Software QA Engineer I

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Software QA Engineer I

Waterloo, ON

The Payments platform team supports an annual payment volume of billions globally, and we are just getting started. We are in an industry that is seeing spectacular growth and innovation, and in response, we are re-inventing our payments platform to provide a seamless gaming and purchase experience for our customers.

• Our customers are passionate about our products, and we’re passionate about providing them with the best possible experience.
• We believe that excellence comes from finding talented people and giving them the support they need to thrive.
• We believe that work should be fun, and we strive to create an environment where teams experience satisfying work, personal and professional growth, and good work life balance

About you:

We are looking for a Junior Quality Engineer who can help ensure we’re able to continue to grow our capabilities without negative impact to our passionate user base.

• You possess a drive and passion for quality with the ability to inspire, excite and motivate other team members.
• You have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and can work with others at all levels.
• You’re effective at working with geographically remote and culturally diverse teams.
• Your curiosity drives you to go beyond your immediate assignments and actively learn everything you can about the systems you support. You’re not afraid to ask questions.
• You have associated technology product knowledge, payments industry knowledge and excellent communication skills.

About the role and how you will spend your time:

• Work in an Agile Scrum environment to support quality engineering activities in the payments space
• Work with Senior QE and developers to create test plans for new functionality.
• Write automated test cases to execute test plans
• Work with globally distributed teams to engage early and provide continuous delivery of high-quality software products that delight Sony customers.
• Own the creation and maintenance of test regression and smoke test suites.
• Act as a quality gate and provide release sign-off.

Qualifications:

• BS or MS Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical degree, or equivalent experience.
• 2+ years’ experience as an engineer in test.
• Extensive hands-on technical expertise, including experience with Java.
• Experience with all aspects of software test, including test planning, test automation, load test, failure mode test, etc.
• Experience testing RESTful web services and web applications
• Experience working with build automation and continuous integration tools (e.g., Jenkins).
• Experience with test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cucumber, etc.)
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL and database schema designs.
• Experience reviewing logs in Splunk or similar.
• Ability to estimate effort and size of features
• Experience with agile development methodologies
• Experience using source control (esp. Git) and bug tracking systems in a team environment

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Selenium
• Ecommerce platform domain expertise.
• Experience as a Software Developer

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. 

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