Microsoft's First-Ever Software Testing Center in Africa Opened in Nairobi

US-based technology company Microsoft has opened a software testing centre in Nairobi, the first in the African continent.

Microsoft launched the Nairobi center through a partnership with Techno Brain, a Kenyan Information Technology (IT) company.

Microsoft will outsource its testing and quality assurance to Techno Brain Kenya for its flagship Windows operating system. The new center is expected to employ more than 1,000 Kenyan youth while growing the tech skills in the country.

“This has been as a result of two years of work between us and the Microsoft team,” said Manoj Shanker, CEO Techno Brain Group.

“Kenya is set to be the ultimate technology hub in Africa. Microsoft supports Kenya in that vision with global training and standards to up skill to global standards,” said Bamboo Sofola, partner director software engineering at Microsoft Corporation.

The Techno Brain test center will get exclusive access to Windows Insider software builds that are yet to be launched in the global market. 

Kenya becomes the fourth country in the world to have a Microsoft test engineering site after China, Poland and India.