Rakuten Group, Inc. is the largest e-commerce company in Japan, and the third-largest e-commerce marketplace company worldwide, with over 1.5 billion registered users worldwide. The Rakuten brand is recognized worldwide for its leadership and innovation, and provides a variety of consumer and business-focused services including e-commerce, e-reading, travel, banking, securities, credit card, e-money, portal and media, online marketing and professional sports. The company is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Western Europe, and the Americas.
Rakuten Viki is a premier global entertainment streaming site where millions of people discover and consume primetime shows and movies subtitled in more than 200 languages, by our community of fans. With billions of videos viewed and more than 1 billion words translated, Viki brings global entertainment to fans everywhere!
Based in Singapore, reporting to the Engineering Manager, the Engineer, QA role will be responsible for the quality assurance aspects of one or multiple technical areas within the engineering team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Participate in all phases of our shift-left testing process and the entire STLC of projects
- Work with Product Managers to ensure the product requirements are clearly defined, testable, and compatible with existing sets of behaviors
- Design, execute, and automate tests for our web applications and backend APIs
- Produce test reports and act as the person signing off on feature releases
- Collaborate with Development team the identify and resolve issues
- Contribute to the process of selecting and adopting testing automation framework
- Mentor junior QA engineers within the team
Requirements:
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field
- Strong communication skills and are able to explain technical and non-technical concepts to less experienced members of the team, as well as the peers and managers
- 2 to 5 years of working experience in web application testing and automation
- Excellent fundamental knowledge of Software Engineering concepts and STLC life cycle
- Ability to write test plans and test strategy documents
- Good knowledge of API & Web testing is a plus
- Good knowledge of Networking and Operating system concepts
- Have strong troubleshooting and debugging skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to understand functional/technical specifications and analyze data
- Familiarity with HTTP web server basics
Preferred Qualification:
- Exposure with testing automation tools
- Experiences in working in product companies
Rakuten provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Rakuten considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.
