Senior QA Engineer Jobs – Educate!

Job Title: Senior QA Engineer

Organisation: Educate!

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About Organisation:

Educate! prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today’s economy. We tackle youth unemployment by partnering with schools and governments to reform what schools teach and how they teach it, so that students in Africa have the skills to attain further education, overcome gender inequities, start businesses, get jobs and drive development in their communities. Our model is delivered through practically-trained teachers and youth mentors. Educate!’s goal is to make this practical, skills-based model part of national education systems.

Job Summary: Educate!, the largest youth skills service provider in East Africa, is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join our ambitious and cross-functional Technology team. We are looking for a quality-obsessed engineer who is passionate about ensuring our technology products deliver reliable, impactful experiences for the youth we serve.

In this role, you’ll be the driving force behind quality across our products—partnering closely with the Product Owner to define what “done” looks like, owning hands-on QA review, and helping our engineering team build a culture where quality is everyone’s responsibility. You’ll establish QA standards from the ground up, evaluate and implement end-to-end testing tools, and embed automated testing into our development pipelines.

This is a high-impact role on a growing Technology team. You’ll join a motivated, passionate, overachieving international team with a vision to design solutions that will impact millions of youth annually across Africa.

You are the right fit for this role if you:

Are passionate about building reliable, high-quality technology product

Take ownership of quality and hold yourself and others to a high bar

Are collaborative and thrive working closely with product and engineering stakeholders

Have independently driven QA practices and testing strategy in a team

Have a proactive mindset—you see gaps in quality and take initiative to address them

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review & Release Readiness
• Partner with the Product Owner to define acceptance criteria, validate feature completeness, and ensure releases meet quality standards before they reach the youth we serve. This is the primary focus of the role.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to establish a shared definition of “done” for features and releases
• Perform hands-on exploratory, functional, and regression testing of new features and bug fixes
• Triage, document, and verify bugs throughout the sprint cycle
• Provide a final quality sign-off before code is deployed to production
• Communicate release readiness and surface risks to the team in a timely manner
• QA Standards & Strategy
• Define and document testing standards, methodologies, and quality benchmarks for the engineering team. Build the QA playbook so that quality is repeatable, scalable, and not dependent on tribal knowledge.
• Establish test plans, test case templates, and acceptance criteria standards
• Define severity and priority frameworks for bug classification
• Document QA processes and best practices for the team to follow
• Continuously improve QA processes based on retrospectives and release outcomes
• E2E Testing Tooling & Framework Selection
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement the right end-to-end testing tools and frameworks based on the team’s automation maturity, technical stack, and maintenance capacity.
• Research and compare E2E testing frameworks based on team needs and product requirements
• Assess the appropriate level of automation given the team’s size, velocity, and technical constraints
• Drive adoption of selected tools and provide guidance to engineers on writing E2E tests
• Own the E2E test suite and ensure it remains reliable, maintainable, and valuable
• Testing Infrastructure & Developer Accountability
• Support the integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and hold the engineering team accountable for writing and maintaining their own unit and integration tests. Quality is a team effort—this function ensures it stays that way.
• Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to run on every commit, PR, or deploy
• Define and track test coverage expectations for unit and integration tests
• Review test plans and advocate for testability in code reviews and architecture discussions
• Establish quality gates that prevent untested or undertested code from reaching production
• Develop quality assurance procedures in collaboration with the Product Owner and development team

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or any other Technology-related course, and a minimum of 5 years of work experience in a QA or Software Quality Engineering role
• Strong hands-on experience with both manual and automated testing methodologies
• Experience evaluating and implementing E2E testing frameworks
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and integrating automated tests into deployment pipelines
• Experience defining QA standards, test plans, and quality processes for a team
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, particularly with product and engineering stakeholders
• Experience working with program delivery and data collection platforms such as USSD, SMS, WhatsApp, etc. is a plus
• Basic knowledge of project management tools such as JIRA or equivalent
• Experience working with a startup is a plus
• Fits our Five Culture Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and Interested applicants should apply online at the link below.

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Level of Education: bachelor degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60