Job description

About KOMOJU

KOMOJU (by Degica) is the leading cross-border payment gateway for Japan. We power payments for companies like video game distribution platform Steam and the popular mobile app TikTok. Today we help thousands of merchants by providing them with the payment infrastructure they need through developer-friendly API’s to integrations on popular platforms like Shopify and Wix; we help our merchants grow in all markets they are expanding.

About the position

We are looking for QA engineers who are passionate about quality to join KOMOJU’s QA team. The QA team is dedicated to testing, measuring, understanding, and communicating the overall quality of our products. This involves reviewing system specifications, executing tests (manual and automated), reporting and documenting technical issues, and closely collaborating with engineering teams, product managers, and other stakeholders. You will be joining as the second QA engineer in the team, collaborating closely with our lead QA engineer to work towards our vision for quality.

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

Requirements

You are proficient in at least one programming language (e.g. JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby - though not limited to these)
Hands on experience with automated testing tools like PlayWright, Capybara, and RSpec (though not limited to these)
You love to empower other engineers and strive to understand how to help them deliver quality features and products
You have excellent debugging skills
You can run with ambiguous requirements and have a strong bias to action
You have a tester mindset, are curious, and come up with interesting test scenarios
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS)
Experience with designing release/regression/smoke-testing strategies
Experience with manual and exploratory testing
Experience creating and executing test plans

Nice to Haves

These aren't required, but be sure to mention them in your application if you have them.

Experience with performance testing
Experience with testing mobile applications
Experience with multilingual applications
Experience using observability tools (e.g. Datadog)

Benefits

At Degica, we 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

Required profile