Responsibilities
- Collaborate with domain experts, engineers, designers, and product management to establish and achieve quality goals
- Gather information needed to perform QA activities from different stakeholders
- Analyze the requirements, identify project and quality risks, and strategize QA activities accordingly
- Work in an agile environment alongside the engineering team to drive and execute project plans
- Work with the development team and the stakeholders to design the test plans and strategies
- Lead the development team in setting up the test environment
- Prioritize tests, execute them, and report issues in a timely manner
- Work with the QA department to establish quality standards throughout the cross-functional teams
- Automate tests and integrate them into the CI/CD pipeline if deemed necessary
- Mentor Junior QA members
Requirements
- Over 6 years of experience in the software development industry
- JavaScript (at least 2 years of experience)
- Willingness to learn new technology and skills quickly
- Ability to test without UI (back-end testing)
- Good knowledge of back-end testing for micro-services
- Ability to collaborate with developers to plan and set up test environments
- Experience with API test automation
- Good understanding in event-driven architecture testing
- Experience working in an agile environment
Nice to haves
While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.
- Devops, fullstack, or development experiences
- Experience operating cloud web services (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience working in a business based on the philosophies of lean startup and agile mindset
- Experience working with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)
- Strong communication skills and ability to liaison between domain experts, engineers, designers, and product management
- Experience working on nonfunctional testing (such as performance, and security testing)
- Experience in the shift-left testing approach
Compensation
6 to 8.5 million JPY annually.
