Why Sony Interactive Entertainment?Sony Interactive Entertainment is the company behind the PlayStation brand and a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation. We are a dynamic technology company delivering cutting‑edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people, while also creating and nurturing some of the world’s most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties. Our mission is to create and nurture experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity.
We are looking for a creative, diligent Senior Software Engineering Manager who will drive the engineering teams that research and develop the next generation of PlayStation’s testing technology—including automation tools, frameworks and CI infrastructure used to analyze the quality of front‑end workflows on the PS5.
As a Senior Manager of Software Engineering (Quality Engineering), you will lead and develop a team responsible for ensuring high‑quality software delivery across multiple products and platforms. This role shapes quality strategy, drives engineering excellence, and enables efficient, reliable release processes. You will work cross‑functionally and lead a distributed team across multiple locations, embedding quality practices throughout the development lifecycle. The position entails collaboration with quality management leadership, internal departments, and open‑source software communities. Together we will build an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking and cohesive teamwork. You will also work closely with peers and leadership to establish project prioritisation, team goals and overall quality.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed team of quality engineers across multiple products and platforms.
- Manage and support remote team members, fostering effective collaboration across geographically dispersed teams.
- Define team member development and career path opportunities and mentor them to achieve goals.
- Monitor and review performance, delivering regular performance appraisals.
- Manage team capacity planning, hiring, onboarding and ensure effective succession planning.
- Lead day‑to‑day activities of engineering team using Agile/Scrum methodology.
- Define and implement quality engineering strategy, vision and best practices to support reliable and efficient software delivery.
- Partner with product and development teams to define test strategies, acceptance criteria and release plans.
- Identify, assess and communicate risks to delivery timelines and product quality.
- Lead all aspects of delivery for general technical architecture and infrastructure to support continued development of projects, including tools and pipelines.
- Research and craft new tools to overcome inefficient processes by automating work.
- Advocate for reducing technical debt, improving test coverage and maintaining engineering standards.
- Lead retrospective analysis of activities and champion continuous process improvement.
What we’re looking for
- At least five years in a people‑management role, with proven success in mentorship and preferably experience supervising people managers.
- Effective leadership of multiple Agile teams in quality and testing engineering domains (software engineering managers with deep testing experience may also apply).
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including presentations to senior leadership, product managers, software engineers, project managers and customers.
- Significant experience with software engineering practices, automation and testing systems (e.g., Jenkins).
- Proficient in Python programming; sufficient C++ experience to provide guidance in larger architectural discussions and occasional code review.
- A solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and proven software methodologies to reduce technical debt in testing.
Nice‑to‑haves
- Machine learning background.
- Prior experience with console or PC game development.
- Past experience with cloud computing and containerization.
- Development and debugging tools experience on Windows.
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