Software Development Engineer in Test; SDET

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

United States, San Mateo, CA

Why Play Station?

Play Station 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 Play Station family of products and services including Play Station®5, Play Station®4, Play Station®VR, Play Station®Plus, acclaimed Play Station software titles from Play Station Studios, and more.

Play Station 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 Play Station brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly‑owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation.

San Mateo, CA

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 Play Station, 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 Play Station’s Mobile App!

At Play Station, 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.

Review product requirements and design documents to understand how the feature works on the Play Station console and create effective testing strategies.

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

Develop and implement standard methodologies for automation, continuous build and deploy, automated testing and end‑to‑end testing. Maintenance of the PS5 devices used in testing.

Passionate about Quality and strives to improve process, proposes best practices and drives their usage within the team.

Manage various Jenkins Jobs and report statuses

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

Report, track and verify defects

Minimum BS degree in CS or a related field, or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge

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…