Software Development Engineer in Test II

About the role

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.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER in TEST

Contract role, 12 months

Hybrid status

Open in San Mateo and San Diego

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test to join our System Integration Team at Sony Interactive Entertainment. In this role, you will support quality engineering for customer-facing applications in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, helping ensure that new and existing features meet a high bar for reliability, usability, and overall player experience.

Responsibilities

- Review product requirements and design documents to create effective testing strategies

- Build concrete test plans, write test cases and execute them to ensure quality of features

- Implement and maintain test automation scripts to increase test coverage and stability

- Develop, maintain and improve test automation framework

- Report, track and verify defects as well as monitor Automation jobs

- Provide status reports to Leadership and other key partners

- Work with the infrastructure team to maintain common services such as CI test pipelines

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge

- 3+ years experience in UI automation for web or native applications

- Validated experience in Software testing life cycle

- Experience with version control solutions (both centralized and distributed)

- Experience maintaining CI systems (Jenkins preferred)

- Experience with Selenium or Appium

- Experience in one or more Programming/Scripting Languages, preferably Python.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with at least one modern web application framework such as Angular/Ember.js/React

- Experience developing or testing a non-PC device (phone/game console/set-top box, etc.)

- Experience with Agile methodologies

- Significant experience with Python

- Experience with Node.js, React Native

- Experience developing or writing test code for a game console

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