Why PlayStation?
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in entertainment producing The PlayStation family of products and services including PlayStation®5, PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Plus, acclaimed PlayStation software titles from PlayStation Studios, and more.
PlayStation also strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers employees and embraces diversity. We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.
The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Role overview:
We have an exciting opportunity to join Sony Interactive Entertainment, PlayStation. We seek an enthusiastic Software Engineer in Test to work within the Partner Platform which is part of Content and Customer Services Engineering. The Partner Platform applications are utilized worldwide by content producers to interact and supply their content onto the PlayStation platform, including games, movies, music and more.
You will be joining one of our Liverpool based Engineering Teams as a Software Engineer in Test. You will work alongside other teams based in multiple geographic regions and time zones, using a diverse technology stack within a cloud (AWS) environment.
We have an ongoing commitment to nurture and develop your talent. You will have access to comprehensive training materials, including a focused training period when you start with us and following that you will have protected time each month to further your learning.
What you’ll be doing:
- Working in an Agile engineering team testing best in class enterprise applications that are critical to the core of PlayStation’s business.
- Take ownership of and support the applications that your team deliver
- Put Quality first and constantly look for ways to improve it
- Collaborating with developers and product owners:
- Contributing to planning and design.
- Code reviews
- Execute test cases, validate bug fixes, and sprint tickets, report test results, and be an advocate for quality in every phase of the development process.
- Develop and Improve test automation frameworks.
- Knowing and using design patterns where appropriate.
- Setting up the infrastructure to run tests working with our DevOps support.
- Setting up dashboards for reporting test results in real time.
- Teaching others good quality and testing practices.
- Testing non-functional requirements including performance, security, and accessibility.
What we’re looking for:
- Have around 3-5 years professional experience as a Software Engineer in Test
- Automation first mindset
- Be methodical, analytical and have a streak of creativity that you bring to everything you do
- Exhibit our core behaviours:
- Always Learning
- Outcome Focused
- Accountable
- Adaptable and Respectful
- Have professional experience in some of the following or similar tools and technologies:
- Cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure)
- Test Automation Tools (e.g. Selenium, Playwright, WebdriverIO, Jest, Puppeteer, Cucumber, Cypress)
- Test Management Tools (e.g. ALM, qTest)
- Modern JavaScript (e.g. ES6, Typescript, React.js, Node.js)
- Database Technologies (e.g. MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Dynamo)
- Using CI/CD tools like Jenkins or similar while having a good understanding of release pipelines and jobs and familiarity with containerisation platforms like Docker.
- Git, Jira, and Confluence
- Unix/Linux
Benefits:
- Discretionary bonus opportunity
- Hybrid Working (within Flexmodes)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Dental Scheme
- 25 days holiday per year
- On Site Gym
- Subsidised Café
- Free soft drinks
- On site bar
- Access to cycle garage and showers
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Sony 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 or maternity, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
