Title: Software QA Engineer (Contract) - SNEI LA
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 (SNEI) is a division of the Networked Products and Services Group. Sony Network Entertainment was created to drive vision, strategy and execution for network services across the entire Sony Group, with a goal of offering consumers compelling, connected entertainment experiences across a variety of consumer electronics devices.
Software QA Engineer (Contract)
Los Angeles, CA
Description:
The QAEngineer is responsible for assuring the quality of Sony Network Entertainment's (SNEI) internal and customer-facing applications using mostly manual and some automated testing techniques.This will involve developing, supporting, and extending both existing and new functional test cases. Duties also 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 QAEngineer will rely on his or her background in software testing, software development, system administration, testing frameworks, and associated organizational processes.
The QAEngineer 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:
* Perform manual "black box" testing of SNEI' internal and customer-facing applications.
* Use issue tracking systems such asRallyand test case management tools 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 1-2 years experience performing manual and/or automated software testing in a team environment
* Completed Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related software engineering discipline, or equivalent
* Worked with web application servers such asTomcatand Web servers such asApache
* Excellent verbal and written communications skills
* Team player who does not need extensive supervision
* Ability to work constructively with QA, Developers, Systems and Project Managers towards a common goal
* Good knowledge of MS Windows operating systems and MS Office tools
Desired Skills:
* Experience with Java-based web applications
* Prior experience testing applications integrating with wireless networks
* Prior experience testing embedded software applications
* Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum
* Experience with scripting languages and tools such as PERL
* Experience with XML
* Experience with SQL
Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, legally protected physical or mental disability, covered veteran status, status in the U.S. uniformed services, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information or membership in any other legally protected category.
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