at Sony Interactive Entertainment
Location
United States, San Mateo, CA
Compensation
$108k–$162k USD
Type
full time
Posted
1 weeks ago
Market range · company + function + seniority
p25 · target · p75 · n=39
Posted $162k · well below market
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Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?
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.
Do you want to help deliver reliable, high-performing PlayStation® peripherals and firmware? 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 someone who enjoys crafting and running test plans that support product functionality, consistency, and reliability across hardware and software.
This role includes hands-on testing, test case creation, and close collaboration with other QE, developers, and product teams to support smooth, successful feature delivery.
We value curiosity, continuous learning, and a thoughtful approach to quality at every stage.
We test early, often, and across teams to help catch issues before they reach customers.
Write and maintain manual test cases to validate new and existing features
Perform functional, regression, exploratory, and ad hoc testing across PlayStation® systems
Work with QE leads and developers to align test coverage with feature needs
Log and triage defects, verify fixes, and provide clear feedback when running into issues
Participate in feature reviews and share quality insights
Assist with test documentation, planning, and suite organization
We’ll succeed by working together to learn from bugs and build test coverage with intention.
3+ years of experience in software quality engineering or a related testing role
Skilled in writing and running test cases, with confidence in functional, exploratory, and regression testing techniques
Familiar with tools like JIRA, TestRail, or qTest for tracking bugs and managing test documentation
Able to identify and reproduce issues, open concise bugs, and be a clear as well as collaborative communicator
Organized and detail-minded, with experience working in Agile development environments
If you bring any of these, we’d love to hear about them!
Experience testing consumer electronics
Familiarity with PlayStation® products
Experience testing on Microsoft Windows platforms
Passion for gaming
Experience working with telemetry tools or validating event tracking
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about how we process your personal information, and your data protection rights.
At SIE, working with our partners, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.
Please note that the individual base pay range may vary based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.
In addition, this role is eligible for benefit offerings that include medical, dental, and vision. Click here to learn more.
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.
Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
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.
We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.
Sony Interactive Entertainment is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.
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