Job Description

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 Group Corporation.

Do you have a passion for development and automation as well as driven vision for delivering the best experiences to users? Do you want to work at a company where customers have real passion and excitement for the products you help build? At PlayStation, we are looking for engineers to join a global initiative in building innovative test automation and CI/CD systems. We are looking for self-motivated, quick-starter and highly proactive individuals to join our Client QA team, who would be responsible for ensuring delivery of features on PlayStation platform.

At PlayStation, we are passionate about innovation, teamwork and technology. We love building the systems that millions of people use and are our own first customers. We strive to be at the forefront of development technologies and are a diverse company with teams on four continents.

Primary Responsibilities

• Review product requirements and design documents to understand how the feature works on the PlayStation applications and create effective testing strategies.

• Plan and complete QA related activities for UI testing; build and execute test plan and test cases to ensure the quality of new features.

• Build and enhance test automation for applications, automate test cases, own their maintenance, and ensure optimized and reliable test execution, including upkeep of PS5 test devices.

• Responsible for setting up and maintaining test pipelines, managing Jenkins jobs, and reporting execution status

• Drive quality improvements by proposing best practices and ensuring their adoption within the team

• Work with Developers, Product Owners to ensure that all features and bug fixes come with automated test coverage

• Assist with production deployment support and post release activities

• Report, track and verify defects

• Use AI/ML-powered tools and code generation frameworks (e.g., Copilot, LLM-based test generators) to assist in creating, maintaining, and optimizing test cases and automation scripts, improving test coverage, reducing manual effort, and accelerating execution within CI/CD pipelines

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• Experience in building and executing test plans and test cases

• Experience writing automated tests in Python, Java Script or any other Programming Language

• Understanding of automation test framework like pytest

• Experience in setting or configuring up test pipelines as part of Continuous Integration(CI), Jenkins preferred

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

• Experience with test case management systems & JIRA, QTest/QMetry systems

• Ability to estimate effort and size of features

• Experience with Agile methodologies

• Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills

• Able to work independently and as part of a team

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. comfortable with cross functional collaboration

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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. $140,500—$210,700 USD

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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, 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.

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