Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Contractor)

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Sr Software Development Engineer in Test (Contractor)

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

Do you have a passion for development and automation? Do you have a passion for delivering the best experiences to users? At PlayStation, we are looking for self-motivated and highly proactive engineers to join us in building innovative and robust test automation, tooling, and CI/CD for our application team. We love building applications and systems that millions of people use. We strive to be at the forefront of development technologies and a company that values diversity.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Review product requirements and design documents to understand how the feature works and build effective testing strategies.

• Drive the QA Plan for UI testing; 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.

• Plan and implement automated tests for applications on and off the PlayStation console.

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

• Maintain and enhance existing Python based automation framework

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

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

• Report, track and verify defects

• Understanding of layered architecture of a software and how to effectively test such a system.

• Passionate about Quality and strives to improve process, proposes standard methodologies and drives their usage across multiple teams.

• Mentor other team members to level-up the skills and quality of the team, and provide advice to teams within engineering.

• Promote use of automation across teams to improve speed of testing.

• Monitor and maintain various Jenkins jobs and report statuses.

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

• Interact and work on a day-to-day basis with various stakeholders outside of QE organization.

• Work in a fast paced software release environment.

Qualifications:

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

• At least 3 years or equivalent experience in advanced UI automation for web applications.

• Previous experience writing automated tests in Python and Pytest.

• Experience developing or testing on a non-console setup (mobile, windows, web, etc.)

• Experience with Selenium or Appium.

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

• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Able to work both independently and collaboratively as needed.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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