Staff Software Development Engineer in Test

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.

What You'll Do

• Define forward looking test framework architectures through creation of designs, establishing tradeoffs in cost vs value and gaining buy in from key technical, QE and business stakeholders.
• Review requirements and design documents to understand and build effective testing strategies.
• 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, 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 & senior level engineers in Framework organization to help raise the bar in innovation, efficiency and technical capability.
• Performance - passionate about application performance and care about application load time, perceived performance and user retention

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge
• 8+ years or equivalent experience in automation.
• Experience leading, building, and crafting test strategies for SDK, Apps and consumer-facing products.
• Shown experience writing automated tests in Python or JavaScript. Expertise in C++ or other Programming Language is a plus.
• Practical experience using development and deployment tools: Git, Jenkins, Docker
• Experience with Selenium or Appium or UI Automation technologies
• Knowledge and experience testing APIs, Libraries, SDK / Application Frameworks, Native Applications
• Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to estimate effort and size of features
• Experience with agile development methodologies and TDD processes
• Experience using project and test case management tools.

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