Sr Software QA Engineer - Contractor

Sr Software QA Engineer (Contractor)

San Mateo, CA

Do you have a passion for delivering the best experiences to users? We are looking for self‑motivated, quick‑starter and highly proactive individuals to join our Client QA team, who is responsible for ensuring delivery of features on Play Station's Mobile App!

• Review product requirements and design documents to understand how the feature works on the Play Station mobile app and build effective testing strategies.

• Drive the QA Plan for UI testing; build concrete test plans, write test cases, and implement them to ensure the quality of features. Identify testing needs for l10n, a11y, and performance testing.

• Write and maintain automated test scripts, review code for quality and testability, and utilize metrics to drive continuous improvement in product reliability.

• Be responsible for release activities and be involved in post‑release QA activities.

• Maintain test cases and defect backlog; report, track, and verify defects.

• Provide status reports to QA manager and other partners.

• Understand layered architecture of a software and how to optimally test such a system.

• Passionate about quality and strive to improve processes, propose standard methodologies and drive their usage across multiple teams.

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

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

• 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 team members outside of the QE organization.

• Minimum BS degree in CS or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience in building and executing test plans and test cases.

• Experience testing mobile applications (iOS and Android).

• Extensive background in QA methodologies and experience developing and implementing comprehensive test suites.

• Ability to estimate effort and size of features.

• Experience with test case management systems & JIRA database systems.

• Experience with agile development methodologies and TDD processes.

• Understanding of automation test framework like pytest.

• Practical experience using development and deployment tools like Git, Jenkins, Docker.

• Experience with Selenium or Appium.

• Strong technical, analytical and problem‑solving skills.

• Able to work independently and as part of a team.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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

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, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.