Sr Software QA Engineer - Contractor New

• Review product requirements and design documents to understand how the feature works on the PlayStation mobile app and build effective testing strategies.

• Drive the QA Plan for UI testing; build concrete test plans, write test cases, and implement them to ensure the quality of features. Identify testing needs for l10n, a11y, and performance testing.

• Write and maintain automated test scripts, review code for quality and testability, and leverage metrics to drive continuous improvement in product reliability
• Responsible for release activities and be involved in post-release QA activities.
• Ownership of maintaining test cases and the defect backlog. Report, track and verify defects.

• Provide status reports to QA Manager and other partners.

• Understanding of layered architecture of a software and how to optimally test such a system.
• Passionate about Quality and strives to improve process, proposes standard methodologies and drives their usage across multiple teams.
• Mentor other team members to level-up the skills and quality of the team, and provide advice to teams within engineering.
• Promote use of automation across teams to improve speed of testing. Ability to debug failures.
• Monitor and maintain various Jenkins Jobs and report statuses

• Work with globally distributed teams to engage early and provide continuous delivery of high quality software products that delight Sony customers

• Interact and work on a day-to-day basis with various team members outside of QE organization.

Do you have a passion for delivering the best experiences to users? We are looking for self-motivated,

quick-starter and highly proactive individuals to join our Client QA team, who is responsible for ensuring delivery of features on PlayStation’s Mobile App!, * Minimum BS degree in CS or a related field, or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge

• 5+ years of experience in building and executing test plans and test cases
• Experience testing mobile applications(iOS and Android)

• Extensive background in QA methodologies and experience developing and implementing comprehensive test suites

• Ability to estimate effort and size of features
• Experience with test case management systems & JIRA database systems
• Experience with agile development methodologies and TDD processes
• Understanding of automation test framework like pytest
• Practical experience using development and deployment tools like Git, Jenkins, Docker
• Experience with Selenium or Appium
• Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with at least one modern web application framework, preferably React Native

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