Software QA & Testing Careers in Japan: What 164 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.
- 164
- 92
- 59%
- 57%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
20
3-4 years of experience
41
5-9 years of experience
26
10+ years of experience
9
13%
29% day-to-day or above
Agile
40%
Generative AI
26%
CI/CD
24%
SaaS
24%
Project Management
19%
AWS
18%
Python
18%
API Development
16%
164 postings
Levels by Experience
1–2 years
0%
20 postings
3–4 years
24%
28% day-to-day or above
SaaS 37% (+32)
Stakeholder Management 27% (+17)
Data Analysis 15% (+15)
Generative AI 27% (+12)
Machine Learning 12% (+12)
41 postings
5+ years
17%
42% day-to-day or above
Agile 43% (+16)
Generative AI 37% (+10)
35 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥7,800,000 · 93 postings state pay
¥6,600,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥9,000,000
Working Conditions
- 42%
- 26%
Fully remote
11
Hybrid
65
On-site
4
162 postings
What Comes Next
People management
9
Senior leadership
4
Employers naming each step, of 9 that name one
Who Is Hiring
All Software QA & Testing openings
164 postings from 92 employers, as of 2026-09-22
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Software QA & Testing career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Software QA & Testing 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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