About us

Money Forward aims to move people’s lives forward by offering various SaaS applications for Back-office operations and eliminating non-essential work from complex daily tasks, and radically changing the quality of and time spent on work.

In the HR domain, we are providing the following six products;

Money Forward Cloud Payroll
Money Forward Cloud HRIS (Human Resource Information System)
Money Forward Cloud Attendance
Money Forward Cloud Tax Adjustment
Money Forward Cloud Social Insurance
Money Forward Cloud My Number

It is a competitive market with a lot of room for expanding our market share. That is why this area became a primary focus for Money Forward which accelerated our growth.

As the number of users of our products increases and our organisation expands,  we are looking for people who can contribute to improving the quality and productivity of our products as SDETs (Software Development Engineers in Test).

Overview

Until now, Money Forward's QA organisation has been limited in its activities due to the fact that quality activities were carried out through an in-house contracting system, making it difficult to guarantee a high level of product quality or to design quality over the medium to long term.

In order to overcome this barrier, Money Forward decided to commit to a 10 year milestone to push forward ‘quality’, including the following: 

• The appointment of Juichi Takahashi, a quality expert well know in the industry, as CQO
• The establishment of CQO Office in 2023 with the mission of improving quality across the entire company, including overseas offices

The mission of the CQO Office is to formulate a quality strategy for Money Forward as a whole. As of such, it became a high priority to build a team of professional QA engineers who can put these strategies into practice.

At present, the main focus is on quality improvement for each product, and the HR Solutions Division (HRS) is one of the divisions strongly committed to quality improvement. The division is experiencing rapid growth coupled with the globalisation of the development organisation, and the launch of new products, so it is essential to ensure continued improvement in quality across the product line and organisation.

Therefore, we are looking for someone who can oversee multiple HRS products from a cross-cutting perspective and work with the development team to lead the introduction of quality improvement activities, such as shifting left and automation, in line with new development processes such as Agile.

Responsibilities and Duties

You will be responsible for a wide range of tasks, from building and implementing a QA strategy to project management for our HR Solution product line-up, ‘Money Forward Cloud’, with the mission of improving quality for the full development lifecycle. 
*Right after joining us, we would like you to lead the introduction of API test automation for HR Solution product line-up.

• Test strategy formulation (unit testing, integration testing, system testing)
• Automation strategy formulation and implementation (Playwright, Postman, etc.)
• Code review, unit test review (code quality)
• Quality analysis, quality improvement
• Review of functional and non-functional requirements and development of test cases for those requirements

Required Skills and Experience

• ISTQB or JSTQB certification, or equivalent knowledge. Advanced Level certification is especially recommended.
• Experience implementing test strategies and execution, with an awareness of the test pyramid in terms of QCD (Quality Cost Delivery) and automated testing
• At least 3 years' experience working as a developer or SDET in software development
• Experience leading a test team/SDET team made up of multiple members
• Someone who can proactively promote increasingly sophisticated testing techniques

Language Requirements

• English: Business-level English ability (equivalent to TOEIC 700 or above)
• Japanese: Conversation level (not required but recommended)

Nice to have

• Experience of improving development processes
• Knowledge of architecture and refactoring
• Experience of building/maintaining CI/CD environments
• Enjoys taking on challenges and tackling new problems from scratch