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Senior Quality Assurance Engineer job at NUMIDA | Apply Now
Are you looking for Engineering jobs in Uganda 2025 today? then you might be interested in Senior Quality Assurance Engineer job at NUMIDA
About the Organisation
Numida is a pioneering Ugandan fintech company with a mission to empower small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Africa by providing accessible and unsecured working capital through digital technology. Founded in 2017, Numida has rapidly evolved into one of the leading providers of digital loans to underserved entrepreneurs, gaining recognition for its innovative approach to financial inclusion and data-driven credit assessment. The company fosters a dynamic and impact-oriented work culture that values transparency, creativity, and continuous learning, offering employees meaningful career growth, competitive benefits, and flexible work arrangements.
Numida’s business model leverages mobile technology and proprietary algorithms to disburse fast, affordable loans via a user-friendly app, enabling over 40,000 businesses across Uganda to thrive. With an expanding reach across East Africa, Numida is guided by core values of empowerment, integrity, innovation, and client-centeredness. The company also upholds strong corporate social responsibility by supporting local communities through financial literacy programs and inclusive economic development initiatives. For more information, visit their website at www.numida.com.
Kampala, Uganda
Full Time
Job Title
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer job at NUMIDA
NUMIDA
Job Description
NUMIDA
Position: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Location: Uganda (Kampala); Kenya (Nairobi); Remote (within 2 hours of EAT)
Reports to: Director of Engineering
Expected Start Date: February 2, 2026
Apply By: December 15, 2025
About the role
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at Numida, you will play a pivotal role in building a world-class QA function from the ground up. You will lead efforts to ensure our products are reliable, scalable, and consistently deliver exceptional experiences across multiple markets.
This is a high-impact role for someone who wants to move beyond manual testing and spearhead a modern QA practice – introducing automation frameworks, refining processes, and driving a shift-left testing culture across Engineering.
You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to make sure new features are built with quality in mind from day one. Your contribution will safeguard the experiences of tens of thousands of entrepreneurs relying on Numida to operate and grow their businesses.
If you are passionate about quality, automation, and building robust systems that scale, this role is your opportunity to make a meaningful difference while shaping the future of financial services in Africa.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
Drive Quality Assurance as a Core Engineering Function: Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of QA processes, standards, and strategy across Numida.
Advocate for quality-first development practices and contribute to key architectural and planning discussions.
Build and Maintain Automated Testing Systems: Select, configure, and manage QA automation frameworks for both mobile (React Native) and web applications. Develop automated test suites – Ul tests, API tests, performance tests, regression packs – to support rapid release cycles. Ensure automated tests are integrated into CI/CD pipelines for consistent and reliable deployment validation.
Own Testing for Critical Features and Releases: Conduct manual exploratory testing where necessary, especially for complex workflows or new product areas. Define and maintain test plans, test cases, and acceptance criteria in collaboration with Product and Engineering. Ensure all planned releases meet quality benchmarks before going to production. Write clear, structured bug reports, testing documentation, and regression summaries to support fast, high-quality release cycles.
Champion Observability and Defect Prevention: Identify patterns in defects and work closely with engineers to address root causes. Introduce tools and best practices for monitoring, stability metrics, and post-release validation. Use data – defect frequency, release failure patterns, incident trends – to proactively influence product and engineering decision-making.
Foster Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with QA automation tools, testing methodologies, and industry best practices. Train and mentor other/junior engineers to adopt testing best practices, helping to build a quality-driven engineering culture.
Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, and Support teams to translate business requirements into clear, testable scenarios. Be a bridge between engineering and support when diagnosing user-reported issues.
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Qualifications, Education and Competencies
Experience:
Deep QA Expertise You bring at least 5 years of professional experience in software quality assurance, with at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity. You have a track record of raising quality standards and improving release stability in fast-paced environments.
Automation-First Mindset
You have strong hands-on experience with modern QA automation tools such as:
Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, or similar
API testing tools such as Postman, pytest, REST Assured, etc.
Integrating test automation into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab, etc.)
Mobile + Backend Testing Experience
You have successfully tested:
Mobile applications (bonus if React Native)
Backend APls (Python/Django, FastAPl, Flask, etc.)
Cloud-based platforms (AWS experience is a strong plus)
Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills You are highly skilled at diagnosing issues, isolating defects, and working with engineers to identify root causes quickly.
Clear and Effective Communicator You can articulate risks, quality concerns, and technical concepts to stakeholders at all levels-including Engineers, PMs, and Leadership.
Adaptable and Resilient You thrive in fast-moving environments, embrace change, and approach ambiguity with curiosity and structure.
You’ll stand out for this role if you have
Experience setting up QA automation from scratch
Experience with performance/load testing tools (Locust, JMeter)
Knowledge of mobile device farms and automated mobile testing environments
Experience working in FinTech or other high-reliability industries
Familiarity with observability tools (Sentry, Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch)
Experience contributing to product release processes and release management
Why Join Numida?
At Numida, you’ll join a team that’s passionate about transforming financial services and making a lasting impact. You’ll have the opportunity to work on challenging, meaningful projects that empower entrepreneurs across Africa. We offer competitive compensation, a collaborative work environment, and a culture that values continuous learning and innovation.
This role offers a unique opportunity to build the QA function for a fast-growing fintech – shaping tools, culture, automation systems, and processes that will serve Numida for years to come.
How to Apply
Ready to shape the future of digital financial services? Click this link to submit your application.
