Quality Assurance Engineer (Data)

Are you passionate about ensuring data quality and accuracy? Do you have the analytical skills to read data visualizations and the expertise to maintain high data standards? If you thrive on making data-driven decisions and want to contribute to our dynamic team, the Quality Assurance Engineer (Data) role is perfect for you!

The Company

Tiko inspires futures where girls and young women take charge of their sexual and reproductive choices, with the freedom to shape their lives. Founded in 2014, Tiko is an African nonprofit organisation that enhances the potential and fosters the resilience of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in Sub-Saharan Africa by addressing the critical “Triple Threat”: early pregnancy, HIV, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). Tiko has developed its own unique girl-centric technology platform to unite an ecosystem of existing, established partners to provide an environment enabling girls to choose when, where and how they meet their health and wellbeing needs. Leveraging this technology-enabled, community-driven approach, Tiko collaborates with local and national health systems to drive sustainable, transformative change. Tiko operates in seven countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Zambia and Nigeria.

Tiko has offices in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, the Netherlands and Portugal. Globally, our team consists of +230 enthusiastic, international colleagues. Whether you are working from our biggest office in Nairobi, the fast-growing office in South Africa, or from home, our people are young, and our culture is global and dynamic. Our work environment is fast-paced, informal, and friendly. You can learn more about what being part of Tiko is like here.

We are open to remote work for this position and will happily accept applicants from Portugal, Kenya, and South Africa

The Job

The Quality Assurance Engineer (Data) ensures the integrity and accuracy of our data, validating that data processes and visualizations meet the highest standards.

Responsibility areas:

• Agile Practices: Our team works in an agile manner, and you will be part of the rituals and practices, always seeking improvements.
• Testing: You perform both manual and automated testing on our data systems and visualizations. Once testing and analysis are complete, you communicate your findings clearly and constructively with the development team, aiding them in improving their future work. You help develop best practices and quality standards, driving their implementation among the teams.
  
• Development: We expect you to actively participate in meetings and projects, coordinating with your team members. Additionally, you are expected to continue developing yourself and staying informed about new developments in the field.
• Documentation: You document your work, ensuring that it is clear and understandable for future use by others. You also ensure that documentation processes adhere to quality standards.
• Data Quality Processes: You are accountable for data quality assurance standards and processes within your team. You must be able to promote a quality mindset and ensure that everyone understands their responsibility for data quality.

About you

As a QA Engineer (Data), you will be responsible for the data quality assurance standards and processes of your team. You are a self-starter who knows what to do. You enjoy peer-to-peer collaboration and take the initiative to get involved with the team you work with.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional experience working as a QA Engineer, with at least one year focused on data quality
• You have significant experience executing both manual and automated data testing
• You have experience creating detailed and well-structured test plans and test cases for data validation
• You have experience working with automated testing tools and framework implementation (JavaScript or Python preferentially).
• Knowledge of  SQL, and Data Visualisation Tools (Tableau preferentially)
• Knowledge of Extract - Transform - Load processes
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects and responsibilities
• You know how to communicate with technical and non-technical people.
• Fluent in English
  

The rewards

At Tiko we believe in being open, also when it comes to salaries. The gross monthly salary bracket for this position is €2,123 - €3,184(14x) in Portugal, R42,271 - R63,407 in South Africa, and Ksh226,856 - Ksh340,284 in Kenya, plus benefits. We will offer you a salary in this bracket depending on your level of experience and how it relates to your future colleagues. 

In addition to your monthly salary, we offer you:

• Good secondary benefits 
• A personal development budget
• Unlimited holidays, if you can make it work with your team you’re good to go
• Growth opportunities
• A product to help shape as we grow, to leave your mark on how we do things
• A vision that we trust that you will do your job without us having to invent unnecessary rules and regulations

The details

Interested? Click apply now below! Want more information? Check out our website or contact our Global Recruiter. We only accept applications through the apply links, not by email. 

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Tiko prioritizes integrity in our workplace and respects your privacy.

Tiko is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour by its employees at work, including sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This is why we will do reference and background screening checks on successful candidates before hiring. Tiko also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. As part of this scheme, we will request information from your previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during your employment, or incidents under investigation when you left employment. By applying for this position, you confirm you have read and understood these recruitment procedures.

We value your privacy and understand the importance of safeguarding your personal data. We invite you to review our privacy notice for the recruitment process to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data during the recruitment process. Click here to view the document. By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our privacy notice.