Software Development Engineer in Test (12 months Contract)

Join 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. 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. 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.

• 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)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge
• Experience maintaining CI systems (Jenkins preferred)
• 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 communicate clearly and professionally with partners at all levels, including technical teams, product stakeholders, and project leads
• 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
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Experience developing or testing a non-PC device (phone/game console/set-top box, etc.)
• Significant experience with Python
• Experience with Node.js, React Native
• Experience developing or writing test code for a game console