QA Manager

 

About PayPay Securities

 

PayPay is a FinTech company that has surpassed 69 million users (as of May 2025) in 6 years since its launch in 2018, is rapidly expanding its business scale as a payment platform used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan.

PayPay Securities Corporation provides a unique and familiar asset management service that anyone can easily use in their daily lives as a specialized smartphone brokerage firm that can be used through PayPay.

As a member of the PayPay Group, we are refining our products at an overwhelming speed that no other company can imitate, and we will promote the spread of cashless payments in Japan and the financial life platform that uses them at a dash. We are looking for people who are passionate about these things as professionals, who can identify issues on their own, and who can work together with others to create new value.

※ Please note that you cannot apply or be selected in parallel with PayPay Corporation, PayPay Card Corporation and PayPay Securities Corporation.

 

 

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Job Description

PayPay Securities, as an important part of PayPay’s financial ecosystem, has launched “Point Management” with over 20 million users and “PayPay Asset Management, the first initiative in Japan that enables asset management on a payment application. Now that the business foundation of the financial ecosystem is finally in place, we intend to expand our business to change the structure of asset management in Japan, with the main target being those who have not yet started asset management or were not interested in it before.

To achieve our goal, PayPay Securities is preparing to bring in technical talents not only from Japan but also globally, just as we have done with PayPay’s product division. As a QA Manager, you will be collaborating with engineers, designers and QAs, and working in an environment where you can be one of the founding members to build up a new organization within PayPay Securities.

※ Please note that this job is for Japan Residents Only

 

Highlights of the opportunity:

• Be part of the team to build up a new organization and environment
• Develop skills in making business plans from a high perspective, through the high-level coordination with departments and affiliated companies within PayPay Group to support the top management’s decision
• Gain experience in a company that aiming to be the pioneer in the market to provide a brand new Mobile Securities services, which never had before during the era of Financial reformation
• Able to utilize PayPay's services and user base

 

Responsibilities:

• Leading weekly release test cycles as QAM, including test planning, test execution, test progress control, test result analyze/issue triage and reporting for QA Functional and Non-Functional tests.
• Leading Roadmap Projects, responsible for product STLC, create Test Plan, define Test Scope, track status for test progress, and ensure software quality.
• Prepare test data, tools, and environment needed for test execution
• Report found defects, track status of reported defects, and verify fixes
• Design, create and review test cases based on specifications by closely collaborating with QA Engineers
• Maintain and update the master test cases, including collaboration with Automation QA

 

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of QA Lead / QA Manager experience (or, 5+ years of QA Engineer/Tester experience)
• Ability to understand and analyze technical specifications. Experience in test planning, defining necessary test scope for designing and creating test cases
• Strong knowledge of QA methodology and QA tools, such as ALM, TestRail, TestLink, QASymphony, Zephyr etc.
• Familiar with test automation process and tools, such as Appium, Selenium, UFT, Load Runner, Cucumber etc.
• Strong organizational and problem solving skills with attention to detail
• Have excellent verbal communication skills and documentation skills
• Business level in Japanese (Native Japanese speaker Or JLPT N1 equivalent)

 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in working on QA in securities & finance (especially in online stock trading service), or similar industries
• Experience in testing mobile applications (Android and iOS)
• ISTQB or equivalent certificate
• Experience in working under a fast-paced development environment in IT/Web industry (experience of Agile development is a plus)
• Experience in developing the standardization of QA process and methodology, and/or proposing improvement in QA processes
• Experience in proposing and introducing new QA tools in the test process
• Experience in carrying out projects by collaborating with other teams and external vendor partners
• Experience in in-house service operation

 

The ideal candidates at PayPay Securities

• PayPay 5 senses

 

Working Conditions

 

Employment Status

• Full Time

Office Location

• Hybrid Workstyle (flexible working style including Remote and office)　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　※There are no fixed rules regarding office attendance in Product group; it depends on each individual's discretion.

Work Hours

• Super Flex Time (No Core Time)
• In principle, 9:00am-5:45pm + 1h break (actual working hours: 7h45m + 1h break)

Holidays

• Every Sat/Sun/National holidays (In Japan)
• Summer break (2 days / generally taken between July 1st and September 30th / subject to change depending on month of employment)
• Year-end and New Year holidays (12/31-1/3)

 

Paid leave

• Annual paid leave (1 to 10 days depending on the month of joining will be granted upon employment date)

Salary

• Annual salary paid in 12 installments (monthly)
• Based on skills, experience and abilities
• Review once a year
• Special Incentive once a year *Based on company performance and individual contribution and evaluation
• Overtime allowance, Late overtime allowance, Commuting and transportation expenses, Work style support allowance

Benefits

• Social Insurances (Health insurance, Employee pension, Employment insurance and Industrial accident compensation insurance)
• 401K