Sr Software Development Engineer in Test - Audio
San Mateo, CA
About the Role:
PlayStation isn’t just the Best Place to Play —it’s also the Best Place to Work. We’ve thrilled gamers since 1994, when we launched the original PlayStation. Today, we’re recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment. The PlayStation brand falls under Sony Interactive Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation.
Are you a motivated and creative individual who enjoys investigating new technologies? If so we have a great career opportunity! We seek a motivated engineer with a background in software testing. Here, you will validate and innovate PlayStation’s groundbreaking hardware and software products. This is an opportunity to utilize your programming skills in C++ and Python while working on the most sophisticated gaming platform available. If this is you, please apply!
Responsibilities:
- Own manual and automated test development for PlayStation SDK.
- Team up with developers to ensure test coverage and build test plans that help deliver high quality features.
- Maintain and improve existing Jenkins CI/CD framework, build CI Pipelines, enable automation runs, and develop visualization tools for test reports.
- Improve coverage by creating automation scripts and test codes.
- Debug, analyze, and report issues through test operation and verify bug fixes.
- Drive test related meetings and create test plans, designs, statuses, reports to be accountable for the test activities and share with project members.
- Develop new tools, methodologies, techniques, and test metrics to improve our processes.
- Mentor junior team members by reviewing test plans, automation scripts, and provide measurable feedback.
Qualifications:
- Solid experience writing manual and automation test codes in C++ and Python.
- A minimum of 4 years’ experience building and executing test plans and test cases, also crafting automation frameworks and test suites for SDKs. (Audio preferred)
- Passionate about quality and strive to improve the test process, propose the innovative methodology and drive their usage within the teams.
- Exposure to version control solutions, such as SVN and GIT.
- Experience configuring and maintaining CI systems. (Jenkins preferred)
- Strong technical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent knowledge.
- Preferred: Testing software of audio systems, audio libraries, or audio signal processing.
- Preferred: Developing test code for a game console.
- Preferred: Experience on both Linux and Windows.
- Preferred: Bug tracking such as Jira or Bugzilla.
- Preferred: Agile software development process.
