Vacancies At mPharma Ghana 2018

Do you believe that everybody should have access to the best treatments they need to get better regardless of the socio-economic status? If you answer yes then you would love working at mPharma.

At mPharma, we start and end our day thinking about how we can enable patients to afford their medications. We are a small but growing team of 45+ members, headquartered in Accra, Ghana, backed by world class investors. We’ve joined hands with third party payers, drug manufacturers and healthcare providers to develop products and services that directly reduce the costs of prescription drugs for patients. In only a few months, we’ve managed to provide low-cost, high-quality medicines to tens of thousands of patients across four African countries (Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe).

Job Description

Job Title: Quality Assurance Engineer

We are looking for a Quality Assurance (QA) engineer to develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality.

QA engineer responsibilities include designing and implementing tests, debugging and defining corrective actions. You will also review system requirements and track quality assurance metrics (e.g. defect densities and open defect counts.).

Ultimately, you will monitor all stages of software development to identify and resolve system malfunctions to meet quality standards.

If you hold an engineering background and enjoy providing end-to-end solutions to software quality problems, we’d like to meet you.

Required Technical Skills

Strong engineering background (knowledge in python is an added advantage).
Should have experience testing web based applications.
Ability to review user interfaces for consistency and functionality.
Hands on experience in creating and running automated scripts.
Ability to identify, isolate and track bugs.
Ability to record test progress, result and create requirement traceability matrix document.
Hands on experienced in creating test plans.
Should be able to analyze test results and create test reports.
Should be able to work independently, under pressure and in teams as well.
Hands on experience in creating test cases.
Attention to detail, excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Desired Technical Skills
Experience in the use of source code repositories.
Experience with continuous integration tools.
Should have a solid understanding of QA testing environment and tools.
Experience of having worked in an agile team.
Familiar with these tools (Git, Git Lab, Jenkins, Baboon, JIRA)
Initiative, proactive, persistence, self-motivated, strong written and verbal communication, think outside the box, willingness to learn new technologies, work efficiently in a fast paced environment.

Responsibilities

Review requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
Design, develop and execute automation scripts.
Identify, record, document thoroughly and track bugs.
Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved.
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.

If you meet the above criteria, please email your current CV and cover letter describing why you are interested in working with mPharma and how you would make a good addition to our team to [email protected]. Please use the subject line “QA Engineer – Ghana – (Your Name)”.