Software Development Engineer in Test II

Open in San Mateo and San Diego

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 with Selenium or Appium
• Experience in one or more Programming/Scripting Languages, preferably Python.
• You have a strong drive and passion for quality and can help inspire, motivate, and influence team members toward better engineering outcomes.
• You communicate clearly and professionally with partners at all levels, including technical teams, product stakeholders, and project leads.
• You are effective at working with geographically distributed and culturally diverse teams.
• You are curious, proactive, and willing to go beyond immediate assignments to deeply understand the systems you support.
• You are comfortable asking questions, identifying risks early, and helping the team make informed quality and release decisions.
• Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.
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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience maintaining CI systems (Jenkins preferred)
• 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
• About You
• You have a strong drive and passion for quality and can help inspire, motivate, and influence team members toward better engineering outcomes.
• You communicate clearly and professionally with partners at all levels, including technical teams, product stakeholders, and project leads.
• You are effective at working with geographically distributed and culturally diverse teams.
• You are curious, proactive, and willing to go beyond immediate assignments to deeply understand the systems you support.
• You are comfortable asking questions, identifying risks early, and helping the team make informed quality and release decisions.
• Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.
• Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.

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