About the Project

Monitoring and Evaluation & Strategic Information Systems (MESIS) is a project led by Health Strat in partnership with the National and AIDS STI Control Program (NASCOP) and University of Nairobi through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The project supports enhancing strategic information capacity for HIV/AIDS programs towards sustaining epidemic control in Kenya through monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and data science. The project implements several technological innovations in health information systems.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Business Analyst/Systems Administrator, the Quality Assurance Intern will support development, testing, implementation, and user support for Health Strat technology tools and platforms.

Duties 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 phone, tablet) for building products.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or Software Engineering with a focus on Software Development or an equivalent degree
• At least 1 year experience in automated testing
• Some Performance and Load Testing experience with open-source tools

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