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QA Managing Director (Cross-Departmental)

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo April 20 2025
  • 💴 ¥8M ~ ¥15M annually
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🌏
    Apply from abroad
    Relocate to Japan
  • 💬
    No Japanese required
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Intermediate to senior levels
    3+ years experience required

About Money Forward

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo

Money Forward is a fintech startup delivering tools to visualize and improve both individuals'​ and companies'​ financial health.

Key benefits

  • Small but diverse team
  • Great support for OSS
  • Relocation support

About the position

This is a management position that oversees and manages the quality of various services across the board. At Money Forward, we have two quality assurance positions: QA Engineer and SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test). You will work in collaboration with these quality engineers to fulfill our mission, while also engaging with developers involved in the products to ensure the quality of a range of products across departments.

You will report directly to the Chief Quality Officer (CQO), Juichi Takahashi, and the stakeholder manager of MFBC.

Responsibilities

  • Formulating and tracing quality management processes such as test plans and release assessments
  • Quality management using metrics
  • Improving the quality of requirement specifications
  • Setting the desired quality standards for the company, handling issues, and negotiating with stakeholders
  • Understanding and promoting next-generation quality technologies (shift-left, non-functional requirements)

Requirements

  • Management experience in an organization of five or more people
  • Holder of ISTQB Advanced Level certification (especially Test Manager certification preferred) or equivalent knowledge
  • Over three years of development experience or over three years of test automation experience using scripting languages
  • Bachelor’s degree in information processing or computer science, or equivalent knowledge (such as the Basic Information Technology Engineer Examination)

Compensation

¥8,000,000 ~ ¥15,000,000 annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    CV Screening

  2. 2

    First interview

    Depending on the position, there may be a technical assignment before the interview

  3. 3

    Several interviews

    The number of interviews depends on the position.

  4. 4

    Final interview

    We may ask for a reference check before or after the interview.

Meet Money Forward's Developers

Kostas Mavrikis left the Netherlands to join Money Forward in October 2023. As the first non-Japanese speaker in the Fukuoka office, he's been taking the initiative on Money Forward's Englishnization program, as well as introducing Kotlin, Scrumban, and European-style coffee meetings to his team.

Read their story...

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