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PlayStation
Senior Software Quality Engineer (Contractor)
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Jira
2 months ago
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Important information
Contract type:
Freelance / Contract
Location:
San Mateo, CA, USA
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
3 September 2026
What they need
- 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 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
- 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
- Familiar with tools like JIRA, TestRail, or qTest, and open to picking up new tooling as needs change
- 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
- Able to explain problems, risks, and trade-offs clearly to engineers, product partners, and leadership
- Familiarity with PlayStation® products
- Organized and detail-minded, with experience mentoring others in Agile development environments
- Experience testing consumer electronics, especially peripherals or embedded firmware
- 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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