Software Development Engineer in Test II - Contractor

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment? Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.

Location: San Mateo, CA - Hybrid
Type: 12-month Contract role

About the role

Do you have a passion for development and automation as well as a driven vision for delivering the best experiences to users? Do you want to work at a company where customers have real passion and excitement for the products you help build? At PlayStation, we are looking for engineers to join a global initiative in building innovative test automation and CI/CD systems. We are looking for self-motivated, quick-starter, and highly proactive individuals to join our Client QA team, who would be responsible for ensuring delivery of features on PlayStation's Mobile App! At PlayStation, we are passionate about innovation, teamwork, and technology. We love building the systems that millions of people use and are our own first customers. We strive to be at the forefront of development technologies and are a diverse company with teams on four continents.

Responsibilities

• Review product requirements and design documents to understand how the feature works on the PlayStation console and create effective testing strategies.
• Plan and complete QA related activities for UI testing; build test plan, test cases, and implement to ensure the quality of new features.
• Build, maintain and improve test automation frameworks, and help teams set up automation infrastructure.
• Develop and implement standard methodologies for automation, continuous build and deploy, automated testing and end-to-end testing.
• Maintenance of the PS5 devices used in testing.
• Passionate about Quality and strives to improve process, proposes best practices and drives their usage within the team.
• Manage various Jenkins Jobs and report statuses.
• Work with Developers, Product Owners to ensure that all features and bug fixes come with automated test coverage.
• Assist with production deployment support and post release.
• Report, track and verify defects.

Requirements

• Minimum BS degree in CS or a related field, or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge.
• Experience in building and executing test plans and test cases.
• Experience writing automated tests in Python, JavaScript or any other programming language.
• Understanding of automation test framework like pytest.
• Experience in setting or configuring up test pipelines as part of Continuous Integration (CI), Jenkins preferred.
• Practical experience using development and deployment tools like Git, Jenkins, Appium.
• Experience with test case management systems & JIRA, QTest/QMetry systems.
• Ability to estimate effort and size of features.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; comfortable with cross-functional collaboration.

Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles).