QA Engineer, Accounting Report System Development (Tokyo)

【Only applicants residing in Japan are eligible to apply.】

Overview

As a QA Engineer, you will be responsible for the quality of reporting features for our accounting cloud service.

“Money Forward Cloud ERP” is a cloud-based composable ERP (modular ERP) that has our own SaaS applications for corporate back-office operations from the Accounting, Finances, and Human Resources fields as its module applications. The “Money Forward Cloud Accounting Plus” is an accounting module from the composable ERP modules.

Our team is developing reporting features for the accounting module, which our users desire. The new reporting features allow users to check their company’s financial status easily and quickly. Additionally, we are addressing performance improvements for existing reporting functionalities. We must handle various development epics while keeping quality so that users can grasp proper figures to proceed with their work and relish our service's comfortable UX. 

This position is expected to design and implement proper testing initiatives to keep or improve the quality of our reporting functionalities to users’ satisfaction.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Understand functional and non-functional specifications to be tested during the development cycle
• Design test perspectives and cases for the accounting report domain
• Conduct manual tests for the accounting report domain
• Design and implement automated tests to reduce manual testing efforts
• Communicate and collaborate with team members, Engineering Manager, Product Manager, Designer, and any other stakeholders to ensure completing its needed QA activities
• Ship software to the production environment with high quality
• Monitor the production environment and if any issues happen, fix and recover the system along with proper procedure to keep quality and sort out preventive actions for incidents
• Share your knowledge with team members and other engineers

Required Skills and Experience

• ISTQB or JSTQB qualification or equivalent knowledge.
• 3+ years of software testing experience
• At least 1 year of software development experience as an engineer
• Experience with web application testing
• Experience with designing and conducting manual testing
• Experience with implementing automated testing
• Experience with working in an Agile/Scrum team
• Team player
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Able to commute to the office in Tokyo two days per week

Preferred Skills and Experience

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

• Experience with accounting domain service development and operations (e.g. accounting, reporting)
• Experience with non-functional testing tools
• Experience with agile testing methodologies
• Experience with establishing QA strategies
• Successful track record of developing quality software products and shipping production-ready software
• Interest in learning Japanese

Language Requirements

• English: Fluent in both written and verbal
• Japanese: Not required (Interest in learning is a plus)

Environment

At Money Forward, we provide an environment where we can create world-class services together, and we are looking forward to welcoming you.

• Provided PC Specs: We provide PCs equipped with the latest CPUs (MacOS or Windows). Custom-made PCs tailored to business requirements and replacements with the latest OS are also possible.
• Systems to Enhance the Development Environment: Peripheral devices necessary for work (such as displays, mice, keyboards) can be purchased as office supplies. Generally, you can choose from standard products (catalog), and if conditions are met, you can apply for non-standard products as well.
• Money Forward Library: We have a library system where you can freely borrow books, ranging from technical books to management books. Desired books can be purchased at the company's expense.
• Referral Driven: We cover the cost of recruitment meals. There is a referral reward system.
• Conference Participation Support: The company partially covers participation in domestic and international conferences, such as RubyKaigi and Google I/O."