Senior QA Engineer

**About the company:** Autify Chuo-ku, Tokyo A test automation platform founded in San Francisco by a team of engineers who were the first Japanese team to graduate from the top US accelerator Alchemist Accelerator. Over 300 companies have implemented our platform. **Responsibilities:** Drive and own the quality output for one team and its product Understand requirements, validate acceptance criteria, design test cases, with the support of the engineering team Create test automation, manage the automation pipeline for the team and run manual tests Track test gaps, quality, and productivity metrics. Work with other engineering teams to improve gaps in this data Understand and fill the product gaps through internal product usage and driving initiatives with the support of engineering and business teams. Design, promote and improve QA processes to maintain high quality without slowing down development. This includes proposing and formulating bug prevention systems. Participate in incident handling and on-call rotations. Requirements Minimum 3 years of QA experience in agile software development processes. Experience working in teams leveraging CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, Github actions, or Jenkins. Experience in developing, implementing or maintaining a scalable test automation strategy using test automation frameworks, such as Selenium WebDriver, Appium or Playwright. Experience in designing and executing a GenAI test strategy, including validation of model behavior, prompt evaluation, and quality assurance of AI-driven features. Experience in collaborating effectively with development engineers to improve QA processes. For example: In addition to finding bugs in the testing phase, you have taken initiatives to prevent issues earlier in the development process (such as by adding automated tests in CI and reviewing specifications by the QA staff). You have worked with development engineers to improve the QA process to release features more frequently. You have demonstrated support for our solution direction by leveraging your understanding of the entire development cycle, software release pain points, and quality challenges, effectively translating this knowledge to benefit our customers. You have attended service specifications and UI/UX review meetings and provided suggestions for improving the software quality. Until a Visa can be issued, being able to work from your own country with some overlap with Japanese business hours. Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Experience in driving workshops across different teams and specialties. Experience in release management. Holds ISTQB/JSTQB certification(s). Have the ability to listen, communicate, and learn from developers’ experiences and pain points. (Will need to interface with multiple teams and support projects to improve developer experience) Compensation ¥8,000,000 ~ ¥10,000,000 annually. **Requirements:** Minimum 3 years of QA experience in agile software development processes. Experience working in teams leveraging CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, Github actions, or Jenkins. Experience in developing, implementing or maintaining a scalable test automation strategy using test automation frameworks, such as Selenium WebDriver, Appium or Playwright. Experience in designing and executing a GenAI test strategy, including validation of model behavior, prompt evaluation, and quality assurance of AI-driven features. Experience in collaborating effectively with development engineers to improve QA processes. For example: In addition to finding bugs in the testing phase, you have taken initiatives to prevent issues earlier in the development process (such as by adding automated tests in CI and reviewing specifications by the QA staff). You have worked with development engineers to improve the QA process to release features more frequently. You have demonstrated support for our solution direction by leveraging your understanding of the entire development cycle, software release pain points, and quality challenges, effectively translating this knowledge to benefit our customers. You have attended service specifications and UI/UX review meetings and provided suggestions for improving the software quality. Until a Visa can be issued, being able to work from your own country with some overlap with Japanese business hours. **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Experience in driving workshops across different teams and specialties. Experience in release management. Holds ISTQB/JSTQB certification(s). Have the ability to listen, communicate, and learn from developers’ experiences and pain points. (Will need to interface with multiple teams and support projects to improve developer experience) **Compensation:** ¥8,000,000 ~ ¥10,000,000 annually.