About The Role:

The successful candidate will demonstrate a working knowledge of software testing in various phases of software development cycle, as well as hands-on experience with a multitude of software applications in a corporate network environment including servers, databases, and mail systems.  Leadership experience including supervisory experience or project management is highly desirable.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated individual to gain exposure to the global software development and testing world, while working with cutting-edge technologies.

Responsibilities: 

• Evaluate testing projects based on limited information & client budgets
• Propose design test & scenarios of test plan
• Overseeing functional & linguistic software testing/QA in the onsite testing facility
• Manage operational and technical aspects of projects
• Review identified defects within the software at different levels; from the back-end of the software to UI
• Review test progresses, blocking issues, and defects
• Measure and forecast progress of project, track tester time, schedule freelance testers
• Provide status reports regularly to Test Line Manager/Testing Manager
• Participating client initiated meetings to give project updates and coordinate tasks among developers, test leads, SI and other team testers
• Assisting with IT support function. 

Requirements:

• JAPANESE native speaker. 
• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, Engineering related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Previous experience in software development/testing environment
• Demonstrable system test execution, defect investigation and test reporting skills
• Demonstrable experience in working limited info to design test scope, parameters
• Knowledge of computer networks and Microsoft domain components
• Minimum one year experience with various versions of Windows servers
• Knowledge of MS Exchange server configuration
• Experience using database systems
• Leadership skills
• Highly detailed and organized
• Ability to work under pressure by setting priorities on multiple tasks
• Ability to work on a team and communicate effectively with other team members
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills
• Motivated and ability to learn fast

Desirable skills and abilities:

• Prior client engagement experience
• Prior supervisory experience
• Previous experience in software testing
• Knowledge of test management tools
• MS Excel expertise
• Working knowledge of security setup/firewall configuration
• IT support experience in software development / testing environment