Your Job

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for the overall QA activities of our products. You will be involved in all aspects related to product quality, including not only verifying behavior according to specifications, but also reviewing and improving specifications, conducting UI/UX verification, and improving the development process.

• Review and improvement of specifications in the upstream phase of the development process
• Test planning, design, execution, management, and bug reporting
• Negotiation and coordination with engineers
• Promotion of test efficiency and automation for web and backend systems
• Design, implementation, and maintenance of various tests (API, E2E, UI, regression)
• Improvement tasks related to the entire development process, assuming an Agile environment

As a Lead QA Engineer, you will also be responsible for the following tasks:

• Mentoring and developing the QA team (including regular 1-on-1 meetings with team members)
• Providing technical support and reviews to team members
• Proactively collaborating with the development team, Product Managers (PdM), and other departments

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in development or QA at a business company
• QA experience in web or mobile applications
• Experience in setting up test environments and knowledge of CI/CD
• QA experience for services developed with microservices architecture
• Ability to analyze complex issues and user feedback to identify challenges
• Knowledge and experience in process improvement within projects
• Fluent Japanese and Business Level English

Nice to Have

• ISTQB/JSTQB Advanced Level Test Manager certification
• Experience in E2E test development using Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium
• Experience testing applications that use databases
• QA experience in the sales industry or SaaS products

Our Tech Stack

[QA]

• Frameworks: Playwright, Jest
• Monitoring: Datadog
• Project management: Linear
• Test management: Qase
• API testing: Postman
• Others: Github, Github Action, Docker, Figma, UIBakery, Notion, Slack, Gather

Please note that these are only examples. You will select and implement technologies that best fit our product and team.

[Front-end]

• TypeScript, React
• Libraries: Storybook, jest
• Hosting: Amplify

[Server Side/Back-End]

• Infrastructure: AWS, ElasticBeanstalk
• DB: Aurora, ElasticSearch
• Languages: Go, Kotlin, Typescript
• Analysis environment: Athena
• Framework: Express
• Monitoring: DataDog
• Others: AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, AWS API Gateway, AWS Glue

Why Us?

• One of the fastest growing SaaS startups in Japan with strong financial growth
• Innovative new product development and opportunity to build things from scratch
• Plenty of leadership and career development opportunities
• Full remote-friendly & full flexible work schedules
• Global team and English speaking environment
• Great benefits & perks packages such as Resort Worx, Purchasing Books, Free Weekly Lunch, Offsites, etc.

Working Style

● Remote Work

We’re remote friendly. We use Zoom and Meet, and recently introduced the virtual office platform Gather to maintain both the quality and quantity of communication while working remotely, ensuring smooth development and operations.

● Flexible Work

You are free to customize your daily working hours. Taking into account the situation within the company and your team, you will manage your schedule and tasks within reasonable limits. Each employee adjusts their working hours to meet the monthly requirement of 8 hours per working day.

● Work-Life Balance

We value a healthy work-life balance. Whether you want to focus heavily on work or prioritize your personal time, we believe this is an environment where both approaches can thrive.