Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?</strong></p> <p>Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are looking for a Senior Engineer to help strengthen the quality engineering foundation for our SDK. This role focuses on building robust automation, scalable CI/CD systems, effective test strategies, and practical tooling that improves confidence in SDK delivery across multiple platforms.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You will work across several SDK teams to understand quality risks, improve workflows, and turn broad or ambiguous problems into useful engineering outcomes. This is a senior engineering role, so we are looking for someone with strong technical judgement, ownership, and the ability to make progress in complex environments. You do not need to have worked with every tool or domain listed below, but you should have strong fundamentals, be comfortable learning unfamiliar technical areas, and be able to apply that learning to real engineering problems.&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you’ll be doing</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Building and improving CI/CD pipelines that support SDK build, test, and release workflows.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Developing Python-based automation and tooling for test orchestration, system validation, diagnostics, and reporting.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Creating, maintaining, and improving automated tests across unit, integration, system, and end-to-end levels.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Investigating issues across build, test, deployment, and execution environments, and improving the reliability of the workflows around them.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Supporting Linux and Windows development environments, including cross-platform scripting, automation, debugging, and build/test workflows.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Applying test frameworks, quality metrics, and reporting approaches to improve quality visibility and support practical test strategy.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Working with SDK teams to clarify quality risks, align on shared initiatives, and turn broad goals into actionable engineering work.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Identifying bottlenecks, fragile processes, gaps in automation, or weaknesses in test coverage, then driving pragmatic improvements with the teams involved.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Building domain knowledge across SDK areas through planned rotations or focused assignments, contributing useful improvements in new technical contexts.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Balancing immediate delivery needs with longer-term improvements to SDK quality engineering practices, CI/CD reliability, and test effectiveness.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coordinating with teams across London, Bristol, and Dublin, including occasional planned travel where useful.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mentoring peers, sharing best practices, and helping influence quality engineering approaches across teams.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What we are looking for</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Strong practical Python skills for engineering automation, tooling, diagnostics, or test orchestration.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience building, maintaining, or improving CI/CD, build, test, release, or deployment automation, using tools such as Jenkins/Groovy or equivalent systems.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience developing, maintaining, or improving automated tests or test infrastructure, ideally across more than one level of testing.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability to diagnose and resolve issues across complex build, test, CI, deployment, or execution environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Comfortable working across Linux and Windows development environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Familiarity with test frameworks such as pytest, GTest, or similar, and an understanding of quality metrics, test reporting, or practical test strategy.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability to work with ambiguity: asking good questions, identifying risks, breaking broad problems into practical steps, and making sound engineering decisions when not every detail is defined upfront.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Pragmatic engineering judgement, including knowing when to build a robust long-term solution and when to deliver a focused improvement that unblocks progress.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clear communication and collaborative problem-solving, especially when working across distributed teams, resolving unclear ownership, and advocating for quality engineering concerns.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A willingness to take responsibility for quality engineering improvements, including proposing practical options, implementing changes, and following up with the teams involved.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Useful additional experience</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience or awareness in one or more of the following areas would be useful, but we do not expect expertise in all of them:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Languages such as C, C++, C#, or Rust.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build systems such as CMake or similar.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">.NET development or testing workflows.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Container, Kubernetes, or VM-based environments.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Desktop application testing.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Graphics APIs or graphics-adjacent testing.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">AI/ML, MLOps, or data-driven quality workflows.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Large-scale test infrastructure, reporting, or quality analytics.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About your background</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We know strong engineers come from many different career paths. You do not need to match every item in this advert to be considered. The most important experience for this role is practical engineering work in automation, CI/CD, test infrastructure, quality-focused tooling, or complex technical debugging.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are looking for someone who can operate at a senior level, work well with others, and help raise the quality engineering bar across SDK teams. If that sounds like work you have done, or a natural next step from your experience, we encourage you to apply.</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p class="p1">Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks.</p> <p class="p1">Please refer to our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.playstation.com/legal/careers-privacy-notice/" target="_blank">Candidate Privacy Notice</a>&nbsp;for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.</p> <p><strong>Equal Opportunity Statement:</strong></p> <p><em>Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.</em></p> <p><em>We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.&nbsp;</em></p> <p><em>Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.</em></p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div>