Fixa is building the HR and financial infrastructure for Africa’s informal and blue-collar workforce. Our platform supports businesses in construction, manufacturing, agriculture, and other labor-intensive sectors with powerful tools for workforce management, payroll, payments, and financial services.
We’re growing quickly and need a dedicated QA Engineer to ensure our platform meets the highest standards of quality before it reaches our users.
As a Full-Time QA Engineer at Fixa, you will own the quality assurance function end-to-end, with a strong emphasis on automation testing. You’ll design, implement, and execute test strategies across web, mobile, and USSD applications while collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, and the leadership team.
This is a high-impact role where you will shape QA processes, champion quality culture, and ensure every release is stable, secure, and user-ready.
Key Responsibilities
Automation & Manual Testing
Build, maintain, and scale automated test suites (web, mobile, and API).
Write end-to-end tests (Playwright + TypeScript or equivalent) covering functional, regression, and integration scenarios.
Conduct exploratory testing and provide concise, actionable bug reports.
QA Strategy & Ownership
Define QA standards, test plans, and acceptance criteria for feature releases.
Drive test coverage across all Fixa products:
Fixa Admin Web App (React)
Tenant Web App (React)
Tenant Mobile App (Flutter)
USSD App
Champion best practices for CI/CD test automation and advise on tooling improvements.
Collaboration
Partner with developers to debug, verify fixes, and prevent regressions.
Collaborate with product managers to align testing scope with business priorities.
Clearly communicate risks, tradeoffs, and quality metrics to leadership.
Process & Continuous Improvement
Own and evolve QA processes, documentation, and release sign-offs.
Introduce observability and monitoring tools to catch issues proactively.
Ensure test environments are reliable, repeatable, and integrated into the SDLC.
What We’re Looking For
Must-Have Qualifications
5+ years of experience in QA for web and mobile platforms.
Proven hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, or WebdriverIO).
Strong understanding of QA methodologies (unit, integration, regression, exploratory, acceptance).
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or similar).
Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications
Familiarity with African payment systems (e.g., MTN MoMo, bank transfers, bulk disbursements).
Experience with API testing tools (Postman, Rest Assured).
Knowledge of observability tools (Datadog, Grafana, Kibana).
Background in scaling QA functions as the sole or first QA in a team.
Why Join Fixa?
Be the first full-time QA Engineer, shaping how quality is done at Fixa.
Work on impactful products that directly improve the lives of Africa’s workforce.
Collaborate with a dynamic, mission-driven team across engineering and product.
Opportunity to grow into QA leadership as the company scales.
