Lead QA Engineer - PlayStation Peripherals & Firmware

Sony Interactive Entertainment; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 121,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo is hiring a Senior Software Quality Engineer to shape how quality is built into PlayStation peripherals and firmware, not just verified at the end. You will lead test strategy for complex features, collaborate with developers and product teams, and guide QA across the project to improve performance, stability, and the player experience!

This role blends hands-on testing with technical leadership.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in software quality engineering or a related testing role.
• Comfortable owning test strategy and planning for complex features, including scope, release criteria, and test boundaries
• Experienced across functional, exploratory, regression, and integration testing, with good judgment about which approach fits a situation, plus some experience testing APIs
• Familiar with tools like JIRA, TestRail, or qTest, and open to picking up new tooling as needs change
• Able to explain problems, risks, and trade-offs clearly to engineers, product partners, and leadership
• Organized and detail-minded, with experience mentoring others in Agile development environments

Responsibilities

• We test early, often, and across teams to help catch issues before they reach customers.
• Own test strategy and test plans for major features, including end-to-end flows, and turn unclear requirements into concrete coverage
• Lead test plan walkthroughs with developers, product managers, and other partners ahead of key release milestones
• Run and guide functional, regression, exploratory, and integration testing, and close coverage gaps across the product area
• Investigate complex failures using logs, traces, and system metrics, and lead triage and defect prioritization
• Mentor junior and mid-level QEs on test design, tooling, problem-solving, and quality practices
• Improve QE processes, tooling, and documentation, and share what you learn with nearby teams

Skills

Test strategy ownership

Functional testing

Exploratory testing

Regression testing

API testing

Mentoring others

Agile

Tools

JIRA

TestRail

qTest

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo is hiring a Senior Software Quality Engineer to shape how quality is built into PlayStation peripherals and firmware, not just verified at the end. You will lead test strategy for complex features, collaborate with developers and product teams, and guide QA across the project to improve performance, stability, and the player experience!

This role blends hands-on testing with technical leadership.