{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"b5437edb7dc6192f87d95676","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/b5437edb7dc6192f87d95676","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/b5437edb7dc6192f87d95676","title":"Software Development Engineer in Test - Contractor","description":"Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?\n\nSony Interactive Entertainment isn't just the Best Place to Play — it's also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we're part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.\n\nWe are looking for a highly motivated and proactive Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) contractor to join our Quality Engineering team. In this role, you will contribute to the quality of new and existing features across multiple platforms and devices through a combination of hands-on testing, test automation, and quality engineering practices.\n\nThe ideal candidate has a strong technical foundation, experience developing and maintaining automated tests and test frameworks, and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, product, and QE teams in a fast-paced development environment.\n\nAt PlayStation, we are passionate about collaboration and technology. We build systems and experiences used by millions of players around the world and continuously strive to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of our products and development processes.\n\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nPlan and execute Quality Engineering activities for new and existing features, including developing test strategies, test plans, test cases and test scenarios.\nReview product requirements, technical specifications, and design documents to understand feature functionality, identify potential quality risks, and develop effective testing strategies.\nPerform functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing across supported platforms and devices.\nDesign, develop, maintain and enhance test automation frameworks and automated test suites.\nDevelop automated UI and API tests to improve test coverage, reliability, and overall testing efficiency.\nAnalyze automated test results, investigate failures, identify root causes, and work with engineering teams to resolve issues.\nIdentify, document, track, and verify defects throughout the development lifecycle.\nMonitor automated test executions and CI/CD jobs, investigate failures, and communicate quality status, risks, and blockers to key stakeholders.\nCollaborate with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams on test strategy, test planning, execution and release readiness.\nIdentify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation, tooling and overall QE processes.\nRequirements:\nBS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent\n3-5 years or equivalent experience in UI automation for web applications\nSolid experience writing automated tests in Python, JavaScript, C ++ or any other Programming Language\nExperience with Selenium or Appium or UI Automation technologies\nKnowledge and experience testing APIs (RESTful), Libraries, SDK/Application Frameworks, Native Applications\nExperience with at least one modern web application framework\nStrong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills\nAble to work efficiently as part of a team and independently\nStrong initiative and outstanding verbal and written communication skills\nBonus Qualifications:\nExperience developing or writing test code/scripting for a game console\nExperience developing an application (game application is extra bonus)\nPractical experience using development and deployment tools: Git, Jenkins, Docker\nExperience using source control (esp. Git) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins or Circle CI)\n\nPlease note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.\n\nPlease refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.\n\nEqual Opportunity Statement:\n\nSony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.\n\nWe strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.\n\nSony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.","company":"Sony Interactive Entertainment","rawCompany":"sony interactive entertainment","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-12T09:49:00.936Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1253.00","title":"Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers","slug":"software-quality-assurance-analysts-and-testers"},{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"17-2112.02","title":"Validation Engineers","slug":"validation-engineers"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Development Engineer in Test - Contractor","description":"Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?\n\nSony Interactive Entertainment isn't just the Best Place to Play — it's also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we're part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.\n\nWe are looking for a highly motivated and proactive Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) contractor to join our Quality Engineering team. 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We build systems and experiences used by millions of players around the world and continuously strive to improve the quality, reliability, and efficiency of our products and development processes.\n\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nPlan and execute Quality Engineering activities for new and existing features, including developing test strategies, test plans, test cases and test scenarios.\nReview product requirements, technical specifications, and design documents to understand feature functionality, identify potential quality risks, and develop effective testing strategies.\nPerform functional, integration, regression and end-to-end testing across supported platforms and devices.\nDesign, develop, maintain and enhance test automation frameworks and automated test suites.\nDevelop automated UI and API tests to improve test coverage, reliability, and overall testing efficiency.\nAnalyze automated test results, investigate failures, identify root causes, and work with engineering teams to resolve issues.\nIdentify, document, track, and verify defects throughout the development lifecycle.\nMonitor automated test executions and CI/CD jobs, investigate failures, and communicate quality status, risks, and blockers to key stakeholders.\nCollaborate with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams on test strategy, test planning, execution and release readiness.\nIdentify opportunities to improve test coverage, automation, tooling and overall QE processes.\nRequirements:\nBS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent\n3-5 years or equivalent experience in UI automation for web applications\nSolid experience writing automated tests in Python, JavaScript, C ++ or any other Programming Language\nExperience with Selenium or Appium or UI Automation technologies\nKnowledge and experience testing APIs (RESTful), Libraries, SDK/Application Frameworks, Native Applications\nExperience with at least one modern web application framework\nStrong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills\nAble to work efficiently as part of a team and independently\nStrong initiative and outstanding verbal and written communication skills\nBonus Qualifications:\nExperience developing or writing test code/scripting for a game console\nExperience developing an application (game application is extra bonus)\nPractical experience using development and deployment tools: Git, Jenkins, Docker\nExperience using source control (esp. 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All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.\n\nWe strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.\n\nSony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.","datePosted":"2026-09-12T09:49:00.936Z","dateModified":"2026-09-12T09:49:00.936Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Sony Interactive Entertainment","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Millbrae","addressRegion":"CA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"b5437edb7dc6192f87d95676"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/b5437edb7dc6192f87d95676"}}