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QA Automation Engineer

• 3+ years as SDET or Software Engineer
• Passion for testing in general and automated testing in particular
• Strong technical skills
• Strong working knowledge of .NET (C#) stack including WebApi
• Agile development experience
• Ability to understand and participate in domain modeling, including DDD and other modeling principles required
• Experience with Microsoft Azure or AWS preferred
• Plus skills: PowerShell, Linux, and Windows environments, Azure Webjobs, Testing frameworks

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Where You’ll Work 

Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in Africa’s most talented software engineers. 

What You’ll Do 

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our clients around the world. 
• Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively. 

Experience

• A minimum of 5-10 years of professional experience, during which you’ve built deep technical expertise and exercised ownership on various technical teams.

Required

• Expert-level understanding of Python
• Intermediate-level understanding of at least one other backend language (In addition to the core language): JavaScript, PHP, Ruby. Go, Scala
• Advanced understanding of at least one Web Framework for your language of choice: Flask/Django for Python; Node/Express for JavaScript, Rails for Ruby, Lumen/Laravel for PHP.
• Deep understanding of fundamental database concepts - relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database and ORMs/ODMs
• Strong knowledge of at least one cloud hosting platform (Ex: AWS, GCP)
• Comfort with at least one CI/CD tool (Ex: Jenkins, Travis)
• Working knowledge of containerization and orchestration techniques 
• Deep understanding of applicable unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries 
• Strong ability to problem-solve, debug, and understand pertinent performance metrics
• Comfort working within agile methodologies and experienced in estimation and time management
• Awareness of the capabilities of applicable languages/frameworks/libraries as well as the inherent differences between them in order to understand trade-offs and make recommendations.

Preferred

• Working knowledge of software engineering collaboration tools
• Strong preference for test-driven-development (TDD) and understands its importance
• Working knowledge of code editor and formatting tools
• Comfort with at least one web server technology -- (ex: Apache, Nginx)

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About the job
Where You’ll Work 

Andela is a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. We help companies build high-performing distributed engineering teams by investing in the world’s most talented software engineers.

What You’ll Do

• Use your knowledge in your core technology to delight our clients around the world.
• Be responsible for the coding standards, conduct and deliverables of your fast-paced, distributed, teams, by proactively communicating and prioritizing effectively.

Responsibilities:

• Design, scope, and implement technical solutions that scale across multiple web applications
• Collaboratively define and prioritize projects and tasks
• Drive thoughtful conversations around technical issues and opportunities
• Review code and provide thoughtful, constructive feedback for your team and the community
• Triage, reproduce, and debug technical support requests, bugs, and feature requests reported by users in our Issues on our website.
• Provide compassionate technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others

Qualifications:

• Strong written communication skills
• High degree of empathy
• 5+ years experience as a full-time professional coder using Ruby on Rails.
• Experience team leading/management.
• Experience working asynchronously on a remote, distributed team (does not have to be professional experience - preferable)
• Ability to draw on both system design and software engineering concepts and blend those perspectives pragmatically based on project needs
• Experience building highly available services at scale

What You’ll Get

• Competitive compensation
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds inside and outside of your field 
• A chance to change the world for the better