Software Engineer, QA Test

About Mercari

We believe the world needs a place where people can exchange their loved goods. That’s why we built Mercari—to connect people who want to buy and sell things of emotional value through their mobile phones. Mercari has grown to become a leading community-powered marketplace that brings together millions of people every day.

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Position

Remote work is also possible.

Mercari’s culture has been central to the company since our founding, with the three core values of Go Bold, All for One, and Be a Pro. In addition, the “Trust & Openness” value was introduced to embody our culture of mutual trust, where information remains transparent and rules are kept to a minimum. Regardless of how big Mercari gets, our culture is essential to achieving our mission and will be promoted throughout our organization.

Work Responsibilities

• As a QA/Test Engineer, you will be part of the process of developing new features and improving current features of the Mercari app from the customers’ point of view
• Working in a fast-paced, quality-focused environment, you will be involved in quality-assurance related activities throughout the entire development process, from planning to final release, while understanding the overall development process

Job description

• Reviewing and providing feedback for plans/specs created by product managers
• Designing/implementing tests for automation testing
• Developing/improving processes for quality-assurance related activities
• Carrying out quality analysis using quantitative/qualitative data to suggest improvements to developments teams
• Collaborating with third-party contractors to build a system for quality assurance

Bold Challenges

• In this position, you will be responsible for quality assurance for Mercari, a marketplace app with 18 million monthly active users
• You will be responsible not only for testing for quality assurance, but also various kinds of tasks such as understanding customer issues, developing processes, analyzing data, and creating quality guidelines in order to assure quality in the overall development process
• Apart from that, this position will allow you to think about quality from the customer’s point of view and how to assure quality from scratch

Your qualification

• 3 years+ experience testing smartphone apps and web systems (designing/implementing tests, test management, optimizing tests)
• 3+ years experience creating/coding automated testing (ex: Espresso, XCUITest, PlayWright)
• Ability to communicate with PMs/engineers in development teams and members in QA teams to solve issues
• Experience in solving problems and improving processes in your team

Will be a plus

• QA experience in working within an Agile Scrum based development process
• Experience in development web / smartphone apps
• Selection of test tools or developing them yourself
• Experience in performance testing, security testing, and internationalization testing
• Software development experience in a CI/CD environment
• Experience in quality analysis

Our Ideal Candidate

• Motivation to provide a high-quality service for our users
• Capable of taking on bold challenges and learning from mistakes
• Capable of working independently and taking the initiative to lead the team to success
• Possesses a strong sense of responsibility and works hard to achieve their goals
• Capable of communicating proactively and producing output in a highly global team

What we offer

• Complete health and social insurance
• Incentive program
• Support systems, including those that benefit employee family members
• Language learning support
• Translation/interpretation support
• *See this page for details

Additional details

Employment Status

Full-time

• Probationary period: First 3 months after joining the company. (During this period your contract conditions will be the same as that of a permanent employee.)

Office Location

Roppongi

• Smoking is prohibited within our offices
• Mercari has introduced a work style policy called “Your Choice.” Each member is free to choose whether they want to work in the office or work fully remote. *Exceptions made for certain kinds of work

Work Hours

• Scheduled working hours: 10 AM – 7 PM
• Currently, due to COVID-19 pandemic, we have introduced a full-flex system without core time to increase the choice of working hours and allow for more flexible working styles. (*does not apply to all positions)

Holidays

• Two days off per week (as well as national holidays, New Year's break, etc.)
• Paid leave, congratulatory and bereavement leave, relax days, sick leave

Salary

• Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
• Based on skills, experience, and abilities
• Reviewed twice a year

Media

Corporate Sites

• Mercari, Inc.
• Souzoh, Inc.
• Mercari US

Owned Media

• Mercari Careers
• Mercari Engineering Portal
• Mercan - Introduces the people that make Mercari
• Mercari US Careers
• Mercari US Blog