Senior Quality Engineer – Testing Tools & Automation

Sony Interactive Entertainment; West of England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking an experienced Software Test professional to design and implement tests for PlayStation tooling. You will work with cross-functional teams to build robust test strategies, automate regressions, and investigate issues while improving overall quality.

You’ll contribute to CI pipelines, mentor teammates, and help shape the testing approach across the organisation in a collaborative, multicultural environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience developing tests for software applications.
• Experience of automating tests.
• A good understanding of software testing techniques.
• Understanding of C++.
• Experience in triaging bugs and creating reproducible tests.
• Experience with software build tools, issue tracking and source control systems.
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools, LLMs, or agentic technologies to improve engineering productivity, with an understanding of how to review, validate, and apply generated output safely.

Responsibilities

• Developing tests for new applications, new features and regressions.
• Developing test strategies with application teams.
• Automating tests as part of our continuous integration systems.
• Investigating issues and creating reproducible test cases.
• Conducting manual, exploratory testing.
• Reporting test results clearly (including performance and coverage).
• Developing tooling to help reduce test time and ease test execution.
• Make suggestions and recommendations for improvements to help shape the finished product.
• Collaborate with global, cross-functional teams in a multicultural environment to develop organisation-wide test strategies and infrastructure.
• Mentoring peers, sharing best practices, and influencing quality engineering approaches.

Skills

Test automation

Software testing

C++

Bug triage

Build tools

Issue tracking

Source control

AI-assisted coding tools

Tools

Windows

Visual Studio

Selenium/Appium

PowerShell

Python

Linux

MacOS

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking an experienced Software Test professional to design and implement tests for PlayStation tooling. You will work with cross-functional teams to build robust test strategies, automate regressions, and investigate issues while improving overall quality.

You’ll contribute to CI pipelines, mentor teammates, and help shape the testing approach across the organisation in a collaborative, multicultural environment.