Title: Senior QA Automation Engineer
Location: CA-Los Angeles
Sony Corporation of America, based in New York, NY, is the U.S. subsidiary of Sony Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Sony is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its motion picture, television, computer entertainment, music and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment and technology companies in the world.
Sony Network Entertainment International LLC (SNEI), a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, is the premier provider of digital entertainment. Through the Sony Entertainment Network portal, consumers around the world are able to access their favorite digital entertainment conveniently and instantly on their favorite connected devices. SNEI offers the latest and highest quality music, video, and game content through Sony Entertainment Network as well as PlayStation Network while also delivering third-party services. In addition, SNEI provides a compelling consumer experience through innovative content discovery features and a simple user interface that is globally consistent, yet locally relevant.
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Los Angeles, CA
Description :
The Senior QA Automation Engineer is responsible for assuring the quality of Sony Network Entertainment (SNEI) internal and customer-facing applications using automation as well as manual black-box and gray-box testing techniques. Duties include trouble-shooting and resolving test code, 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 Automation Engineer relies on his or her extensive background in software development, QA, system administration, script automation, frameworks, and associated organizational processes.
The Senior QA Automation Engineer is a member of the QA team, reports to the Automation Manager of Quality Assurance, and collaborates closely with the Development and System Infrastructure teams.
* Develop, execute, and maintain automation scripts using Selenium and/or SilkTest
* Perform both black box and gray box testing of SNEIs 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 asRally, source control tools such asPerforce and SVNas well as test case management systems such asSilk 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.
* Minimum of 5 years experience with automation scripting usingSelenium and/or SilkTest
* A minimum of a Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related software engineering discipline, or equivalent
* Strong knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as:JAVA, 4Test
* Experience with web application servers such asTomcat,and Web servers likeApache
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
* Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum
Desired Skills:
* Experience using enterprise-level Issue Tracking systems such asRally,Devtrack
* Experience performing automated software testing in a team environment usingSelenium, and/or SilkTest
* Experience with XML, Perl
* Experience testing applications integrating with Wireless Networks, or embedded software knowledge
* Knowledge of performance testing using tools such as SilkPerformer
* Thorough knowledge of MS Windows operating systems
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