Senior Software Quality Engineer (Contract)
HybridSan Mateo, California, United States
Job Summary
Execute end-to-end testing for iOS mobile applications, including functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end validation across simulators, physical devices, and cloud platforms like Sauce Labs or BrowserStack. Review product requirements and technical designs to develop comprehensive test plans, then collaborate with developers and SDETs to increase automation coverage using frameworks such as Appium and Python. Investigate automation failures, analyze logs, and validate bug fixes while creating actionable defect reports with reproduction steps and evidence. Support CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins and GitHub Actions to ensure release quality. This contract role supports the Quality Engineering organization within Sony Interactive Entertainment's PlayStation brand, ensuring stability for millions of users worldwide.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering
- strong hands-on experience testing iOS mobile applications
- Experience creating test plans
- identifying test scenarios
- executing comprehensive manual and automated testing
- Hands-on experience with mobile automation frameworks such as Appium
- familiarity with Python-based automation
- Understanding of the iOS application release lifecycle
- including TestFlight
- build pipelines
- versioning
- and release validation
- Experience testing on iOS simulators
- physical devices
- and cloud testing platforms such as Sauce Labs or BrowserStack
- Familiarity with automation frameworks such as Pytest, WebdriverIO, or Playwright
- ability to review automated tests
- troubleshoot failures
- and collaborate with automation engineers
- Basic programming or scripting experience
- Python preferred
- Java, JavaScript, or C# is a plus
- sufficient to understand automation frameworks
- troubleshoot failures
- and contribute where appropriate
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- experience working across distributed teams
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies
- adapt in a fast-paced development environment
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
Desired Qualifications
- Experience testing PlayStation or gaming-related applications
- Familiarity with PlayStation SDKs
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Experience testing applications that interact with cloud services or REST APIs
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