Quality Engineering Intern

About One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to two-thirds of Africa's farmers, we provide high-quality farm supplies, tree seedlings, accessible credit, modern agronomic training, and a wide range of other agricultural services. On average, this model enables any farmer to increase their income and assets on supported land by more than 35 percent, while permanently improving their resilience. This is all made possible by our team of 9,000+ full-time staff, drawn from diverse backgrounds and professions. To learn more, please see our Why Work Here blog post.

About the Young Professionals Program

One Acre Fund’s Young Professionals Program offers high-performing African graduates meaningful internships and training opportunities at a high-performing, mission-driven organization. Our internships are paid and all interns can expect to receive substantive work assignments working on high-impact projects that support One Acre Fund's operations.

When joining, interns will participate in an onboarding program and receive training on how to design and execute projects. Over the period of your internship, you will get the opportunity to work with like-minded individuals and receive learning opportunities to build strong foundations for your future career. 

About the Role

The Quality Engineer role drives the quality, reliability, and usability of delivered solutions and improves the processes that uphold technical best practices. Likely to own quality for many complex services.

Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis 

• Identify and integrate quality assurance parameters throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Contribute to backlog grooming to refine user stories with the necessary technical specifications, non-functional scope of work, such as acceptance criteria and test cases

Quality Assurance

• Put in place processes and methods for collecting value-driven quality measurement and other service-level agreement (SLA) monitoring
• Create reports on key metrics and indicators of product quality that inform decisions and strategies by stakeholders

Streamlined Testing

• Source quality-driven feedback and performance metrics directly from field staff/users
• Create and manage test frameworks; use the framework to set and hit test coverage goals across multiple test areas (regression, stress testing, etc.)
• Automate testing in CI/CD pipelines
• Create test schedules in accordance with project scope or delivery timelines
• Prepare, refine, and track test plans and cases according to quality parameters and acceptance criteria

Quality Control

• Identify and introduce the latest industry standards and regulations for software quality control
• Identify quality-related technical problems and drive their respective resolution
• Document your work to ensure replicability both as your service adds new features and to other services.

Troubleshooting Production Issues

• Isolate and track bugs throughout all stages of testing and product support
• Anticipate and record solution deficiencies as informed by technical guides and quality assessment reports

Career Growth and Development

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we deeply invest in our people. You’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to mentorship and training, and regular feedback on your performance. We’ll hold career reviews every one-three months, and set aside time to discuss your aspirations and career goals. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a growing organization and gain rewarding technical experience.

Qualifications

Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:

• Experience working in Agile
• Competency in software quality principles and quality control principles
• Background in software testing

Preferred Start Date

As soon as possible

Job Location

Kigali, Rwanda or Nairobi, Kenya

Benefits

Interns will be provided with a reasonable stipend for the duration of their contract. Rural area based fellows will be provided assistance in locating suitable housing.

Eligibility

This role is only open to citizens or permanent residents of Kenya and Rwanda.

Application Deadline

26 September 2026.We hire on a rolling basis which means that applications are reviewed and processed on a continuous basis until a hire is made. 

One Acre Fund never asks candidates to pay any money or pay for tests at any stage of the interview process. Official One Acre Fund emails will always arrive from an @oneacrefund.org address. Please report any suspicious communication here ([email protected]), but do not send applications or application materials to this email address.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism are deeply connected to our organization’s mission and purpose. One Acre Fund aspires to build a culture where all staff feel consistently valued, represented, and connected – so that our team can thrive as professionals, and achieve exceptional impact for the farmers we serve.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.