Job Title:  Software Quality Assurance Lead

Department: Digital

Reporting line: Head of Software Engineering

Location: Kampala or Nairobi

Job Grade: HL15

About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

www.engie-energyaccess.com  

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa

Job Purpose/Mission 

EEA is looking for an experienced Software Quality Assurance (QA) Lead to oversee and drive the quality assurance strategy for both web and mobile applications in a multi-tenant architecture. As a QA Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team of QA engineers, developing comprehensive testing strategies, and ensuring that our applications meet the highest standards of quality, performance, and security across multiple tenants.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, development, and DevOps, to establish quality metrics, testing methodologies, and automation frameworks that will enable us to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable software and directly contribute to

the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale and lead the evolution of at least one of our software products.

Responsibilities

· Leadership & Team Management:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of QA engineers, ensuring clear goals, performance tracking, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the recruitment, onboarding, and training of QA team members.
• Foster a collaborative and proactive team culture focused on delivering high-quality software.

· Quality Assurance Strategy:

• Design and implement comprehensive QA strategies for multi-tenant web and mobile applications, covering functional, performance, security, and regression testing.
• Ensure the creation and maintenance of detailed test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
• Establish and monitor key QA metrics (e.g., defect rates, code coverage, test execution time, etc.) to track and improve software quality over time.

· Test Automation:

• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks to ensure efficient regression testing and fast feedback in CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure appropriate levels of test coverage, including integration, API, and UI automation across both web and mobile platforms.
• Identify and implement tools and frameworks for test automation that align with the needs of multi-tenant applications.

· Manual and Exploratory Testing:

• Manage manual testing efforts for complex or high-risk areas of the application that require human insight.
• Perform exploratory testing to identify edge cases, usability issues, and unanticipated defects.

· Collaboration & Communication:

• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and DevOps to understand requirements, clarify acceptance criteria, and ensure the QA process is integrated into the development lifecycle.
• Evaluation and/or authoring of UAT together with product managers and provide necessary support to business stakeholders.

· Continuous Improvement:

• Implement continuous testing practices to provide feedback on software quality early in the development cycle.
• Stay updated with the latest QA methodologies, tools, and best practices, and integrate them into the team’s processes.
• Work to reduce release cycle times by optimizing testing processes and increasing automation coverage.

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports.

We believe that great leaders:

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an environment enabling effective action and bold decisions which contribute to successful delivery of results.
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Knowledge and skills 

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with at least 2+ years in a leadership role.
• Experience with both web and mobile applications (iOS and Android) testing, including experience working with multi-tenant architectures.
• Strong experience in automated testing frameworks (Selenium, Appium, Cypress, etc.).
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, including functional, performance, and security testing.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing into CI workflows (e.g., Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab CI).
• Experience in API testing using tools such as Postman, SoapUI, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with version control systems like Git and project management tools like Jira.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, with a track record of building and leading high-performing QA teams.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across functional teams.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, with a strong attention to detail.

Nice to have:

• Experience with load testing and performance testing tools (e.g., JMeter, Gatling) is a strong advantage.
• Strong knowledge of multi-tenant systems, including tenant isolation and data segregation requirements is a plus.
• Experience with cloud environments (e.g., AWS) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with security testing tools (e.g., OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite).
• Experience with performance monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Sentry, Zabbix).

Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science preferred) or comparable

Language(s): 

• English
• French is a plus

Our Technology stack:

• Web framework: Rails 5 , Django, flask, fastapi
• Mobile: Android Kotlin/Java
• Background task: Sidekiq , Celery, RabbitMQ
• Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular
• API: Grape, Devise , DRF, FastApi
• TDD: RSpec , PyTest
• Search: Thinking Sphinx
• Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis
• Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD
• Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible
• Fresh Ideas Always welcome!

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!

Job Title:  Software Engineer (Rails) 

Department: Digital & IT

Reporting line:  Software Engineering Manager 

Location: Kampala or Nairobi 

About ENGIE Energy Access  

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.  

www.engie-energyaccess.com    

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa  

Job Purpose/Mission   

We are looking for a full-stack software engineer to join our digital team and help us to deliver affordable solar power to emerging markets. If you are confident in the Rails world and if you want to create real, positive impact with your work, please reach out to us. 

This position offers a great opportunity to directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. You will work closely with our stakeholders and users in Africa and beyond. 

Our small, self-organized, distributed team (Kampala / Berlin / Nairobi) develops the backbone of our operations, which we also provide to other businesses in the PAYGo sector as Software as a Service – see https://paygee.com. 

Responsibilities  

• Participate in the software planning sessions, together with product managers and engineers to discuss delivery time estimates, risks and key practical considerations such as technical debt, feasibility at scale etc.  

• Take well specified tasks and deliver a complete solution subject to all engineering best practices, timeline considerations and potential dependencies with minimal to no supervision.  

• Represent technical team in business conversations for specific assigned scope and provide effort estimates, risk assessment and coordinate technical implementation  

• Participate in Peer-Review, contribute to delivering high quality software solutions  

• Contribute to technical documentation  

• Provide support where engineering intervention is required (e.g. due to bugs or performance problems) 

Knowledge and skills    

Experience:  

• 3 years of practical experience in software engineering  

• Programming language proficiency in Ruby and Rails and front-end/JavaScript frameworks  

• Proven track record of building quality software with TDD  

• Good knowledge of object relational mappers and their implementation design patterns  

• Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring  

• Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms and solid computer science fundamentals  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 

Good to have experience   

• Experience in developing large production grade web applications 

• Knowledge of software engineering design and architectural patterns 

• Forward thinking with ability to recognize the impact of technology in business 

• Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD) 

• Knowledge of container orchestration 

• Server backend management experience (Linux, MySQL, Puma, Apache, Nginx, etc.) 

• Good knowledge on application security 

• Knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its services, such as, but not limited to, EC2, RDS, EBS, S3, Lambda functions 

Qualifications:  

• Bachelors in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science are preferred) 

Language(s):   

• English  

• French is a plus  

 Our Technology Stack:  

• Web framework: Rails 5 

• Background task: Sidekiq 

• Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular 

• API: Grape, Devise 

• TDD: RSpec 

• Search: Thinking Sphinx 

• Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis 

• Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD 

• Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible 

• Fresh Ideas Always welcome! 

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.   

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!   

Job Title: Head of People & Culture

Department: Human Resources

Reporting Line: CEO

Location: Any EEA Market

HL: 20

About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025. 

www.engie-energyaccess.com   

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa 

Purpose / Mission

The HR Director at ENGIE Energy Access (EEA) is a high impact leadership position that will deliver EEA wide HR projects, support country HR Leads in finalizing projects and provide senior level HR business partnership. The right candidate is business savvy, with high expertise in the people and hard skills required for a highly functioning HR function.

This candidate will provide hands-on support to deliver on projects themselves and support the wider HR team in delivering on their projects. The successful candidate will have proven experience in leading disparate teams in multiple locations, providing mature support while leading by example. The job holder will also be responsible for leading the dissemination of company values to the entire team while working to restore confidence in the HR function. The future incumbent will be able to deploy and successfully steer implementation and execution of the ENGIE HR strategy, policies and processes, and so be a professional member of the ENGIE HR line.

You may be a great fit for this role if you are excited by:

• Acting as a HR business partner

• Providing quick turn arounds on challenging HR issues

• Solving HR puzzles related to all HR processes (compensation and benefits, talent development, corporate culture HRIS & tools, etc.), staff engagement and building trust.

• Leading HR and supporting a global leadership team in implementing the ENGIE HR strategy, polices and processes.

• Leading and inspiring the HR-team based on result orientation and accountability.

Scope of Work

Strategic Leadership of the HR Function:

• Define the HR Strategy for EEA in line with the ENGIE group HR strategy.

• Support EEA CEO to create a safe and enabling environment within EEA Senior Leadership Team.

• Be the link between EEA and Transformation & Geographies and Flexible Generation & Retail GBU and/or Regional Hub and/or ENGIE HR filière.

• Implement change management to achieve business and people goals/outcomes.

• Bring the HR, people, and culture perspective into key executive decisions.

• Drive and oversee workforce planning and lead organizational development projects that align with the business strategy.

• Provide strategic HR support, including leading the charge and addressing difficult Talent/HR issues with senior leadership at EEA.

• Provide leadership for the full HR line within EEA and develop and implement the ideal HR structure and resource plan to most effectively meet team and business objectives.

Compensation and Benefits:

• Define and continuously improve the employee value proposition and EEA reward policy.

• Finalize and launch the remuneration policy in line with the ENGIE Group policy, launch salary structures for all markets, and ensure implementation.

• Lead the compensation and benefits committee.

• Oversee a regular salary benchmarking exercise to ensure competitive positioning of EEA in our markets and provide business insights.

• Oversee job grading process and policy and ensure that job grades are communicated to all EEA team members.

• Connect and implements ENGIE Group policies.

Employee Engagement and Culture:

• Finalize the operationalization of the EEA Culture (incl. country and entity specificities) and make it living in collaboration with the EEA Head of Communication

• Support EEA CEO driving Engie and EEA culture within EEA Senior Leadership Team

• Drive employee engagement across the organization by creating active feedback channels, ensuring regular engagement surveys are conducted, supervising the team to implement meaningful action planning based on the findings.

• Lead the dissemination of findings from the engagement surveys and drive communication to the wider team on the survey results and the proposed action plans.

• Support cultural transformation through deployment of Group programs (Be.U@ENGIE , DEI Roadmap, Engie Ways of Working, Engie Ways of Leading) across EEA. 

Talent Management and Leadership Development:

• Design & implement the talent development strategy to deliver professional development and growth opportunities across all EEA employee types, including skills development, learning and development programming, career pathing, and succession planning for key leadership roles

• Build and implement leadership development and coaching programming

• Design and Implement meaningful performance management across the organization to ensure that we have a good understanding of our talent, can effectively identify and reward top talent, and address cases of underperformance

• Design recruitment, succession planning, and mobility programs to ensure business continuity and that we have the right skills and people to achieve business goals

• Connect with Flexible Generation & Retail & Group processes (ex: People & Position Review process)

Data and Tools:

• Implement follow-up on any Group HRIS & related processes (ex: Sezame)

• Propose and implement additional HR tools supporting our activities and not covered by Engie’s solutions (Leaves, expenses management)

• Create an HR repository of data that is and remains the single source of truth for HR matters

HR Business Partnership:

• Improve HR’s and standing with the rest of the business, providing clear guidance and direction on all HR matters in support of the business.

• Provide HR business partnering support to the Leadership Team and Country Teams

• Manage and mitigate senior level ethics risks N-1 and N-2 level

Country Team HR Support:

• Lead, mentor, guide and develop in country HR leadership to deliver key business objectives

• Work with country HR Leads to ensure that our internal policies support our people-forward approach while being compliant to labour laws across different markets.

• Define and roll out unified EEA HR Policies and an EEA employee Handbook that provide guidelines to HR practitioners across EEA.

• Provide nuanced HR support to all markets as required.

Knowledge and skills 

Experience:

• 15+ years working experience in talent management and development

• 15+ years experience in operational HR functions

• Excellent written and oral communication skills

• Experience in both “hard” and “soft” HR specifically job grading, remuneration package design, payroll management, etc.

• Successful experience as Talent Director or similar role with at least regional or global oversight

• An understanding of multinational companies or vertically integrated institutions operating in multiple markets

• Experience in company integration (preferred)

• Working experience in Africa and Europe

• Living/ practical experience in at least one country in Africa or similar market with Bottom of the Pyramid customers

• Experience with Hay Job Grading or similar job grading methodology

• Leadership and project management experience: we are looking for entrepreneurial candidates who have started or contributed significantly to a particular project, team, or new company and we especially value candidates who have seen projects through from start to finish, from design to scale up phase

Qualifications:

• Relevant degree or Masters. 

Language(s): 

• English (mandatory)

• French is more than a plus

Technology:

• Experience with HRIS, ATS or HR ERP systems

• Knowledge of talent systems and software, for example, performance management systems, etc.

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths! 

Job Title: Logistics Officer 

Department: Operations 

Reporting line: Logistics Manager

Location: Kampala, Uganda 

Job Grade: 12

About ENGIE Energy Access 

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.8 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025. 

www.engie-energyaccess.com   

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa 

Job Purpose/Mission  

The Logistics Assistant is an integral part our Operations, the Logistics Assistant will support the Logistics Manager in the day to day running of the logistics requirements of Operations. Not limited to customs clearance, international shipping, Distribution planning and implementation, health and safety, process and policy implementation.

Responsibilities

• Support the Logistics Manager in handling customs clearance requirements.
• Support the Logistics Manager in shipment tracking and reporting the same in a timely and accurate manner.
• Inspect truck conditions before loading to the field and share job cards.
• Support the Logistics Manager in managing safety of EEA products in transit both locally and internationally.
• Work to reduce logistics costs in the operations department.
• Promote and improve best practice policies and procedures within EEA
• Champion Health and safety standards and practice at all times.
• Support the Logistics Manager in demand forecast and planning.
• Follow up on pending shipments and advise statuses to the Logistics Manager.

Knowledge and skills: 

  Experience:

• Must have a Bachelor Degree in Logistics, transport, Supply chain management.
• Familiarity with East Africa Customs clearance processes.
• Experience in working in a busy environment.
• Relationship management with external and internal stakeholders.
• Must be familiar with INCOTERMS.

Qualifications 

• Relevant University degree  

Language(s) 

• Proficient in written and spoken English.  

Technology:

• Microsoft suite - required.
• Trouble shooting
• ASSYCUDA

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.  

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!