As a QA Lead Engineer in the Incubation team, you will be responsible for leading the QA strategy formulation and execution for the new products. Your role will go beyond simply ensuring quality and improving processes; you will also need to address why quality is important and what aspects we should focus on from a broader perspective. By leading the QA strategy in collaboration with stakeholders and fostering discussions, your mission is to continuously deliver value to our customers and gain their trust.
About the Incubation Team
Our Incubation team is more than just a feature development team. Our mission consists of three pillars:
- Create more products. Continuously launch new products that solve customer problems.
- Create more strong teams. Build strong development teams capable of driving product growth.
- Create structured ways to accelerate these activities. Establish repeatable systems to speed up our creation process.
In this position you’ll be joining a team that functions as an independent startup within CADDi. You’ll be creating a new application based on top of our core platform, CADDi Drawer, which manages large archives of engineering drawings, documents, and supply-chain data.
We have developed an initial version of the new product and are now preparing for its official release. As we move toward a full-scale launch, ensuring product quality and stability has become a priority. To support this phase, we are looking for a new team member who can lead the development of our QA processes.
Responsibilities
- Defining the desired quality based on product vision, business strategy, and organizational status
- Building a QA system and framework to achieve the mission (including training and hiring QA members)
- Formulating test strategies and leading test planning, design, and execution
- Reviewing product specifications from a quality perspective and proposing improvements
- Continuously promoting both automated and manual testing across the entire software delivery process
- Raising quality-related issues and planning and implementing quality improvement measures
Requirements
- Proven experience leading quality assurance activities based on strong expertise in software QA
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing test processes in development organizations, in accordance with QA standards and best practices such as ISTQB, ISO 29119, and general QA methodologies
- Fluent business-level Japanese communication skills. Examples include: Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) N2 level or equivalent, or approximately 3 years of professional work experience in a Japanese-speaking environment.
Nice to haves
While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.
- Experience managing and leading QA teams
- Hands-on experience in development and QA for large-scale systems involving multiple teams and stakeholders
- Experience performing QA in Agile development environments
- QA experience for Web applications and SaaS products
- Professional experience as a software engineer
Compensation
¥8,000,000 ~ ¥12,000,000 annually.
