Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

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 Corporation.

Do you have strong technical abilities, and excellent communication skills and can be an inspiration to your team to achieve extraordinary results? Have a passion for automation? Want to work at a company where customers have real excitement for the products you help create? At PlayStation, we are seeking engineers to join a global initiative in robust test automation and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment systems.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to join our global teams in building innovative and robust test automation, tooling, and CI/CD systems in a sophisticated environment.

Our office is located in San Francisco's vibrant SOMA district, within walking distance to outstanding restaurants, museums and nightlife

What You'll Do

• Define forward looking automation test plans.
• Review requirements and design documents to understand and build effective testing strategies for PS console and off console applications.
• Build, maintain and improve test frameworks, and help teams set up automation infrastructure
• Build concrete test plans, write solid test cases, and implement them to ensure the quality of features. Identify testing needs for l10n, a11y, and performance testing.
• Work with globally distributed teams to engage early and provide continuous delivery of high quality software products that delight Sony customers
• Report, track and verify defects as well as monitor Automation jobs. Provide status reports to Leadership and other key partners.
• Contribute in the review of QE and Engineering procedures and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Model and teach key behaviors for owning and delivering systems that are fast, horizontally scalable and reliable.
• Passionate about Quality and strives to improve process, advocate for future architectures and designs and drives their usage across multiple teams.
• Assist with production deployment support and post release
• Analyzing low-level runtime performance data captured from a game or application running on PlayStation hardware, and writing succinct, understandable summaries of performance numbers and behavior observed (so team members understand performance trade-offs).
• Researching new tools for building and analyzing PlayStation software.

This Role Will Require Knowledge Of

• Testing - the study and practice a variety of test techniques and methodologies, and are familiar with prominent voices in the online testing community
• Test automation - an interest in test automation to a level where pros and cons of various automation approaches are shown. To support this, solid understanding of a modern programming language is vital.
• Agile software development - understand the common methodologies and can articulate how a strong tester can best support their team in that context
• Coach and mentor junior level quality engineers.
• Performance - passionate about application performance and being able to come up with innovative ways to measures different Performance KPIs.

Tools and Technology used in this position include

• Visual Studio.
• PlayStation software development kits (SDKs).
• Software automation and continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.
• Python tools written using Python 3 features such as type hinting.
• Software repository servers such as Artifactory.
• Containerization technology such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Source control (e.g. Github) for all systems, including Jenkins Groovy scripts (pipeline as code).

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge
• 7+ years or equivalent experience in automation.
• Shown experience writing automated tests in Python, JavaScript, or Expertise in C++
• Practical experience using development and deployment tools: Git, Jenkins, Docker
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