Manual Tester

Role: Manual Tester

Location: Shirokane, Minato City, Tokyo

Years of Experience: 5 to 12 years of IT experience in Testing Project

Industry:Insurance (Life & P&C) / Financial Services

Phase:Testing / QA

Notes:

* Fluent Japanese and English communication skills required.

* Ability to coordinate with Customer SMEs from Business & IT, Onsite and Offshore teams.

* Experience in Insurance (Life & P&C) or Financial Services domain preferred.

* Knowledge of GDPR rules preferred.

[Position/Case Summary/Work Content]:Manual Tester

Job Responsibilities:

1. Fluent in reading, writing, and conversing in both Japanese and English languages to establish good coordination and communication with Customer, Onsite and Offshore teams.

2. Actively involve in the primary responsibilities that include but not limited to:

* Create test plans, design test cases, and define test data.

* Execute test cases to verify functional and non-functional requirements and capture the results.

* Identify, document, and track defects for closure by working with developers, product managers and other teams.

* Effectively communicate testing progress, issues, and risks to the stakeholders.

* Perform in-sprint, integration, and regression testing for web and backend services.

* Perform API and interface integration testing, ensuring end-to-end business process validation.

3. Actively contribute towards various Transformation initiatives (Process maturity, Testing efficiency, DevOps automation, Security vulnerability remediation, etc.) to achieve the project goals.

4. Mentor and guide junior team members while assigning and tracking testing tasks for closure without any schedule, quality, and cost slippages.

5. Participate in Agile ceremonies, providing feedback and estimates for QA activities.

6. Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and QA leads in a distributed, multicultural environment.

[Requirements]

Minimum Qualifications:

* Knowledge and hands-on experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) in Insurance (Life & P&C) or Financial Services domains.

* Must have 5 to 12 years of IT experience in Testing projects.

* Experience writing and executing detailed test cases/scripts and clear test documentation.

* Understanding of Agile/sprint-based QA and distributed team collaboration.

* Ability to effectively coordinate with Customer SMEs from Business & IT, Onsite and Offshore teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

* Hands-on experience with automation and integration testing tools (Selenium, Playwright, SoapUI, Postman, etc.).

* Familiarity with test data management and synthetic data generation (GenRocket).

* Basic SQL/database testing (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and familiarity with CI/CD environments.

* Knowledge of GDPR rules.

Japanese Language Requirement:

* Fluent – Capable of speaking in professional meetings, negotiations, and preparing documents, though some nuances may not be fully understood at the native level.

English Language Requirement:

* Business Advanced – Able to participate in both internal and external meetings, contribute to discussions and Q&A, and prepare documents/emails with limited use of translation tools.