Charles Kitonga
Software Engineer In Test at Safaricom PLC
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Kitonga is a Software Engineer in Test with eight years of hands-on experience building automation-first test frameworks and embedding quality across the SDLC for large-scale enterprise products. At Safaricom he has driven end-to-end STLC for distributed microservices, implemented API automation with Robot Framework and Rest Assured, and integrated tests into CI/CD to reduce production defects. He combines a shift-left mindset with pragmatic test data management, exploratory testing, and mentoring to raise team capability and confidence in releases. Comfortable across API, UI and system integration testing, Charles prioritizes clean test code and reliable pipelines to help teams move fast without breaking things. A persistent learner and problem-solver based in Nairobi, he brings the patience and high standards of a long-suffering Manchester United supporter to complex quality challenges.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Strathmore University
Github Skills (26)
shadow9
autocomplete7
typeahead5
laravel5
plot5
javascript5
typescript4
php4
adapter4
plugin4
robot3
charts3
package3
laravel-framework3
laravel-package3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CharlesKitonga/Graphic-Store-Ecommerce
Feb 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
laravel-frameworkjavascriptphp7
CharlesKitonga/CharlesKitonga
Dec 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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