Royal Media Services is looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to be based in one of our subsidiary Companies. He/She will develop, apply and maintain quality standards for company software products with adherence to both internal and external standards. He/She develops and executes software test plans. Analyzes and writes test standards and procedures. Maintains documentation of test results.
Analyzes test results and recommends corrective actions.
Responsibilities
- Meeting
with the software/product designers to determine quality assurance
parameters
- Reviewing
requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide
timely and meaningful feedback
- Create
detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases
- Estimate,
prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities
- Design,
develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools
- Identify,
record, document thoroughly and track bugs
- Perform
thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
- Develop
and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet client
needs
- Liaise
with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify
system requirements
- Monitor
debugging process results
- Investigate
the causes of non-conforming software and train users to implement
solutions
- Track
quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
- Stay
up-to-date with new testing tools and test strategies
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
degree in computer science, computer engineering, product management or
other related discipline
- Must
have hands-on experience (minimum 3 years) in manual and/or automated
testing of web/mobile apps and APIs
- Must
be familiar with relevant tools and technologies: Jira, Confluence,
GitLab, cypress, JAVA, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Proven
ability to write test plans and test cases based on product requirements
and design specifications.
- Complete
and thorough knowledge of the SDLC, STLC and testing methodologies
- Ability
to work effectively with Developers, Product Managers, and System
Administrators.
- Self-starter
who learns quickly and takes immediate ownership of projects with little
supervision.
- Minimum
3 years of experience working with product owners / customers / developers
- Needs
to have Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong
attention-to-detail, analytical skills, and creative problem-solving
skills.
- Previous
experience as a QA engineer
How to Apply
If you are interested
and qualified, please email your CV and a one-page statement explaining why you
are the ideal candidate for the position to recruitment@royalmedia.co.ke by Friday 3rd December 2021
Clearly cite Job Ref No.
HRD/CAL/SQAE/12/2021 as your email subject.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
Royal Media Services is
looking for a Data Analyst Lead to be based in one of
our subsidiary Companies.
He/She will support our Product, Sales,
Leadership and Marketing teams with insights gained from analyzing a wide
variety of company data.
The ideal candidate will
analyze, process, and model data then interpret the results to create
actionable plans for the company. He or she is expected to utilize his/her
skills in both technology and social science to find trends and manage data,
then utilize industry knowledge, contextual understanding, skepticism of
existing assumptions – to uncover solutions to our business challenges.
You shall be expected to
formulate strategies to collect, interpret and make sense of messy,
unstructured data, from sources such as smart devices, social media feeds, and
emails that don’t neatly fit into a database.
Responsibilities
- Working with stakeholders to
identify opportunities for leveraging company data and improve business
outcomes
- Mine and analyze data from
company databases to drive innovation, optimization and improvement of
product development, marketing techniques and business strategies
- Employ sophisticated analytical
methods, machine learning and statistical methods to prepare data forin
predictive and prescriptive modeling
- Perform exploratory data
analysis (EDA) to determine how to handle missing data and to look for
trends and/or opportunities
- Discovering new algorithms to
solve problems and build programs to automate repetitive work
- Communicate predictions and
findings to management, marketing and other stakeholders through effective
data visualizations and reports
- Research new ways for modelling
and predictive behavior for large scale projects.
- Lead data mining and collection
procedures.
Qualifications
- Degree in Computer Science,
Data Science, Statistics, Applied Math or any other quantitative field.
- 3+ years of experience
manipulating data sets and building statistical models.
- Proven experience using
statistical computer languages, preferably Python and R, to manipulate
dataand draw insights from large data sets.
- Hands-on experience with big
data processing engines like Apache Spark
- Experience
visualizing/presenting data for stakeholders using: Power BI, Data Studio
etc.
- Have great communication skills
and are a strong advocate of using data science to drive decisions
- Commercial understanding,
strategic and creative thinking.
- Ability to prioritize and
handle multiple projects meeting tight deadlines.
- Strong drive to learn and
master new technologies and techniques.
- Results-orientation and
self-motivation, taking accountability for business performance issues.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Strong organizational and
leadership skills
- A business mindset
How to Apply
If you are interested and qualified, please email your CV and a
one-page statement explaining why you are the ideal candidate for the position
to recruitment@royalmedia.co.ke by Friday
3rd December 2021
Clearly cite Job Ref No.
HRD/CAL/DAL/12/2021 as your email subject.
Only shortlisted candidates will be
contacted.
