Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

PlayStation; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC in Austin, TX is seeking a Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test to collaborate with QA and Dev teams, ensuring high-quality web applications and a content delivery platform.

You will design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for complex web apps with modular UI and service-oriented architectures, integrating CI/CD via Jenkins and leveraging Java, Spring Boot, and AWS in Docker/Kubernetes environments.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in MIS, CS, or related field or equivalent.
• 2+ years of experience supporting QA and test automation for digital content delivery platforms.
• Experience with automated test frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Java and object-oriented design.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites.
• Collaborate with QA and development teams to ensure high-quality web apps.
• Validate CDN-backed delivery systems and cloud-native services.

Skills

Java

OOP & Generics

Multithreading

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Groovy

Shell scripting

Spring Boot

Maven

AWS SDKs

Docker

Kubernetes

Selenium WebDriver

TestNG

JUnit

Rest-Assured

JSON/XML validation

SQL validation

Datadog

CloudWatch

Elasticsearch

JaCoCo

SonarQube

GitHub workflows

Apache JMeter

Shift-left testing

Education

Master’s degree in MIS, CS, or related field or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Groovy

Shell scripting

Spring Boot

Maven

AWS SDKs

Docker

Kubernetes

Datadog

CloudWatch

Elasticsearch

Selenium WebDriver

TestNG

JUnit

Rest-Assured

DTO-based JSON/XML validation

SQL-based validation

JaCoCo

SonarQube

GitHub

Maven

Apache JMeter

Job description

• Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC seeks a Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test in Austin, TX to collaborate with QA and Devs teams to ensure high-quality for web applications and content delivery platform

• Designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and test suites for complex web applications with modular and micro–front-end user interfaces and service-oriented architectures
• Integrating CI/CD pipelines and automation using Jenkins with Groovy and shell scripting
• Utilizing Java object-oriented programming principles and data structures, including collections, generics, lambdas, and concurrency concepts with multi-threaded test execution to develop and maintain automated tests frameworks using Spring Boot and Maven
• Leveraging AWS SDKs to verify cloud services in Docker and Kubernetes environments, while monitoring via Datadog and CloudWatch
• Testing cloud-native and distributed systems in AWS-based environments supporting event-driven architectures, including SNS and SQS, indexing and search capabilities (Elasticsearch)
• Implementing UI and API automation using Selenium WebDriver, TestNG and JUnit, and Rest-Assured for RESTful service testing, including DTO-based JSON/XML validation and SQL-based database validation
• Utilizing JaCoCo and SonarQube within GitHub-based workflows to support quality-driven releases
• Supporting performance, reliability, and scalability testing using Apache JMeter and applying shift-left testing
• Master’s degree in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent and two (2) years of experience supporting quality assurance and test automation for digital content delivery platforms and applications, including end-to-end content workflows and validation of CDN-backed delivery systems
• Telecommuting and/or working from home may be permissible pursuant to company policies
• And performing in agile ceremonies, peer code reviews, post release validations, defect triage and root cause analysis sessions