PC Test Specialist – 12+ Months

Sony Playstation; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in entertainment is seeking a QA Operations professional for a temporary role in Liverpool. Your main responsibilities will include providing expertise in PC gaming and testing strategies, developing training for staff, and collaborating on testing processes. Ideal candidates will have a minimum of one year’s QA experience and a strong understanding of PC hardware. This role offers 25 days of holiday and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

25 days holiday per year

Flexitime working

Free car parking facilities

On Site Gym

Subsidised Café

On site bar

Access to cycle garage and showers

Qualifications

• Minimum 1 year's experience in QA Operations.
• PC Games testing experience across various platforms.
• PC building experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise on PC OS interaction.
• Train test staff on best practices for PC testing.
• Communicate strategy and product impacts to leadership.

Skills

QA Operations experience

PC Games testing

Understanding of PC gaming hardware

Excellent communication skills

Job description

Overview

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 PlayStation5, PlayStation4, PlayStationVR, PlayStationPlus, 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.

Please note: This is an onsite role in our Liverpool office, with flexibility.

Role overview:

This position is for a temporary engagement through our staffing partner DZConneX (Yoh Services). The anticipated duration of this engagement will vary and will be a minimum of 12 months.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide subject matter expertise and educate staff on PC operating system interaction, PC client functionality, and performance testing applied to multiplatform title development.
• Continued learning and development of subject matter expertise; provide training and guidance to test staff regarding PC OS and Hardware testing best practices.
• Directly interacting with Studios and Business Leadership to communicate strategy, risk, and product impacts.
• Gather studio requirements and expectations to help inform testing processes, tools and procedures.
• Define service strategies to support the testing of PC software.
• Training and development of Functional Test staff to ensure consistent service understanding and quality across products.
• Researching and documenting product defects and performance metrics.
• Applying knowledge of intermediate to advanced networking principles and PC, and gaming / functionality elements.
• Collaborating on test efforts and partnering with our Networking, Compatibility, and Performance Lab team.
• Promote new test strategies across project disciplines, including Functional Testing teams, Engineering groups, and other service providers.

What we are looking for

• Minimum 1 year’s experience in QA Operations
• PC Games testing experience, supporting and releasing titles across a range of platforms like Steam, Epic, Origin, GOG, etc
• Understanding of PC gaming hardware and the associated technologies.
• PC building experience.
• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.

Nice to have

• Excellent general awareness of QA and games industry preferred.
• Expert level understanding of PC gaming hardware and the associated technologies.
• Strong experience / understanding of GPU video graphics cards and display resolutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven experience of process improvement/service management

Benefits

• 25 days holiday per year
• Flexitime working (where approved)
• Free car parking facilities
• On Site Gym
• Subsidised Café
• On site bar
• Access to cycle garage and showers

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.

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.