Automation QA Engineer

The role

This full-stack QA engineer will perform manual and automated testing as an SDET. You will automate backend services, APIs, and microservices while also performing exploratory testing and usability verification to improve the PayPay Card system.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and operate test automation frameworks for batch processing, backend services, APIs, and microservices
• Build automated regression and functional test suites
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Verify distributed architectures using mock/stub strategies
• Promote modernization of test strategies for legacy systems
• Implement logging, debugging, and reporting
• Plan, design, execute, and sign-off tests for complex functions in the credit card lifecycle
• Detect usability and functional defects through exploratory testing
• Standardizing QA best practices and expanding them throughout the organization
• Mentoring and guidance for junior QA engineers

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in QA or test automation
• Development/automation skills in object-oriented languages, primarily Java
• Experience with backend/API automation (REST Assured, gRPC, etc.)
• Experience using test frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, and AssertJ
• Experience using CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins, Gradle, etc.)
• Experience using mocking frameworks such as Mockito
• Experience with automation using scripting languages (Python, Shell, etc.)
• Deep understanding of QA processes, test planning and design methods, and bug management processes
• Experience working in an agile development environment

Nice to have

• Experience automating batch jobs
• Experience in QA of legacy systems (e.g., CORBA)
• Experience in QA of mission-critical systems
• Experience in QA in the financial services, payment, and credit card industries
• Experience using container environments such as Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter and Gatling
• Experience using QA management tools (e.g., Zephyr, TestRail, TestLink)
• QA-related certifications such as ISTQB
• Business-level Japanese language skills

Benefits

• Annual leave (up to 14 days in the first year)
• Personal leave (5 days each year)
• PayPay Group's own special paid leave system
• Overtime allowance
• Late overtime allowance
• Commuting and transportation expenses
• Social Insurance (health insurance, employee pension, employment insurance and compensation insurance)
• 401K

Before you apply

• You cannot apply or be selected in parallel with PayPay Corporation, PayPay Card Corporation and PayPay Securities Corporation
• You will have a coding challenge during the QA selection process

About the company

PayPay Card Corporation was established in 2021 to provide users a FinTech service that is more accessible and convenient compared to previous credit cards and credit services, by integrating with the PayPay payment platform.