QA Engineer

Kraken Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 No salary range given
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 3+ years experience required
  • 💬 Business Japanese
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 🧳 No relocation support
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About Kraken

Kraken Minato-ku, Tokyo

We believe energy should be better - for you and the environment. We’re a leading energy technology company providing a better experience for our customers through transparency, honesty and simplicity.

Key benefits

  • Flexible working environment
  • Unlimited vacation policy
  • Equity Options Scheme

About the position

As we enter the stage of rapid commercialisation and customer growth we are now looking for an exceptional QA (Quality Assurance) engineer to help shape, refine and deliver our engineering quality strategy with being curious in nature and innovative in your approach regarding how to maximise quality.

We see the QA Engineer as a key collaborative role within our development teams, working with each team member - Product Owner; Developers and Designers - you will ensure quality is thoughtfully examined in both process and technology. As a hands-on member of the team, you will actively contribute to our test automation coverage and encourage all teammates to weave quality into the mindsets and code.

Responsibilities

  • Operate as both a “Doer” and a “Thinker”, fulfilling quality commitments as well as contributing to and driving efforts to enhance the testing coverage of the team
  • Provide input for and champion testability, collaborating with the development teams to mentor and educate them in good testing practices to improve quality
  • Be the ambassador for quality and collaborate with our talented software engineers to produce, enhance and release products that excel the expectations of our global client base
  • Be working at the forefront of a fully-fledged Agile environment embracing continuous delivery and improvements
  • Implement key quality principle like Test Pyramid for all development teams to follow, including our approach to cross-functional requirements such as security & performance
  • Be hands-on help enhance teams automation testing coverage and observability
  • Participate in agile ceremonies and help influence quality process involvements within the teams
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team’s Quality testing approach and help influence; share and learn culture within the teams around quality.

Requirements

  • Bring an ability and desire to address testing and process problems at their root, stepping back where appropriate to understand the broader context and apply creative solutions
  • Be a quality advocate who brings a track record of positively influencing peers and colleagues and driving continuous improvement at a team level
  • Solid understanding of best practices such as TDD, BDD, CI/CD and the Test Pyramid
  • Have expert understanding of the challenges of testing complex, highly performing and high quality software systems
  • Experience working in an agile/lean software development process and with code management & deployment strategies
  • An understanding of secure coding approaches & testing applications from a security perspective in order to deliver secured quality software to our clients
  • An understanding of approaches to building and testing for performance, including testing API performance e.g. Locust, K6, Gatling
  • Experience working in an agile/lean software development process and with code management & deployment strategies
  • You can apply your ‘test’ mindset to exploring and understanding other teammates’ perspectives and can foster a common idea of quality.
  • Business level Japanese language skills

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Experience working in a Japanese testing/QA environment is highly desirable
  • Experience with Typescript and/or Python
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Meet Kraken's Developers

Polly Sutcliffe came to Japan on the JET programme. After working as a translator, she pivoted her career through a coding bootcamp. Now she's a frontend developer at Kraken, where she works on their consumer-facing portal.

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Jos is a senior software engineer and team lead of the payments and collections team at Kraken. He is also a line manager and a tech lead. Jos tells us about the environment at Kraken, what his job involves, and what makes working there so rewarding.

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