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Senior Software Development Engineer in Test
1 year ago
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.
It is an exciting time to be part of SIE’s PS direct Quality engineering team. SIE is looking for a senior DevOps and automation engineer who will assist in developing and maintaining automation opportunities within our DevOps and quality engineering framework. PS Direct QE team strives on ensuring high quality customer experience using standard methodologies in manual and automation testing.
Key Qualifications
- Write automation scripts for features with key characteristics of stability and maintainability which prevents regressions in the product code.
- Design and build a scalable test framework for functional, integration, regression and performance testing.
- Build API test framework for Microservices. Including Mocking external services and Databases and any dependencies
- Work in an agile and highly collaborative environment with our globally distributed engineering teams, architecture, product, program, and operations.
- Drive testing of complex initiatives across multiple-teams and fields. Evaluate gaps in Testing and drive solutions to write high quality automation to increase Test coverage.
- Work effectively to build automation infrastructure to create CI Pipelines, enable automation runs.
- Knowledge of non-functional testing (e.g. Performance, Resiliency, Failover, Scalability).
- Automation first attitude & Passionate about Quality and strives to improve processes, proposes standard methodologies, and drives their usage within the teams.
- Mentor other team members and provide technical leadership by reviewing test plans, automation scripts, and provide measurable feedback.
- Communicate on testing strategy, technical subjects related to testing frameworks, and collaborates effectively with the globally distributed teams to achieve the business goals.
Required skills
- 7+ years of experience in UI, API and E2E test planning. Test case design and automation for both web and non-web applications.
- 3+ years experience with various testing frameworks including Junit, REST Assured, TestNG, Selenium, Webdriver.io, Playwright
- Experience in coding in any of the languages Java, Javascript, Python or C#
- Experience with build automation and continuous integration tools; Jenkins, Maven, Chef or Puppet.
- Experience with Behavior-Driven Development; Cucumber or Gherkin
- Strong analytical skills and a sense of ownership.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of the software development lifecycle and configuration management; specifically Agile development methodologies. Proficient with GitHub, Jenkins
- Experience with commerce and payment solutions is a plus
- Experience in performance test engineering experience in API, Web based applications using common and industry standard tools K6, JMeter, LoadRunner is a plus
- Experience in analyzing APM tools such as NewRelic, Splunk etc
- Experience integrating Open-Source tools
Required Soft Skills
- Methodical and detailed problem-solving approach
- Complete ownership of end-to-end solutions and leading all aspects of their life cycle
- Execution oriented and results driven!
- Customer and peer relationship focused with strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to partner across teams to inspire change
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced team environment
- Ability to learn new skills/technologies quickly and independently
Experience
- BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
- 7+ years professional experience at scale
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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.
The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.
$140,200 — $210,400 USD
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
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