Senior QA Manual Engineer (fluent Japanese)

Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies which unites more than 50 brands. For more than 20 years, we have been creating premium international dating services and social discovery apps with a focus on video streaming, AI technologies, entertainment, and game mechanics. Our product portfolio includes Dating.com, Cupid Media, Dil Mil, and many others. The products are already used by more than 500 million users in 150 countries around the world.

SDG Invests in social discovery technology startups around the world. Our Investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, Wildly, RAW, EVA AI, Clubhouse, Magnet, Tubit, Woebot, BamBam, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia, Harbour, Space, Auto1, DocSend, AppAnnie, Rapyd, Boom Supersonic, Trading, View, K-Health and many others.

We solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.

Our digital nomad team of more than 900 professionals works all over the world. Our international team of like-minded people and professionals solves ambitious daily tasks and creates truly global products. We value focusing on results, a proactive approach, and we are always looking for new and unconventional ideas.

Our teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, Poland, Israel, Turkey, Latvia, Japan, and many others.

We are seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join Kiseki - our new dating and social interaction product in the Japanese market.

Your main tasks will be:

• Test planning. Your competence will include estimating testing deadlines, writing test cases, creating and updating test documentation;
• Testing and stabilization of patches. We adhere to flexible methodologies; we publish changes several times a week;
• Continuous development of the testing process. Continuous improvement of technologies, standardization of routine, repetitive operations, and process improvements.
  

We expect from you:

• Fluent Japanese and English;
• Understanding of agile software development principles and the purpose of testing in this process. We are building Continuous Delivery, so you need to imagine at least what it is and how it is achieved;
• Ability to work in a distributed team. The company's employees are located in several cities in different countries. Under such circumstances, it is essential to be able to establish communications even with those people who are at a very great distance from you;
• Ability to write test documentation:
  - test cases;
  - checklists;
  - test plans;
  - correctly describe and rank detected defects by importance;
• Technology stack:
  - Understanding of the Client-Server architecture;
  - Jira+Confluence;
  - Testrail;
  - MS SQL Server (or other databases);
  - Fiddler/Charles;
  - Devtools.
  

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• Full payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• ​Health benefits. If you are not eligible for Corporate Medical Insurance, the company will compensate up to $1000 gross per year per employee according to the paychecks. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance, or on doctor's fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• ​Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in the locations where we have offices or co-working. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for time off, merch, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.
  

If you have the required skills, expertise, and passion for quality assurance, we would love to hear from you!