Senior Quality Engineer: Test Strategy & Leadership

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

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to shape quality for PlayStation peripherals and firmware. You will own test strategy for complex features, translate unclear requirements into concrete coverage, and collaborate with developers, product teams, and QA peers to improve quality early.

This role blends hands-on testing with technical leadership, mentoring junior QEs, guiding test plans, and driving efficient testing across end-to-end

Qualifications

• Several years of software quality engineering experience.
• Ability to own test strategy for complex features.
• Experience with functional, exploratory, regression, and integration testing.
• 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

• Own test strategy and plans for major features and 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

End-to-end testing

Regression testing

API testing

Mentoring

Agile

Communication

Tools

JIRA

TestRail

qTest

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Senior Software Quality Engineer to shape quality for PlayStation peripherals and firmware. You will own test strategy for complex features, translate unclear requirements into concrete coverage, and collaborate with developers, product teams, and QA peers to improve quality early.

This role blends hands-on testing with technical leadership, mentoring junior QEs, guiding test plans, and driving efficient testing across end-to-end