QA Engineer (Kiseki) at Social Discovery Group

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is a global technology company that builds apps at the intersection of dating, social, and entertainment. The company's portfolio includes 70 social discovery platforms with a focus on AI, game mechanics, and video streaming. We actively support and invest in social discovery startups worldwide through our CVC fund.

More than 500 million people in 150 countries enjoy our products, and we strive to have ten times as many.

SDG invests in social discovery technology startups around the world. Our Investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, RAW, EVA AI, Clubhouse, Magnet, Woebot, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia, Harbour, Space, Auto1, DocSend, AppAnnie, Rapyd, Boom Supersonic, Trading, View, K-Health and many others.

We solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.

Our digital nomad team of more than 1200 professionals works all over the world. Together, we are solving the prevalent problem of loneliness and shaping Social Life 3.0 — a new digital reality where people will be able to fulfil their needs for communication and attention from other people and artificial life forms.

Our teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, Poland, Israel, Turkey, Latvia and many others.

We are looking for a QA Engineer (Manual) to join one of our most rapidly growing products - Kiseki.

Kiseki is a new dating and social interaction product for Japanese market. We aim to solve customer challenges of loneness, isolation and disconnection with digital reality and AI innovation.

Your main tasks will be:

• Test planning. Your competence will include estimating testing deadlines, writing test cases, creating and updating test documentation;
• Testing and stabilization of patches. We adhere to flexible methodologies; we publish changes several times a week;
• Continuous development of the testing process. Continuous improvement of technologies, standardization of routine, repetitive operations, process improvements.

We expect from you:

• Fluent Japanese and English
• Understanding of agile software development principles and the purpose of testing in this process. We are building Continuous Delivery, so you need to at least imagine what it is and how it is achieved;
• Ability to work in a distributed team. The company's employees are located in several cities in different countries. Under such circumstances, it is extremely important to be able to establish communications even with those people who are at a very great distance from you;
• Ability to write test documentation:
  - test cases;
  - checklists;
  - test plans;
  - correctly describe and rank detected defects by importance;
• Technology stack:
  - Understanding of the Client-Server architecture;
  - Jira+Confluence;
  - Testrail;
  - MS SQL Server;
  - Fiddler/Charles;
  - Devtools.

What do we offer:

• 28 days annual paid leave per calendar year and extra 7 paid wellness days per year.
• Social benefits: 50% coverage of health insurance and pension fund expenses by the company.
• Corporate equipment.
• Compensation for public transport - up to 100$ per month. (Commuter fee compensation only applies for the fees spent to get to the office) after the adaptation period.
• Compensation for online English classes after the probation period.
• Bonuses for outstanding task results and successful recommendations for open vacancies.
• Our own line of branded clothing and accessories with corporate logos for various occasions.
• Internal gamified gratitude system: get bonuses from your colleagues and exchange them for days off, our merch, massage/concert/sports certificates, etc.

Sounds good? Join us now!