Contract SDET: Test Automation & QA for Web & API

Sony Interactive Entertainment; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) Matching

Paid time off

Employee discounts

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) contractor in the San Mateo area to strengthen our Quality Engineering efforts across PlayStation platforms.

You will plan and execute quality activities, build automated tests and frameworks, and collaborate with engineering, product, and QE teams to ensure robust release readiness in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years or equivalent experience in UI automation for web applications.
• Experience with Selenium or Appium or UI Automation technologies.
• Knowledge and experience testing APIs (RESTful).
• Experience with at least one modern web application framework.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute Quality Engineering activities for new and existing features, including developing test strategies, test plans, test cases and test scenarios.
• Review product requirements, technical specifications, and design documents to understand feature functionality, identify potential quality risks, and develop effective testing strategies.
• Perform functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing across supported platforms and devices.
• Design, develop, maintain and enhance test automation frameworks and automated test suites.
• Develop automated UI and API tests to improve test coverage, reliability, and overall testing efficiency.
• Analyze automated test results, investigate failures, identify root causes, and work with engineering teams to resolve issues.
• Identify, document, track, and verify defects throughout the development lifecycle.
• Monitor automated test executions and CI/CD jobs, investigate failures, and communicate quality status, risks, and blockers to key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams on test strategy, test planning, execution and release readiness.
• Identify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation, tooling and overall QE processes

Skills

UI automation

Selenium

Appium

REST APIs

Web applications

Education

BS or MS in Engineering/CS

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Docker

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) contractor in the San Mateo area to strengthen our Quality Engineering efforts across PlayStation platforms.

You will plan and execute quality activities, build automated tests and frameworks, and collaborate with engineering, product, and QE teams to ensure robust release readiness in a fast-paced environment.