Automation QA Engineer (AI)

Location: Hybrid workstyle in Japan; office attendance is expected according to organizational guidelines and team objectives.

Company

hirify.global is a FinTech company providing digital payment products and services to more than 75 million users.

What you will do

• Analyze requirements and develop comprehensive test strategies, scenarios, and detailed test cases for functional and non-functional validation.
• Prepare test data, tools, and environments; execute automated and manual test cases and document results.
• Track, verify, and report defects while analyzing outcomes and recommending effective solutions.
• Maintain test documentation, regression coverage, and knowledge-sharing practices across the QA organization.
• Use AI tools, OpenAI APIs, prompt engineering, RAG, and MCP integrations to accelerate test automation and exploratory testing.
• Validate and monitor AI/ML systems for bias, drift, hallucinations, robustness, and performance deviations; provide guidance to junior QA engineers.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience developing, executing, and maintaining automated tests for mobile applications, web applications, and/or APIs.
• Professional experience with Appium, Selenium, or Rest-Assured, plus practical use of Cucumber.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or Bitrise and a basic understanding of microservices testing challenges.
• Experience with AI productivity tools, OpenAI API usage, key management, embeddings, LLM integration workflows, and MCP server concepts.
• Strong technical analysis, test design, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• ISTQB or equivalent QA certification and experience in Agile environments.
• Financial or payments domain experience and experience standardizing QA processes.
• Performance testing experience with Gatling, wrk, or JMeter.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, bash or CLI scripting, and web or mobile application development.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a hybrid workstyle and super flex time without core hours.
• Annual leave, personal leave, and special paid leave for illness, medical visits, and family or pet care.
• Social insurance, employee pension, employment insurance, compensation insurance, and a 401K plan.
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available.
• Translation and interpretation support, with salary paid in 12 monthly installments and reviewed annually.