Senior Software Development Engineer In Test

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test

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.

Have a passion for automation? Desire to work at a company where millions of customers have real excitement for the products you help implement? At PlayStation, we are looking for engineers to join a global initiative in robust test automation, accessibility, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment systems.

We are searching for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) who can help ensure we're able to continue to grow our capabilities without negatively impacting our enthusiastic user base.

In this role you will collaborate very closely with other QE and Devs on the team to ensure high-quality for our applications and content delivery across multiple platforms. You will be responsible for contributing to the automation and overall quality of critical applications used by our game developing partners, as well as actively engaging with the team in identifying defects of new features and helping to identify their root cause while bringing them to resolution. The ideal candidate will be an emerging leader and have a solid foundation in automation development and software testing principles, strong experience in end-to-end testing enterprise applications with complex business rules, and be passionate about delivering high-quality software applications.

Responsibilities

Design test frameworks and guide teams in building automation infrastructure

Lead in the development and implementation of standard methodologies for automation, continuous build and deploy, automated testing, multi-functional end-to-end testing, including device testing, and performance testing

Work with globally distributed teams to engage early and provide continuous delivery of high quality software products that delight Sony customers

Collaborate with Product Owners and Product Managers to understand feature requirements, identify testing requirements and estimates, and develop new features in QE testing architecture

Audit and maintain various Jenkins Jobs and report statuses

Identify and implement opportunities to improve the QE process

Expand testing and automation across teams to promote ownership of quality

Maintain and improve existing JavaScript based automation framework

Assist with production deployment support and post release

Report and verify defects

This Role Will Require Knowledge Of

Testing – studied and practiced a variety of test techniques and methodologies, and are familiar with prominent voices in the online testing community

Test automation – passion for robust, maintainable code and knowledge of test automation to a level where the pros and cons of various automation approaches can be discussed.

Agile software development – understand the common methodologies and can articulate how a strong tester can best support their team in that context

Requirements

6+ years or equivalent experience in automated test case development for full stack applications including test framework development

Some experience leading a team through testing of complex features

Experience architecting testing frameworks from scratch

Automation development using JavaScript and Selenium WebDriver or Appium and PyTest

Moderate knowledge of Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS

Average knowledge of Git

Good understanding of modern software engineering including web technologies, continuous integration, and automation development

Curious about learning new software testing methodology and technologies

Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills

Ambitious with an ability to take initiative

Strong communication and documentation skills

End-to-end testing experience