Software Development Engineer in Test (12 months Contract)

Sony Interactive Entertainment as a Software Development Engineer in Test. In this 12-month contract role, you will support quality engineering for customer-facing applications, ensuring high reliability, usability, and overall player experience.

Responsibilities

• You will create effective testing strategies, build test plans, write test cases, and execute them.
• Additionally, you will implement and maintain test automation scripts, develop and improve the test automation framework, and report and track defects.
• 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.
• Experience with version control solutions (both centralized and distributed)
• You communicate clearly and professionally with partners at all levels, including technical teams, product stakeholders, and project leads

Requirements

• You should have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, 3+ years of experience in UI automation, and experience with Selenium or Appium.
• 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
• Experience with Selenium or Appium
• Experience in one or more Programming/Scripting Languages, preferably Python

Validated experience in Software testing life cycle

• You have a strong drive and passion for quality and can help inspire, motivate, and influence team members toward better engineering outcomes
• You are comfortable asking questions, identifying risks early, and helping the team make informed quality and release decisions
• 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
• Experience with at least one modern web application framework such as Angular/Ember.js/React
• Significant experience with Python
• Experience with Node.js, React Native
• Experience developing or writing test code for a game console

Preferred

• Experience maintaining CI systems (Jenkins preferred)
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience developing or testing a non-PC device (phone/game console/set-top box, etc.)