Senior Software Quality Engineer

PlayStation Global • San Mateo, CA

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About The Position

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is seeking a motivated and creative Senior Software Quality Engineer (SQE) to join their Quality Engineering organization. This role will focus on the mobile application ecosystem, specifically iOS, and will involve defining test strategies, driving end-to-end quality, and leveraging automation to improve testing processes. The Senior SQE will collaborate closely with engineering teams to ensure the quality, performance, and stability of mobile applications used by millions of users, directly impacting the user experience. While not a day-to-day software development role, strong automation experience is crucial for working with frameworks, reviewing automated tests, and partnering with SDETs to enhance automation coverage and CI/CD validation.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in UI, API, and end-to-end testing, with significant hands-on experience testing iOS mobile applications.
• Strong experience defining test strategies, creating test plans, and executing comprehensive manual and automated testing.
• Experience working with mobile automation frameworks such as Appium and familiarity with Python-based automation.
• Understanding of mobile application release lifecycle, including build pipelines, TestFlight, versioning, and release validation.
• Experience testing on iOS simulators, physical devices, and cloud testing platforms such as Sauce Labs or BrowserStack.
• Familiarity with automation frameworks and tools such as pytest, WebdriverIO, or Playwright, with the ability to review, troubleshoot, and work alongside automation engineers.
• Basic programming or scripting experience (Python preferred; Java, JavaScript, or C# is a plus) sufficient to understand automation frameworks, troubleshoot failures, and contribute where needed.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills with a high sense of ownership.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with experience working across globally distributed teams.
• Ability to learn quickly and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience with PlayStation SDK development.
• Experience with GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with PlayStation products and games.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end mobile application testing efforts, including defining test strategies, writing test plans, identifying test scenarios, and ensuring comprehensive coverage across new and existing features.
• Review product requirements, UX flows, high-level system designs, and architecture diagrams to design effective testing strategies for iOS applications.
• Execute manual and automated tests across functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end scenarios using iOS simulators, physical devices, and cloud testing platforms such as Sauce Labs or BrowserStack.
• Partner with SDETs and development teams to identify automation opportunities and ensure appropriate automation coverage across the mobile application stack.
• Support triaging application issues by analyzing logs, identifying root causes, validating fixes, and working closely with development teams.
• File clear, actionable defects supported by logs, reproduction steps, and failure data, and drive them through resolution.
• Validate mobile interactions with backend services through API testing and integration testing, including working with mocked dependencies where appropriate.
• Drive quality improvements by identifying testing gaps, recommending tooling or process enhancements, and improving overall test effectiveness.
• Review and validate automated test coverage and support integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
• Collaborate in an agile, distributed environment with engineering, product, architecture, QA, and operations teams.

Benefits

• Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.
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• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed