Sr. Software Quality Engineer - Contract

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Sr. Software Quality Engineer (Contract)

San Mateo CA

Do you have a passion for quality We are looking for self-motivated quick-starter and highly proactive individuals to join our full stack team who will be testing new and existing features on multiple platforms and devices in a software development environment and ensuring quality of automation and test frameworks.

At PlayStation we are passionate about both collaboration and technology. We love building the systems that millions of people use and are our own first customers. We strive to be at the forefront of development technologies and are a diverse company with teams on four continents.

Responsibilities:

• Create maintain and execute test plan test cases to ensure the quality of new features
• Passionate about Quality and strive to improve processes generate new standards and drive their usage within the teams.
• Partner with dev team to ensure test coverage and build test plans that help deliver high quality features
• Review product requirements and technical design documents to understand how the feature works on the PlayStation console and create effective testing strategies
• Collaborate with distributed teams for multi-functional test plan design and execution
• Report track and verify defects

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field or ability to demonstrate equivalent knowledge
• 5 years or equivalent experience in QA methodologies and experience developing and executing comprehensive test suites for system software.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with test case management systems & JIRA database systems
• Experience with automation using any programming language: Java Python etc
• Experience using source control (esp. Git) and CI/CD tools (Jenkins or Circle CI)
• Strong technical analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with at least one modern web application framework preferably React
• Experience developing or testing a non-PC device (phone/game console/set-top box etc.)
• Knowledge and experience testing APIs and Service Oriented architecture

Profile (Non-Technical)

• Ability to work quickly productively and independently in a fast-paced environment and as part of a team with minimum direction with strong work ethic
• A passion for robust code

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