Background
Health Strat (HS) is an indigenous public health organization with current presence in all 47 counties in Kenya. We help governments, health care organizations, and development health organizations to optimize their investments for more effective health care delivery. We work side-by-side with our clients and partners to apply and utilize cutting edge technology, data, and best practices to solve intractable challenges in health care delivery, public health practice and market access.
Health Strat has established its reputation as an innovator that brings interdisciplinarity into fast changing and complex health care ecosystem that demands balancing goals of effectiveness, efficiency, and equity in health care delivery, ensuring value for money for our clients and partners, implementing sustainable solutions for long-term population health outcomes improvement.
Our customized solutions, tools and frameworks are easy to integrate into organizational systems and business processes, requiring minimal additional resource investments. We co-design interventions with our clients and partners ensuring ownership throughout the implementation process – a strategy that promotes sustainability.
We are inviting applications from experienced and qualified individuals for the position of Systems Quality Assurance (QA) Intern.
Position Summary
Reporting to the Business Analyst/Systems Administrator, the Systems Quality Assurance Intern will support development, testing, implementation, and user support for Health Strat technology tools and platforms.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Participate in system requirements gathering and document the expectation in a clear and easy to understand language
- Translate functional requirements and specifications into detailed test plans, encompassing functional, system, integration, performance, regression, and user acceptance testing. S/he will be responsible for implementing Agile Software Testing Lifecycle
- Work with the project management team closely to ensure that testing processes are implemented and followed by all core team members
- Testing and ensuring quality of applications to ensure they meet user needs
- Perform workflow and functional testing of the developed systems to ensure quality of user experience and data
- Test solutions to integrate with other existing platforms, create data pipelines, and monitor the quality of the ETL processes
- Review products to match design specifications, with an eye to user experience issues such as fonts, colors, and screen size breakpoints with responsive design
- Verify multiplatform capabilities, cross-browser testing (Chrome, IE, Firefox, Edge, Safari), and mobile testing (iPad, iPhone, android phones, tablets) for building products
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in degree in computer science or information systems or software engineering with a focus on software development or equivalent degree
- At least 1 year of experience in automated testing
- Experience in performance and load testing with open-source tools
- Ability to initiate projects, draw plan of activities, monitor, and notify supervisor of variance
Skills:
- Experienced testing in low to no-code environments and processes such as mobile data collection and/or PowerBI dashboards
- In-depth understanding and practical testing experience of T-SQL, SQL Serve
- Experience with full software development process with Agile methodology
- Experience with any open-source performance/stress testing tool
- Experience with PowerBI and Power Tools will be an added advantage
How to Apply:
Interested applicants who meet the criteria above should sent a cover letter detailing their suitability, a copy of their CV and contact information (name, email address and telephone number) for three referees to recruitment@healthstrat.co.ke with the subject line Systems QA Intern. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.