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We share the love in how we collaborate, carry everyone along as we grow, break boundaries to challenge what’s possible, and show up every day committed to doing better.\nIf you’re driven by purpose, excited by impact, and ready to help redefine the future of finance in Africa, you’ll feel right at home here.\nRole Overview\nAt Kuda, we are dedicated to delivering a seamless, reliable, and highly secure digital financial experience for our customers. As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will be the ultimate guardian of our platform’s quality and reliability. You won’t just be writing scripts; you will be writing robust code to build the automated infrastructure that ensures our customers' money and data are always safe and accessible.\nYou will sit at the critical intersection of software engineering and quality assurance. 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Ensure that every code commit is rigorously and automatically tested for functionality and stability before reaching production.\nPerformance & Security Testing: Design and execute automated performance, load, and security tests to proactively identify bottlenecks and vulnerabilities, ensuring our systems can handle massive transaction volumes securely.\nShift-Left Quality & Collaboration: Partner closely with software engineers, product managers, and QA analysts during the design phase. Define testability requirements and ensure quality is built-in from day one rather than tested-in later.\nDefect Triage & Root Cause Analysis: Investigate complex issues, debug code, and work alongside developers to trace defects down to the root cause, implementing preventative automation to stop regressions.\nMentorship & Best Practices: Continuously evaluate modern testing tools and methodologies (e.g., Appium, Playwright, JMeter, Axios/RestAssured, MySql). Mentor junior team members and cultivate a culture where quality is a shared engineering responsibility.\nRequirements\n5+ years of experience in a dedicated SDET or Software Automation role.\nAdvanced proficiency in Java and JavaScript, with working knowledge of C# and Groovy.\nHands-on experience with web and mobile automation tools including:\nSelenium\nPlaywright\nCypress\nAppium\nStrong experience with API and data testing, including making API/HTTP requests using:\nRest Assured\nAxios\nJest\nOkHttp\nApache HttpClient\nExperience managing database connections using HikariCP or JDBC.\nProficiency in automation framework design patterns, particularly:\nKeyword-Driven Testing\n Page Object Model (POM)\nFamiliarity with build and CI/CD tools including:\nMaven\nTestNG\nJest\nJenkins\nAzure DevOps Pipelines\nExperience with test reporting and test management tools such as:\nExtent Reports\nAzure/Assure Reports\nJira\nTest management integrations\nSoft Skills & Professional Attributes\nIndependent Ownership: Proactively identify improvements and fix issues without constant supervision.\nKnowledge Sharing: A \"share the love\" mentality-mentoring peers and documenting findings to elevate the team's technical bar.\nCollaborative Leadership: Aligning developers and Product Owners with the automation strategy to ensure collective success.\nContinuous Improvement: A \"do things better every day\" mindset focused on optimizing execution time and simplifying workflows.\nStrong Communication: Translating complex technical failures into clear, actionable insights for all stakeholders.\nBenefits\nWhy join Kuda?\nAt Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritise your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:\nA great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team\nPension\nCareer Development & growth\nCompetitive annual leave plus bank holidays\nCompetitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)\nMedical insurance\nWell-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)\nAwardCo.\nAward winning L&D training\nWe are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule\nKuda is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Kuda is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.\nWe don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. 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