Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Sr. SDET)

Why PlayStation?

PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.

PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

At PlayStation, we're passionate about both partnership and technology. We care about building performant products and exciting tools, solving practical problems in delightful ways. We love building the systems that millions of people use, and we're always our own first customers and critics. We strive to be at the forefront of development technologies and celebrate our diversity with engineering teams located on four continents from all walks of life. We build our teams to be a place where every voice is heard, all input is valued, and our members have the creative freedom to make their ideas real. 

PlayStation is looking for a Sr. SDET to join a global initiative in building innovative and robust test automation, tooling, and CI/CD systems in a sophisticated environment. In this role, you can expect to engage with engineers, products owners, and designers to drive an extremely high quality bar for products which are used by over 100 million people. You'll craft new automation systems, improve existing ones, drive technical excellence, and develop new tools to tackle test problems. 

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement libraries and tooling for automation frameworks

• Work closely with console developers to ensure that all features and bug fixes come with automated test coverage.

• Engage in cross-team test initiatives for new and evolving features

• Drive high standards of quality for both engineering decisions and customer-facing features

• Provide technical leadership within and across scrum teams

• Create design and process artifacts to define scope and provide clarity for technical product implementations

• Manage short and long term test and automation initiatives

• Come up with innovative solutions to organizational problems

• Drive a customer-focused approach to the product

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge

• 5 years of experience in UI and/or API automation

• Previous experience working with Python3

• Experience with Selenium or Appium, or other front-end automation framework

• Experience with at least one modern web application framework, preferably React

• Hands-on experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman or similar).

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and test execution in Jenkins or similar environments.

• Experience in working with databases for backend validation

• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills

• Able to work both independently and collaboratively as needed

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Test or development experience on a non-PC device (phone/game console/set-top box, etc.)

• Experience with React Native

• Experience developing or writing test code for a game console