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SDET (Developer in Test) CQO Office,Tokyo

Money Forward Minato-ku, Tokyo February 27 2026
  • 💴 ¥6.4M ~ ¥11M annually
  • 🏡
    Partially remote
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 💬
    Basic Japanese
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Intermediate level
    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

At Money Forward, we provide various services such as “Money Forward Cloud” for businesses and “Money Forward ME” for individuals to address various financial challenges.

As we continue to add new products and features, it is our utmost priority to ensure rapid development along with quality assurance to satisfy our customers. We are able to deliver speed due to our agile development methodology, however, quality assurance within short cycles is an area that is still evolving, hence the need to strengthen the personnel (SDET) in this area.

Responsibilities

We are looking for SDET (Developer in Test) in our CQO Office.

  • Improvement of test coverage for unit testing
  • Assurance of upstream quality using metrics
  • Automation of testing using tools like Selenium or Playwright
  • Automation of non-functional testing using Chaos Engineering and similar methods
  • Prototype and validate new approaches through proof of concept, graduate successful ideas into production-grade.
  • Optimize performance of tools and pipelines to minimize execution time and infrastructure cost.
  • Track and report quality metrics (coverage, defect trends, CFR, MTBF/MTTR, p95 latency, error rate) via dashboards and concise write-ups.
  • Research emerging technologies in quality engineering and recommend practical adoption paths.

Requirements

  • Minimum 3 years development experience, or test automation experience using scripting languages
  • Holder of ISTQB AL certification or equivalent knowledge
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Processing, Computer Science, or equivalent (e.g., Information Technology Engineer Examination, etc.)
  • Experience building developer tools, test frameworks, or internal platforms; familiarity with version control and CI/CD.
  • Ability to work autonomously and in cross-functional teams; excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.

Nice to haves

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

  • Positive about taking on challenges.
  • Able to communicate effectively with engineers of different nationalities that are based at various overseas locations.
  • Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes.

Compensation

¥6,408,000 ~ ¥11,000,000 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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