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Bilingual QA Lead - Build Quality Engineering
| Location | Tokyo - 23 Wards |
| Job Type | Temporary |
| Salary | 6 million yen ~ 8 million yen |
Job Description
This role leads the establishment of quality engineering practices across a modern application landscape, enabling engineers to fully own quality in their day‑to‑day work. You will design standards, frameworks, and coaching models that leave a sustainable impact beyond the assignment.
Client Details
Our client is a large financial services and life insurance organisation in Japan, undergoing a significant technology transformation. Its engineering teams are responsible for delivering and evolving enterprise‑scale application platforms while adopting modern cloud, automation, and agile practices.
Description
- Define and drive an organisation‑wide quality engineering strategy aligned with business and engineering goals
- Establish a shared definition of "good quality," including reliability, performance, security, and usability
- Create and maintain QA standards, guidelines, templates, and best practices across engineering teams
- Standardise and select test frameworks and tools for unit, integration, API, UI, performance, and security testing
- Coach and enable engineers to design, implement, and maintain automated and manual tests
- Embed testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with engineering and CI/CD teams
- Integrate QA activities into Agile and hybrid SDLC processes and release workflows
- Define quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting for teams and leadership
- Use data to identify systemic quality issues and drive continuous improvement
- Partner with architecture, platform, security, and product stakeholders to embed quality into solution design
- Support test environment strategy, test data management, and non‑functional testing
- Act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert on quality engineering practices
- Facilitate communities of practice or quality guilds
- Design a clear exit strategy, including documentation, playbooks, and internal champions
Job Offer
- High‑visibility role shaping quality engineering across a major financial organisation
- Exposure to modern cloud technologies and enterprise‑scale systems
- Close collaboration with architecture, platform, security, and product teams
- Access to global learning platforms and certification programs
To apply online please click the 'Apply' button below. For a confidential discussion about this role please contact Serena Wu on +81 3 6627 6137.
General Requirements
| Minimum Experience Level | No experience |
| Career Level | Mid Career |
| Minimum English Level | Fluent |
| Minimum Japanese Level | Fluent |
| Minimum Education Level | Bachelor's Degree |
| Visa Status | Permission to work in Japan required |
Required Skills
- 4+ years of experience in software QA or quality engineering across multiple systems or products
- 1+ year in a QA lead, quality architect, or similar role influencing team or organisational practices
- Proven experience building or significantly improving QA practices in low‑maturity environments
- Strong hands‑on experience with test automation for APIs and/or UIs using mainstream languages and frameworks
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and defining quality gates
- Strong understanding of non‑functional testing (performance, reliability, security, usability)
- High emotional intelligence with a coaching and influencing mindset
- Business‑level Japanese communication skills for technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- Comfortable working in distributed or virtual team environments
- Quality metrics and data‑driven improvement initiatives
- QA Centre of Excellence or cross‑team enablement models
- Secure development and security testing practices
- Performance and load testing tools
- Modern architectures such as microservices or cloud‑native systems
- Agile delivery environments and shift‑left testing approaches
- Experience delivering internal training or workshops
Job Location
- Tokyo - 23 Wards
Work Conditions
| Job Type | Temporary |
| Salary | 6 million yen ~ 8 million yen |
| Industry | Insurance |
