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 who can help ensure we're able to continue to grow our capabilities without negative impact to our passionate user base.

This is a fast-paced, high-visibility engineering position with SIE’s Gaming Life engineering organization helping to develop an end-to-end automation system contributing to our brand new and exciting projects.

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

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, confirmed understanding of a modern programming language is crucial.
• 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.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years or equivalent experience in automation.
• 2+ years or equivalent experience in servers and tools testing.
• Experience leading, building, and crafting test strategies for Apps and consumer-facing products.
• Shown experience writing automated tests in Python, Java Script or any other Programming Language.
• Practical experience using development and deployment tools: Git, Jenkins, Docker
• Understanding of automation test framework like pytest. Experience with Selenium or Appium.
• Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Experience with multi-functional/cross-site collaboration
• Ability to estimate effort and size of features, identify dependencies and be able to bring them on at the early stage of planning.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and TDD processes
• Experience using project and test case management tools.
• Experience with at least one modern web application framework, p