QA Engineer

Summary

Join KOMOJU's QA team as their second QA engineer and contribute to strengthening the quality of their cross-border payment gateway products. Collaborate closely with engineering teams, product managers, and stakeholders to understand technical requirements and provide design input. Develop and execute test plans, perform manual and exploratory testing, identify and document defects, and enhance existing test automation. You will build innovative test automation solutions and work to empower other engineers to deliver high-quality products. The role requires proficiency in at least one programming language and experience with automated testing tools. KOMOJU offers a remote-work friendly environment with additional benefits.

Requirements

• Be proficient in at least one programming language (e.g. JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby - though not limited to these)
• Have hands on experience with automated testing tools like PlayWright, Capybara, and RSpec (though not limited to these)
• Have excellent debugging skills
• Be able to run with ambiguous requirements and have a strong bias to action
• Have a tester mindset, be curious, and come up with interesting test scenarios
• Have experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
• Have experience with designing release/regression/smoke-testing strategies
• Have experience with manual and exploratory testing
• Have experience creating and executing test plans

Responsibilities

• Proactively contribute to our QA processes in order to strengthen the quality of our products
• Work closely with engineering teams, product managers and other stakeholders to understand technical requirements and provide input on design considerations
• Work with teams to develop test plans appropriate for the scope and scale of our projects
• Execute manual and exploratory tests
• Identify, document, and prioritize defects and issues
• Strengthen our existing test automation tooling
• Building new and innovative test automation solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience with performance testing
• Have experience with testing mobile applications
• Have experience with multilingual applications
• Have experience using observability tools (e.g. Datadog)

Benefits

• Embrace remote work while also offering office space for those who prefer in-person collaboration
• 10 days regular vacation, additional 5 days summer and 5 days winter vacation
• Paid birthday holiday
• Budget for self-learning allowance, to ensure our employees’ skills remain current
• Language training for Japanese