Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Nairobi, Kenya
Contracted
Experienced
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Reports to: Manager - Software Quality Assurance.
Location: Nairobi - Kenya .
About Living Goods
Living Goods endeavours to improve access to essential healthcare services in underserved regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We empower Community Health Workers (CHWs) with digital tools that enable them to deliver door-to-door care. CHWs use a mobile app to track pregnancies, diagnose and treat common infectious diseases like malaria and pneumonia, monitor disease outbreaks, and follow up with families. Real-time data also supports performance monitoring and impact assessment. By integrating tech-based solutions into community health systems, Living Goods fosters better health outcomes, demonstrating the power of digital health in transforming healthcare delivery in resource-constrained settings.
We’re seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to help ensure the quality, functionality, and reliability of our digital health solutions. You will work on a variety of platforms, including mobile and web apps, ETL data pipelines, dashboards, and learning systems. This is an opportunity to lead quality initiatives, mentor junior team members, and directly support improved health outcomes across Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.
Roles and Responsibilities
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience, including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.
Reports to: Manager - Software Quality Assurance.
Location: Nairobi - Kenya .
About Living Goods
Living Goods endeavours to improve access to essential healthcare services in underserved regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We empower Community Health Workers (CHWs) with digital tools that enable them to deliver door-to-door care. CHWs use a mobile app to track pregnancies, diagnose and treat common infectious diseases like malaria and pneumonia, monitor disease outbreaks, and follow up with families. Real-time data also supports performance monitoring and impact assessment. By integrating tech-based solutions into community health systems, Living Goods fosters better health outcomes, demonstrating the power of digital health in transforming healthcare delivery in resource-constrained settings.
We’re seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to help ensure the quality, functionality, and reliability of our digital health solutions. You will work on a variety of platforms, including mobile and web apps, ETL data pipelines, dashboards, and learning systems. This is an opportunity to lead quality initiatives, mentor junior team members, and directly support improved health outcomes across Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Define and execute comprehensive testing strategies across our health technology portfolio, ensuring reliability for community health workers in the field.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle.
- Build and maintain automated testing frameworks for mobile (Appium), web (Selenium/Playwright/Cypress), and API testing.
- Lead performance testing initiatives to ensure our applications scale for thousands of health workers.
- Conduct root cause analysis of production issues and implement preventive measures.
- Manage test data strategies while maintaining privacy and compliance standards.
- Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable deployments.
- Ensure test scenarios reflect real-world community health worker workflows and field conditions.
- Drive knowledge sharing and technical documentation across our global teams.
- Strong automation experience: Appium (mobile), Selenium/Playwright/Cypress (web), and Postman/REST Assured (API).
- Performance testing experience using Apache JMeter; familiarity with k6, Locust, or LoadRunner is a plus.
- Proficiency in Java; experience with JavaScript or Python is a plus.
- Solid understanding of SQL for data validation.
- Experience with test management tools (TestRail) and issue tracking (Jira).
- Working knowledge of Agile methodologies and CI/CD practices.
- Experience testing dashboards and data visualization platforms.
- Understanding of data warehouses and ETL pipeline testing.
- Experience with data warehouse and ETL pipeline testing.
- Dashboard/visualization testing expertise.
- Docker and containerization knowledge.
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, digital health, or a related field.
- 3-5 years in software quality assurance, preferably in mobile or health technology.
- Proven track record leading QA efforts for medium- to large-scale applications.
- QA certifications are an added advantage.
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience, including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.
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