QA Engineer

This QA Engineer role focuses on the EventHub web service, a platform used for webinars, conferences, exhibitions, academic meetings, and business meetings. The service supports event delivery, data analysis, customer communication, lead generation, and sales activity.

The main responsibilities are specification inspection and improvement of the testing and development processes. The engineer is expected to establish and improve test processes and to design and execute software tests for web services. The role works with product engineers to promote construction of a higher-quality system.

The engineering organization has about 13 members, including contractors. The posting describes the surrounding web-engineering work as spanning the server side and front end, with participation in the full development cycle from design and development through QA testing, production release, and operations.

Required experience includes QA or quality assurance for web services, experience building and improving test processes, and experience designing and executing software tests. Experience working at a startup is welcome. Knowledge of web-application security, together with experience applying it in design and implementation, is also welcome. Front-end development using React and TypeScript, and back-end development using Node.js and TypeScript, are welcome.

The listed development environment includes Node.js, NestJS, and TypeScript on the server side; React.js, TypeScript, and styled-components on the front end; MySQL and Redis databases; and AWS infrastructure. Other named tools are Git, GitHub, Slack, Docker, CircleCI, Sentry, JIRA, Zeplin, and Adobe XD.

The position is a permanent employee role with no fixed employment term. The probationary period is three months, with no change in conditions during probation. Salary is decided under company rules based on experience, abilities, and skills. A deemed working-time figure of 40 hours per month is listed. Standard working time is 160 hours per month, with a flextime system and core hours from 12:00 to 16:00.

Work is based on remote work. To promote communication, all employees have an in-office day once a month; attendance is mandatory for permanent employees. The workplace is the 9th floor of Hibiya Fort Tower, 1-1-1 Nishishinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0003. Holidays include a complete two-day weekend, public holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, and three days of paid summer leave. Benefits include a transportation allowance, freedom to choose work clothing, a company-provided Mac with a JIS or US keyboard choice, and social insurance. Indoor smoking is prohibited.