QA Engineer

About Us

At Sales Marker, our mission is to create a world where all people and companies can challenge themselves beyond existing boundaries. We’re one of the fastest growing start-ups in Japan and we’re growing at a speed that is twice as fast as Unicorn startups. By using our product, sales teams can improve their work efficiency by 3 times. We have achieved over 900% YoY business growth rate in 2.5 years since our flagship product 「Sales Marker」 was released and we’re currently actively working on a wide range of new product portfolios.

The Team

Our co-founders are from top companies in Japan and the world such as NRI, Keyence, LINE, Microsoft, and PwC. They were selected as 「FORBES 30 UNDER 30 ASIA LIST」 in 2023 . In our Engineering & Product team, we have members from more than 16 countries and they come from top tech companies in the world such as Google, Microsoft, Indeed, and famous tech companies in Japan such as Mercari, LINE, Yahoo, Smartnews, etc. 

Your Job

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for the overall QA activities of our products. You will be involved in all aspects related to product quality, including not only verifying behavior according to specifications, but also reviewing and improving specifications, conducting UI/UX verification, and improving the development process.

• Review and improvement of specifications in the upstream phase of the development process
• Test planning, design, execution, management, and bug reporting
• Negotiation and coordination with engineers
• Promotion of test efficiency and automation for web and backend systems
• Design, implementation, and maintenance of various tests (API, E2E, UI, regression)
• Improvement tasks related to the entire development process, assuming an Agile environment

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in development or QA at a business company
• QA experience in web or mobile applications
• Knowledge and experience in software testing
• Native-level Japanese (including detailed text checks)
• Conversational-level English

Nice to Have

• Experience in E2E test development using Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium
• Experience in setting up test environments and knowledge of CI/CD
• QA experience for services developed with microservices architecture
• Experience testing applications that use databases
• Knowledge and experience in process improvement within projects
• ISTQB/JSTQB Foundation Level certification
• QA experience in the sales industry or SaaS products
• Business-level English

Our Tech Stack

QA

• Frameworks: Playwright, Jest;
• Monitoring: Datadog;
• Project management: Linear;
• Test management: Qase;
• API testing: Postman;
• Others: Github, Github Action, Docker, Figma, UIBakery, Notion, Slack, Gather

*Please note that these are only examples. You will select and implement technologies that best fit our product and team.

Front-end

• TypeScript, React;
• Libraries: Storybook, jest;
• Hosting: Amplify

Server Side/Back-End

• Infrastructure: AWS, ElasticBeanstalk;
• DB: Aurora, ElasticSearch;
• Languages: Go, Kotlin, Typescript;
• Analysis environment: Athena;
• Framework: Express;
• Monitoring: DataDog;
• Others: AWS Lambda, AWS Batch, AWS API Gateway, AWS Glue

Why Us?

• One of the fastest growing Saas startup in Japan with strong financial growth
• Innovative new product development and opportunity to build things from scratch
• Plenty of leadership and career development opportunities.
• Full remote-friendly & full flexible work schedules.
• Global team and English speaking environment.
• Great benefits & perks packages such as Resort Worx, Purchasing Books, Free Weekly Lunch, Offsites, etc.

Working Style

• Remote Work
  We’re remote friendly. We use Zoom and Meet, and recently introduced the virtual office platform Gather to maintain both the quality and quantity of communication while working remotely, ensuring smooth development and operations. We also rent a WeWork office, so coming to the office every day is possible if you prefer.
  
  
• Flexible Work
  You are free to customize your daily working hours.Taking into account the situation within the company and your team, you will manage your schedule and tasks within reasonable limits. Each employee adjusts their working hours to meet the monthly requirement of 8 hours per working day.
  
  
• Work-Life Balance
  We value a healthy work-life balance.Whether you want to focus heavily on work or prioritize your personal time, we believe this is an environment where both approaches can thrive.