SDE2 - Quality

What you will be expected to do

• Design, maintain, and evolve automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend testing using industry-standard tools and languages.
• Design, execute, and maintain comprehensive test plans covering functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end scenarios for complex systems involving microservices, APIs, and distributed architectures.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and DevOps teams to ensure testability, reliability, and fast turnaround of features.
• Conduct deep root cause analysis of critical defects and drive preventive QA practices.
• Establish and track key quality assurance metrics like defect leakage, automation coverage, and test efficiency.
• Conduct code reviews for quality automation, guide junior testers, and enforce quality standards.
• Own the end-to-end validation process of production hotfixes, live environment verifications, and release certifications.
• Monitor technical issues raised by the field team, and raise tickets if bugs are found.

You might be a strong candidate if you have/are

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• Expertise in both manual and automation testing across complex systems.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in software QA with a focus on test automation and release quality.
• Proven experience with automation tools/frameworks like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, or similar.
• Good programming skills in Java or Python for writing maintainable automation code.
• Solid understanding of API testing (Postman, RestAssured); backend validation, and SQL-based data verification.
• Experience implementing automated tests in CI/CD pipelines (Github/Bitbucket).
• Skilled in analyzing test trends, improving test processes, and driving data-backed quality initiatives.
• Good communicator with an ownership mindset and ability to work cross-functionally in agile product teams.

• Previous experience in performance, load, or security testing (JMeter, Gatling, OWASP, etc.).
• Exposure to cloud platforms and microservices testing (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus.
• Familiarity with containerized testing (Docker, Kubernetes) environments.
• Contributions to designing quality gates and automated release checks.
• Experience with BDD frameworks (Cucumber, Behave) and API contract validation.
• Passion for driving continuous improvement initiatives and introducing modern QA practices.

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 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.