Senior QA Engineer

"ALWAYS PAMOJA" – At Zola Electric, we are a global team united by one mission: achieving Energy Equality through Enterprise Technology. Originating near the Serengeti, Tanzania, our diverse team has grown across 4 continents, embracing over 13 nationalities. We're committed to solving the energy access challenge, impacting vulnerable communities, and striving for equality across various sectors. Join us in our journey to empower communities in over 10 countries, reaching nearly 3 million people with reliable, affordable, and smart power solutions.

Job Role Overview:At Zola Electric, the role of a Senior QA Engineer is integral to building and delivering our enterprise technology platform, which forms the backbone of our business. In this role you would lead the quality practices and testing effort for the entire end to end stack of our platform including our hardware products, firmware, mobile apps, and the software platform that connects our installed hardware, connectivity network, and customers. This platform streamlines the marketing, delivery, installation, and maintenance of our energy products globally.

Your work will be pivotal in enabling the quality process around building our products and the adoption of the right QA automation tools and strategy. This position demands a unique combination of technical skill, knowledge in power systems, pragmatic orientation, user-centric thinking, and experience with connected devices.

ResponsibilitiesWork within Agile development frameworks, contributing to test strategy and execution across all phases of the product and software development lifecycle.Be hands-on, relying on diagnostics, code/architecture review and lab experimentations to ensure products' reliable and consistent performance.Have a high degree of ownership over the lab, planning out and building out new test systems as the situation demands.Drive what’s important to test and troubleshoot — collaborating with engineers across the organization, product management, field service and partners.Test device firmware, integrations with inverters, batteries, and other energy hardware covering a broad range of regression and new feature/integration testing.Test the platform software including the mobile apps, web applications, and connected telemetry/OTA with devices.Develop and execute system test plans/cases, maintain clear documentation of test plans, test cases and results.Define and build manual and automated test fixtures with support from R&D team.

QualificationsBachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field; Advanced degree preferred.At least 8 years of QA experience driving QA strategy, test execution, and automation. Proven experience with testing hardware, firmware, and software in power systems applications.Strong QA experience in SaaS and Multi-tenant software applicationsFamiliarity with IoT platforms and applications with connected devicesDemonstrated analytical problem-solving skills, able to identify and surface issues within complex HW/SW systems.Excellent team player, adaptable to a fast-paced, evolving startup environment.Passionate about Zola Electric's mission of energy equality and technological innovation.

What We OfferA role with meaningful impact on global energy challenges.Inclusive, innovative culture in a diverse, global team.Competitive compensation and growth opportunities in a mission-driven company.