Senior Software Quality Engineer Contractor

Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?

Sony 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.

Job Description

Senior Software Quality Engineer

Summary

Do you want to shape how quality is built into PlayStation® peripherals and firmware, not just verify it at the end? Join the team crafting thoughtful test strategies for PlayStation® Link™ devices. Your work will directly support product performance, stability, and the overall player experience!

We're growing the Quality Engineering team and looking for a senior engineer who enjoys owning test strategy for complex features, bringing clarity to unclear requirements, and helping the engineers around them grow.

This role combines hands-on testing with technical leadership. You'll lead planning and testing for major features, partner with developers and product teams to build in quality early, and mentor other QEs as they develop.

We value curiosity, continuous learning, and a thoughtful approach to quality at every stage.

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

Qualifications

We'll succeed by working together to learn from bugs and build test coverage with intention.

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

Nice to Have

If you bring any of these, we'd love to hear about them!

Experience testing consumer electronics, especially peripherals or embedded firmware

Familiarity with PlayStation® products

Experience testing on Microsoft Windows platforms

Passion for gaming

Experience with telemetry tools, validating event tracking, or performance testing

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and test automation frameworks

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