Applied Materials is a global materials engineering company for the semiconductor, flat panel display, and solar industries, headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and founded in 1967. The company provides specialized equipment, services, and software used to manufacture semiconductor chips, liquid crystal displays, and organic light-emitting diode screens. Operating in more than 20 countries across North America, Europe, and Asia, the publicly traded corporation serves major electronics manufacturers and focuses on advancing nanotechnology and energy-efficient electronics.
HQ: Santa Clara, United States • Solar Energy • Energy & Utilities • Displays & Panel Technology • Advanced Materials • Manufacturing • Hardware • Semiconductors • Semiconductor Manufacturing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1967
≈ $31k – $77k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Relocation • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
ColorKrew is an IT consulting and cloud solutions provider that specializes in digital transformation and workspace optimization for businesses. The company develops proprietary HR and office management tools, including space-booking software and internal communication platforms, to enhance workplace efficiency. By combining custom system integration with cloud implementation services, it helps organizations modernize their IT infrastructure and improve employee collaboration.
Tokyo • Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology
$37k – $57k per year • Senior • 6+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Senior
C#
JavaScript
PHP
Python
TypeScript
DevOps
AWS
Azure
Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub
Mindrift is an expert-sourcing and AI training platform owned by Toloka (a data services enterprise owned by Nebius Group, Nasdaq: NBIS), operating primarily out of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Launched by Toloka CEO and founder Olga Megorskaya to elevate crowd-sourced data generation into high-level human feedback, Mindrift operates on a B2B data-as-a-service (DaaS), custom enterprise AI training contract, and freelance expert marketplace model.
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands • Professional Services • Data Entry & Processing • Cybersecurity • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2014
up to $100k per year • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote (Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore) • Part-Time • Senior • English: C1
JavaScript
Python
TypeScript
Python
FastAPI
Databases
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
Redis
AI/ML
AI Agents
Prompt Engineering
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Docker
Dialpad is an AI-native cloud communications and customer experience platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company provides unified communications and contact center solutions that combine voice calling, business text messaging (SMS/MMS), video conferencing, and contact center operations into a single platform.
Vancouver • Austin • Denver • Tempe • Kitchener • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Conversational AI • Unified Communications • Est. 2011
≈ $30k – $75k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Senior
AI Agents
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
LLM
Edge AI
DevOps
Rest API
QA
Playwright
Postman
Rest-Assured
Selenium
Abbott is a global healthcare company headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois, and founded in 1888. The company develops and manufactures a wide range of products including medical devices for cardiovascular and diabetes care, diagnostic equipment, pediatric and adult nutritionals, and branded generic pharmaceuticals. It operates in over 160 countries with a workforce of approximately 114,000 employees, focusing on life-changing technologies across various stages of healthcare.
HQ: Chicago, United States • Digital Health • Dietary Supplements • Food & Beverages • Pharmaceuticals • Health Care • Diagnostics • Medical Devices • 5000+ employees
≈ $27k – $67k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • English: C1 • Japanese: C1
Money Forward is a leading Japanese financial technology company that develops personal financial management applications and cloud-based corporate software. The firm offers comprehensive SaaS platforms for accounting, payroll, and expense management that cater primarily to small and medium-sized enterprises. By automating back-office workflows and aggregating diverse financial data, the organization helps individuals and businesses streamline their operations and gain greater visibility into their financial health.
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Financial Services • Personal Finance • FinTech • Est. 2012
$63k – $95k per year • Staff+ • Nagoya • Remote (Japan, India) • Full-Time • Staff • Japanese (Optional)
Kotlin
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
AWS
Kubernetes
Terraform
GitHub
$51k – $108k per year • Tokyo • Remote (Japan, India) • PhD • Full-Time • Japanese: C1 (Optional)
AI Agents
Cybersecurity
CIS Benchmarks
Microsoft Entra ID
NIST CSF
≈ $36k – $91k per year (Estimated) • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time
IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the life sciences industry. IQVIA creates intelligent connections across all aspects of healthcare through its analytics, transformative technology, big data resources and extensive domain expertise. IQVIA Connected Intelligence™ delivers powerful insights with speed and agility - enabling customers to accelerate the clinical development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments that improve healthcare outcomes for patients.
HQ: Durham, United States • Data Quality • Cybersecurity • Data & Analytics • Health Care • Clinical Research • 5000+ employees
≈ $12k – $49k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • Tokyo • Remote (Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior • Japanese: C1
CoverGo is an insurance technology company headquartered in Hong Kong and founded in 2017. The company sells a no-code core insurance platform covering policy administration, claims, underwriting, and distribution, connected through APIs so insurers can launch products without replacing legacy systems. It works with insurers, brokers, and banks across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.
HQ: Hong Kong • AI Agents • Artificial Intelligence • Middleware Software • Software • FinTech • Financial Services • Insurance • 51-200 employees • Est. 2017
Junior • 2+ years exp • Kathmandu • Remote (AMER, EMEA, Asia) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior • English: B2
Senior • 4+ years exp • Kathmandu • Remote (AMER, EMEA, Asia) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior
Mujin develops software for industrial robotics that enables vision-guided motion planning and real-time execution for warehouse automation and manufacturing. Its flagship controller integrates perception, motion planning, and robot control to allow teachingless operation of robotic arms for tasks such as case packing, palletizing and piece picking. The company primarily serves logistics, e-commerce fulfillment and manufacturing customers globally from its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.
Tokyo • Okazaki • Software • Industrial Automation • Robotics • Industrial Robotics • Logistics & Warehouse Robotics
≈ $39k – $97k per year (Estimated) • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Japanese
Canonical is the publisher of Ubuntu, the world's most widely used Linux distribution, headquartered in London. Founded in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth, the company provides enterprise-grade services, support, and security for open-source software, enabling organizations to deploy and manage workloads consistently across diverse environments. Their portfolio spans the entire compute spectrum - from public and private cloud infrastructure (OpenStack), container orchestration (Kubernetes/MicroK8s), and data center management to specialized edge and IoT computing.
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Artificial Intelligence • Software • Information Technology • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2004
≈ $107k – $213k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • Remote • Bachelor's Degree • Staff
Ubuntu
Cybersecurity
ISO 27001
NIST CSF
Cogent Labs（コージェントラボ）は、最先端のAI技術を用いた実用性の高いサービスの開発・提供を通じて、生産性向上や労働力不足等の社会課題の解決を目指す企業です。
Tokyo • Natural Language Processing • Data & Analytics • Artificial Intelligence
$25k – $44k per year • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Japanese: C2
Abbeal is a French tech consulting company specializing in software engineering, digital product development, and IT transformation. The firm provides end-to-end support for digital initiatives, offering expertise in modern web and mobile application development, cloud architecture, and agile product management. With offices across France and Canada, Abbeal partners with startups, scale-ups, and large enterprises to build scalable, high-performance digital solutions.
Tokyo • Nagoya • Information Technology • Artificial Intelligence • Software
$44k – $82k per year • Senior • Tokyo • Remote (Japan) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
TypeScript
DevOps
GitHub
Accept global payments on your website with KOMOJU, in just a few clicks. KOMOJU is the payment gateway of choice for merchants worldwide.
Tokyo • Commerce • Financial Services • FinTech • Payments
≈ $13k – $51k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Relocation • Full-Time • Junior
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
TypeScript
Ruby
Capybara
RSpec
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Datadog
QA
Playwright
Selenium
Fiserv is a global financial technology and payments company that provides core banking systems, merchant processing, and electronic payment solutions. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the firm powers transaction processing and digital banking infrastructure for financial institutions, businesses, and consumers worldwide. It is widely known for operating major financial platforms like the Clover point-of-sale system and the Zelle peer-to-peer network.
HQ: Milwaukee, United States • Financial Services • FinTech • Banking • Payments • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1984
≈ $27k – $67k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 6+ years exp • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
DevOps
Jenkins
GitHub
Management
Jira
QA
Appium
Cypress
Selenium
PayPay is Japan's leading QR code and mobile digital payments platform, launched in 2018 as a joint venture between SoftBank Group and Yahoo Japan (LINE Yahoo). The service allows consumers to pay at millions of physical merchants and online stores, transfer money instantly to friends, and pay utility bills directly using their smartphones. By driving cashless adoption across the country through aggressive rewards programs and widespread merchant integration, PayPay has grown into a major fintech ecosystem serving tens of millions of users.
Tokyo • Financial Services • FinTech • Payments
≈ $18k – $56k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Tokyo • Remote (Japan) • Full-Time • Middle • Japanese (Optional)
Model Context Protocol
OpenAI
RAG
DevOps
Jenkins
GitHub
QA
Selenium
amptalk is a Japan based technology company that provides software for conversation intelligence and sales support. Its platform records and analyzes business calls and online meetings to help sales teams review conversations and manage knowledge.
Tokyo • Artificial Intelligence • Sales & Marketing • Sales Enablement
$44k – $60k per year • Senior • 7+ years exp • Tokyo • Remote (Japan) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node JS
Electron
Databases
DynamoDB
PostgreSQL
Frontend
Nuxt.js
Vue.js
DevOps
AWS
Azure
CI/CD
GCP
GitHub Actions
GitHub
QA
Cypress
Playwright
Selenium
Gilead Sciences is a American biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and commercializes innovative medicines for life-threatening diseases. Founded in 1987 and headquartered in Foster City, California, the company is globally recognized for transforming HIV treatment and advancing curative therapies for hepatitis C. Listed on the NASDAQ, it also focuses on developing targeted therapies in oncology, cell therapy, and inflammatory conditions worldwide.
Foster City • Cambridge • Mississauga • Shanghai • Madrid • Biopharma • Health Care • Pharmaceuticals • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1996
≈ $31k – $77k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Senior • Japanese
HENNGE is a Japanese software company that operates in the field of cloud security and access management. It offers services such as secure email gateways, single sign-on, and access control solutions that help enterprises integrate and protect cloud applications and corporate IT systems.
Tokyo • Cybersecurity • Cloud Security • Identity Management • Est. 2014
≈ $30k – $94k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • In office (Tokyo, Japan) • Relocation • Full-Time • Middle • Japanese
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Management
Google Workspace
Ispace (TYO: 9348) is a global commercial lunar exploration and space infrastructure enterprise headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with regional subsidiaries operating in Luxembourg and the United States (Denver, Colorado). Founded in 2010 by CEO Takeshi Hakamada, the publicly traded company has raised over $200 million in private equity and government grants from investors including Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), Development Bank of Japan (DBJ), Suzuki Motor, and Japan's Space Strategy Fund.
HQ: Tokyo, Japan • Satellite Manufacturing • Space Services • Space & Aerospace
≈ $30k – $75k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
DevOps
Git
Grafana
GitLab
SpaceTech
Yamcs
Manulife is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We have more than 38,000 employees, over 115,000 agents serving ~33 million customers worldwide, and over $1.3 trillion in assets under management and administration.
HQ: Toronto, Canada • Financial Services • Insurance • 1001-5000 employees
≈ $40k – $99k per year (Estimated) • Remote/Hybrid (Tokyo, Japan) • Full-Time
Salary range
| Seniority |
Jobs |
25% |
Median |
75% |
| Senior |
8 |
$47K |
$53K |
$53K |
| All levels |
23 |
$40K |
$53K |
$64K |
Few employers in this selection publish pay, so these figures are Alion estimates built from comparable listings by role, level and country. Gross annual, converted to USD.
The market right now
Alion currently lists 32 open QA Engineer jobs in Tokyo from 28 companies. 5 of them were posted or refreshed in the last seven days. 24 of the employers have posted something in the last three months, which is the pool worth watching if you are starting a search now. Every listing links straight to the employer, so you apply on their own board rather than through an intermediary.
What these roles pay
Most employers in this selection do not publish a figure, so the range below is Alion's own estimate, derived from 23 comparable listings priced by role, level and country. Across them the middle half of the market sits between $40K and $64K a year, with a median of $53K. Figures are gross annual amounts converted to US dollars, so roles in different currencies stay comparable.
Where the work is
The largest concentrations of these roles are Japan (27) and Nepal (2). 34% of the listings are fully remote and a further 28% are hybrid, so a large part of this market is open to you regardless of where you live.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open QA Engineer jobs in Tokyo right now are Money Forward (3), CoverGo (2), bitbank (2), Applied Materials (1), ColorKrew (1), and Mindrift (1). Each company page on Alion carries its size, funding stage, tech stack and every other position it has open, so you can judge the employer before you spend an evening on the application.
What employers ask for
Reading across the current listings, the tools that come up most often are Python (10), TypeScript (8), Selenium (6), JavaScript (6), GitHub (6), AWS (6), AI Agents (4), and Playwright (3). The counts are how many of these openings name each one, which is a better guide to what is actually being hired for than a generic skills list.
Relocation, visas and equity
Of the current QA Engineer jobs in Tokyo, 3 offer a relocation package. These are filters on the list above, so you can narrow it to the ones that make a move possible for you.
