Quality Engineer / Software Tester - Japanese Bilingual (minimum N2 level)

IBM

IBM

Quality Assurance

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on May 8, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Quality Engineer with a functional focus, you specialize in designing and executing testing for applications and systems built using custom technologies. Your expertise spans across all levels of testing, including functional, system integration, and end-to-end testing.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Design Test Scenarios: Create optimized test scenarios, plan testing activities, estimate work efforts, and identify test environment and data requirements to ensure thorough testing of applications and systems.

• Execute Testing: Perform manual and automation testing, execute test cases, report test status, and address defects through creation, triage, and resolution to ensure high-quality deliverables.

• Analyze Test Outcomes: Apply analytical and cognitive techniques to analyze test outcomes, driving continuous improvements in testing processes and overall quality.

• Utilize Testing Tools: Leverage various testing tools, BDD/TDD approaches, and test accelerators to enhance test efficiency and quality, ensuring optimal testing outcomes.

• Report Defects: Identify, document, and report defects, collaborating with teams to resolve issues and improve overall product quality.

Required education
Associate's Degree/College Diploma
Preferred education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Japanese Bilingual: Minimum JLPT N2-level proficiency in Japanese (reading, writing, speaking, and listening)

• Amenable to work on a client-based schedule (dayshift, mid-shift, night-shift with dayshift primarily) and in any IBM location in Quezon City (UP Ayala Technohub) or Cebu.

• Exposure to Testing Methodologies: Familiarity with various testing methodologies, including functional, system integration, and end-to-end testing, to design and execute comprehensive testing plans.

• Experience with Testing Tools: Hands-on experience with multiple testing tools, BDD/TDD approaches, and test accelerators to optimize testing efficiency and quality.

• Core Testing Skills: Strong foundation in core testing principles, technical testing, and business domain/processes to create effective test scenarios and plans.

• Manual and Automation Testing: Proficiency in both manual and automation testing, including executing test cases, reporting test status, and addressing defects.

• Analytical Techniques: Understanding of analytical and cognitive techniques to analyze test outcomes and drive continuous improvements in testing processes and overall quality.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Proficiency in Agile Methodologies: Exposure to agile development methodologies and version control systems to enhance collaboration and testing efficiency.

• Knowledge of Cloud Technologies: Familiarity with cloud-based technologies and platforms to expand testing capabilities and stay up-to-date with industry trends.

• Experience with DevOps Tools: Exposure to DevOps tools and practices to improve testing automation, deployment, and delivery of high-quality software.

• JLPT N1-N2 (including Native speakers)

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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