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 growing QA team. The QA team is dedicated to measuring, understanding, and communicating the overall quality of our products. This involves reviewing design specifications, executing tests, reporting technical issues, building innovative automated testing solutions, and closely collaborating with engineering teams, product managers, and other stakeholders. You will be one of the first few members of our passionate QA team, collaborating closely with our lead QA engineer to work towards our vision for quality.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for quality improvement, and advocate for process change 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
• Develop test plans appropriate for the scope and scale of our projects
• Execute manual and exploratory tests
• Identify, document, and prioritize defects and issues
• Build new and innovative test automation solutions
• Contribute toward building a culture of quality

Requirements

• You are proficient in at least one programming language (e.g. JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby - though not limited to these) - a bonus if you have experience that goes beyond writing automated tests
• In-depth 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 for our customers
• 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