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Sr. QA Engineer- SMSS- SD | Sony | San Diego, CA

Sony is one of the most recognized and respected brand names in the world. Sony is the leading manufacturer of premier, state-of-the-art audio, video, communications and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.  Its creative, music, motion picture, television, computer, entertainment and online businesses, make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies for the broadband era.

Sony Media Software & Services (SMSS) is a division of Sony Corporation of America, a leading entertainment company of audio, video, communications and information technology products, for consumer and professional markets. The Network Platform group for SMSS provides infrastructure systems for services such as registration, billing, customer service tools, and storefront management tools for PLAYSTATION®Network.

Sr. QA Engineer San Diego, CA

The Senior QA Engineer is responsible for assuring the quality of Sony Media Software and Services' (SMSS) internal and customer-facing applications using manual black-box and gray-box testing techniques as well as some automated test scripts. Duties include trouble-shooting and resolving test environment and infrastructure issues, as well as working with test case management, issue tracking, source control, database, requirements management, reporting, and other tools.

In the course of performing this function, the Senior QA Engineer will rely on his or her extensive background in software development, QA, system administration, script automation, frameworks, and associated organizational processes.

The Senior QA Engineer is a member of the QA team, reports to the Manager of Quality Assurance, and collaborates closely with the Development and System Infrastructure teams.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Work with product, business, and development teams to develop test plans and strategies.
  • Perform both 'black box' and 'gray box' testing of SMSS' internal and customer-facing applications by analyzing applications and requirements and designing and executing test cases.
  • Integrate, support, use and maintain issue tracking systems such as Devtrack. source control tools such as Perforce and test case management systems such as Silk Central Test Manager
  • Work with QA team members, software developers and system and database administrators to trouble-shoot test failures in the various test environments.  This may include trouble-shooting database issues using SQL queries, reviewing web server and application server logs, etc.

Required Background and Skills:
  • Minimum of 5 years experience performing manual and automated software testing in a team environment
  • A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related software engineering discipline, or equivalent
  • Experience with web application servers, such as Tomcat and Web servers such as Apache
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • A team player who does not need extensive supervision
  • Ability to work constructively with developers, QA, Systems and Project managers towards a common goal
  • Solid knowledge of Relational Database and SQL queries
  • Thorough knowledge of MS Windows operating systems

Desired Skills:
  • Experience testing applications integrating with Wireless Networks, or embedded software knowledge
  • Experience using enterprise-level Issue Tracking systems such as Devtrack
  • Experience with Java application development
  • Experience performing automated software testing in a team environment using SilkTest, WinRunner, QTP, or Selenium
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum
  • Experience with scripting languages and tools such as PERL
  • Experience with XML

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  All persons shall have the opportunity to be considered for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, obligation to serve in the armed forces of the United States, citizenship, disabled veteran status, Vietnam, era status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.

To apply for this position, please copy and paste the following link into your browser address bar:

http://sony.contacthr.com/13544882

or submit your resume and salary requirements through our homepage at

http://sony.hodesiq.com/careers/apply_online_1.asp?jobid=1605207



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