QA Engineer

Paidy is Japan's pioneer and leading BNPL service company. At Paidy, we believe in creating simple, instant experiences to take the hassle out of shopping with a touch of magic.

Paidy offers instant, monthly-consolidated credit to consumers by removing hassles from payment and purchase experiences. Paidy uses proprietary models and machine learning to underwrite transactions in seconds and guarantee payments to merchants. Paidy increases revenue for merchants by reducing the number of incomplete transactions, increasing conversion rates, boosting average order values, and facilitating repeat purchases from consumers. 

Paidy has reached an agreement to join PayPal, the global payments company. Paidy will continue to operate its existing business, maintain its brand and support a wide variety of consumer wallets and marketplaces by providing convenient and innovative services.

Paidy continues to innovate to make shopping easier and more fun both online and offline. For more information, please visit http://www.paidy.com.  

Paidy is looking for a skilled Software QA Engineer committed to achieving high quality software products.

You will be a member of Paidy’s QA Engineering Department, responsible for ensuring the quality of all of Paidy’s products through a combination of automated and manual tests of our apps, websites, APIs and backend platform. You will be working with stakeholders, developers, and teammates to help design and develop test plans and test strategies. 

This is an excellent position for both mid-career and experienced QA Engineers who want to work in an international, fast paced environment using the latest technologies and putting their testing skills and knowledge to the limit.

This position reports to the head of the Quality Assurance Department and as a QA Engineer your primary responsibility will be to: 

• →Create test plans to ensure new Paidy app and Web features are properly verified before release
• →Ensure the Paidy Apps are defect free before every release
• →Track application issues, interact with engineers in other departments to make sure issues are understood and corrected
• →Participate in QA Department internal meetings to plan and prioritize test activities 
• →Work along with highly-skilled and fast delivering Development Teams
• →Constantly learn and suggest improvements within the Department

Our tech stack includes:

• →Test Scripts and Software QA testing frameworks written in Python
• →FrontEnd and BackEnd Testing Libraries and Frameworks such as Selenium, Appium, Pytest BDD.
• →Circle CI + terraform provisioning and deployment

• At least 3 years experience in software testing as Software QA Engineer or SDET
• Knowledgeable on testing techniques, strategies and test design best practices
• Skilled with the Python programming language
• Experience building automated testing frameworks or writing automated tests
• Experience with non-functional testing, such as performance testing
• Great communication skills in order to work along with stakeholders to write test plans for acceptance and functional testing, both FrontEnd and BackEnd
• Experience working with developers in integrating automated tests into the CI/CD process
• Business-level or higher English (both reading and writing) 

• Conversational fluency in Japanese
• Experience in the Fin-Tech or Financial industries

The Paidy team will ask about your user experiences with Paidy Apps during the interview. Please download the Paidy App and try it out!

• iOS: https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/paidy/id1220373112
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paidy.paidy&hl=en&gl=US

For those who are not able to download Paidy App, due to the regional restrictions, please be advised that you download the similar App, such as Klarna, Afterpay, Affirm and so forth, and come up with your opinions on these applications and services.

Please note that you must be eligible to work in Japan.

• Always seek to beat expectations. / 期待値を超える為に常に努力する。
• Display surprising speed and resourcefulness. / 人をスピードと機知で驚かす。
• Overcome weaknesses by leveraging the strength and help of others to win. / 仲間の強みを活かしたり協力を得ることで、自身の弱みや足りない点を克服する。

• Fully support the final decision even if at times you may disagree. / たとえ意見が対立することがあったとしても、最終決定を全面的に受け入れ支持する。
• Acknowledge and gather the power of others, by communicating and collaborating with them. / 仲間の力を認めて活用し、積極的にコミュニケーションをとり、協力する。
• Show a will to own actions and go the extra mile without being asked. / 行動について強いオーナーシップを持ち、言われずとも業務を遂行しきる覚悟を持つ。

• Strive to play an integral role. / 替えの効かない役割を果たす。
• Embrace and bridge differences in perspective, language, and culture. / 異なる意見・考え方、言語と文化の架け橋になる。
• Don’t compromise - raise the bar for yourself and others. / スタンダードを上げ続けることに妥協しない。