Visa problem - switching to new job field

I switched to from an English teaching job to a job in computer software. However, I do not hold an engineering degree as I majored in East Asian studies. My current company (the software job) explained to me it might be difficult to get my visa since I do not hold any experience or a degree in engineering. I am a self taught programmer who is currently working on a completely legit master's program online in computer science as these things are becoming popular these days. I plan to graduate next May.

My company says they have hired a specialist to work on the problem and there will be nothing to worry about as they assume I will most likely get the visa. Yet, me being the paranoid dip that I am decided to look things up online. And well enough, it does seem like it will be very difficult for me to renew my visa since I currently have no qualifications yet in engineering. My visa runs up at the end of October, so I am starting to fret.

I love this job, and I am finally doing what I want to do in life, but I am afraid that I will either have to go back home or look for another English teaching job. I knew a friend that didn't have and engineering degree and somehow landed a computer programming job. Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know the likelihood I can get a visa under my current job?

Thanks for the help.

If you do have a degree, and your employer deems you capable of doing the job and wants to hire you for a decent pay, I see no problem actually. (It will be a different story if you got the English teaching job on the merit of teaching experience in the absence of a degree.)

Did someone here rather recently mentioned a merger between Engineer & Humanities resident status?

My worry is the kind of job title I have, "computer software engineer" and the kind of degree I have, " East Asian studies."

Maybe this is out of date but according to this I need a degree in a field of natural science to gain the visa under as an engineer .

http://visa-immi.com/workingvisa/humanities/

which I do not have .

Engineering
International services
Humanities
are merged to one status.

If he has Instructor Visa, then it is still different. He needs to switch to the category i mentioned above.

Engineering visa requires
10 years of experience in i.t or engineering field OR
university diploma
- according to immigration website

In my case:
I have university degree (not engineering or IT)
i have certificate (IT) (i only attended short course in my country)
I dont have 10 years experience. Im too young to have that.

So my suggestion, if your company will find it hard to help you switch status, then get a short course related to IT (temple university japan has) so you have a certificate to show to the immigration.
Hope that helps.

Yes, thank you. That does alleviate my worries quite a bit. I have a verifiable online certificate from coursera in android development. Maybe that will will? How long was the temple course?