SDE1 - Quality

What you will be expected to do:

• Design, execute, and maintain test cases, test plans, and test scripts for functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Identify software defects, document them clearly, and track them through to closure.
• Analyze bugs and provide detailed insights to help developers understand root causes.
• Partner closely with the development team to reproduce issues, validate fixes, and ensure overall product quality.
• Develop, maintain, and improve automated test suites (API/UI) to enhance test coverage, reduce manual effort, and improve release confidence.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines to integrate automated tests into the deployment workflow.
• Validate production issues, support troubleshooting, and verify hotfixes in real-time environments.
• Recommend improvements in product performance, usability, and reliability based on test findings.
• Participate in requirement and design reviews to ensure clarity, completeness, and testability.
• Benchmark against competitor products and suggest enhancements based on industry trends.
• Maintain detailed test documentation, including test results, defect logs, and release readiness assessments.
• Continuously improve QA processes, automation frameworks, and testing methodologies.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience in software testing (manual + exposure to automation).
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, testing types, and best practices.
• Experience in designing and executing test cases, test plans, and regression suites.
• Exposure to automation tools/frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, or similar.
• Basic programming or scripting knowledge (Java/Python preferred).
• Good understanding of SQL for backend and data validation testing.
• Familiarity with API testing tools such as Postman or RestAssured.
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (Jira, TestRail, etc.).
• Strong analytical and debugging skills with the ability to identify root causes.
• Ability to work effectively in Agile/Scrum environments and partner with developers, product, and DevOps teams.
• Strong ownership mindset — having contributed to high-quality, near bug-free releases.

• Exceptional attention to detail and a strong focus on product quality.
• Experience with performance, load, or security testing (JMeter, Gatling, OWASP tools, etc.).
• Exposure to advanced automation frameworks or building automation scripts from scratch.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests.
• Experience working with observability tools like Grafana, Kibana, and Prometheus for production verification.
• Good understanding of microservices, distributed systems, or cloud platforms.

What Sun King offers:

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

About
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection.Sun King has built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones. Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright.Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.