Quality Assurance Careers in Japan: What 261 Job Postings Ask For
Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.
- 261
- 93
- 39%
- 30%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
23
3-4 years of experience
47
5-9 years of experience
26
10+ years of experience
5
12%
28% day-to-day or above
ISO 9001 15%
QC Kentei 5%
Quality Assurance
80%
Quality Control
64%
Data Analysis
16%
Excel
16%
ISO 9001
15%
Production Engineering
13%
Project Management
12%
PowerPoint
11%
261 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
17%
23 postings
3–4 years
15%
38% day-to-day or above
ISO 9001 21%
Quality Control 70% (+18)
47 postings
5+ years
32%
28% day-to-day or above
Quality Assurance 87% (+17)
Stakeholder Management 19% (+17)
Production Engineering 13% (+11)
31 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥7,000,000 · 79 postings state pay
¥6,200,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥7,800,000
Working Conditions
- 126 days
47 postings
- 32%
Fully remote
9
Hybrid
30
On-site
18
261 postings
What Comes Next
People management
11
Senior leadership
5
Specialist track
5
Overseas assignment
5
Internal transfer or rotation
4
Employers naming each step, of 13 that name one
Who Is Hiring
All Quality Assurance openings
261 postings from 93 employers, as of 2026-09-22
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Quality Assurance career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Quality Assurance job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.
Why is there no pay figure at some levels?
A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.
What does "candidate for" mean?
Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.
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