis CI and AWS CodePipeline.
• Familiarity with the agile development methodology, specifically Scrum.
• Good knowledge of software deployment tooling and orchestration.
• Good knowledge of databases systems, especially PostgreSQL.
• Familiarity with deploying and managing applications on the cloud.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Casual work environment
• Great work-life balance
• We value autonomy
• Environmental-friendly (we try to use as less paper as possible!)
• Opportunity for growth for all our employees….and more!