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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.\nSDET Contractor\nWe are looking for an experienced Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to help ensure the quality, reliability, and resilience of Agentic AI systems and backend services. This role will design and implement automated testing strategies across AI/LLM-driven applications, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.\nThe ideal candidate brings strong Quality Engineering and test automation fundamentals, with experience testing Generative AI, LLM-based, or Agentic AI systems. They should be comfortable testing complex systems where behavior may be non-deterministic and traditional pass/fail testing alone may not be sufficient.\nResponsibilities\nDevelop and execute comprehensive QE strategies and test plans for Agentic AI systems, backend services, APIs, and service integrations.\nDesign and maintain scalable automated test frameworks across API, functional, integration, contract, regression, and end-to-end testing.\nDevelop testing approaches for non-deterministic AI behavior and establish meaningful evaluation criteria.\nIdentify quality risks early and apply risk-based, shift-left testing practices throughout the development lifecycle.\nIntegrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and establish effective quality gates.\nPartner with Software Engineers, Product Managers, and other QE teams to improve testability, observability, and overall product quality.\nAnalyze defects and production issues to identify root causes, testing gaps, and opportunities for continuous QE improvement.\nEstablish quality metrics and provide visibility into test coverage, reliability, defects, and release readiness.\nWhat You'll Do\nTest Agentic AI workflows, including multi-step execution, tool selection and invocation, task completion, and failure handling.\nValidate AI-generated responses using appropriate measures for accuracy, relevance, groundedness, consistency, and adherence to expected behavior.\nTest AI guardrails, unexpected inputs, and failure scenarios, including incorrect tool usage and prompt-based attacks.\nValidate interactions between AI agents, APIs, tools, data sources, and downstream services.\nDevelop reusable automation, test data, and evaluation scenarios for repeatable AI and services testing.\nValidate API contracts, schemas, authentication, business rules, error handling, and service integrations.\nInvestigate failures across distributed systems and distinguish application, integration, environmental, automation, and AI-related issues.\nParticipate in defect triage, root-cause analysis, regression testing, and release-readiness activities.\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n4+ years of experience in Software Development Engineering in Test, Quality Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.\nStrong experience testing REST APIs, backend services, microservices, or distributed systems.\nHands-on experience developing automated tests using Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or a similar programming language.\nExperience with functional, integration, regression, contract, and end-to-end testing.\nExperience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.\nStrong analytical, debugging, and root-cause-analysis skills.\nExperience working in an Agile development environment and collaborating across engineering teams.\nRequired Skills\nStrong understanding of software testing methodologies and Quality Engineering practices.\nStrong API and services testing experience, including REST, JSON, schemas, authentication, and error handling.\nExperience designing and maintaining automated test frameworks.\nExperience with Git and CI/CD development workflows.\nAbility to develop risk-based test strategies and identify appropriate testing layers.\nExperience testing distributed systems and service-to-service integrations.\nHands-on experience testing Generative AI, LLM-powered applications, or Agentic AI systems.\nUnderstanding of testing non-deterministic AI behavior and evaluating outputs beyond exact-match assertions.\nPreferred Skills (Good to have)\nExperience testing Agentic AI workflows, including planning, multi-step execution, tool calling, memory, or state management.\nExperience with AI evaluation techniques such as evaluation datasets, semantic evaluation, LLM-as-a-Judge, groundedness, relevance, or hallucination detection.\nExperience with AI/LLM evaluation or observability tools such as LangSmith, DeepEval, Ragas, Arize Phoenix, Promptfoo, or similar technologies.\nExperience testing RAG systems or AI agents interacting with APIs, databases, or external tools.\nExperience with contract testing tools such as Pact and API specifications such as OpenAPI/Swagger.\nExperience with event-driven architectures, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, or cloud platforms such as AWS.\nExperience with performance, scalability, reliability, or resiliency testing.\nExperience establishing QE metrics, quality gates, or cross-team testing standards.\nSony 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.\nWe strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.\nWe sincerely appreciate the time and effort you spent in contacting us and we thank you for your interest in PlayStation.\nAt 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. \nPlease note that the individual base pay range may vary based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.\nIn addition, this role is eligible for benefit offerings that include medical, dental, and vision. Click here to learn more.\nThe estimated base pay range for this role is listed below, this is an hourly rate.\n$58—$72 USD\nPlease 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.\nPlease refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice (where applicable) for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights.\nEqual Opportunity Statement:\nSony 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.\nWe strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. 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