SDET Contractor

1 day ago

San Diego, CA, USAMid Level

H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

Develop and execute quality engineering strategies and test plans for Agentic AI systems, backend services, APIs, and integrations.
Design and maintain automated frameworks for API, functional, integration, contract, regression, and end-to-end testing.
Develop evaluation approaches for non-deterministic AI behavior and assess accuracy, relevance, groundedness, consistency, and expected behavior.
Test AI workflows, guardrails, tool invocation, failure handling, prompt-based attacks, APIs, data sources, and downstream services.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates, metrics, and release-readiness visibility.
Investigate distributed-system failures, analyze defects and production issues, and identify root causes and testing gaps.
Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and quality engineering teams to improve testability, observability, and product quality.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
4+ years of experience in SDET, Quality Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
Strong experience testing REST APIs, backend services, microservices, distributed systems, and service-to-service integrations.
Hands-on experience developing automated tests with Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or a similar programming language.
Experience with functional, integration, regression, contract, and end-to-end testing and automated test framework development.
Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and using Git-based development workflows.
Hands-on experience testing Generative AI, LLM-powered applications, or Agentic AI systems, including non-deterministic behavior.
Strong analytical, debugging, root-cause-analysis, software testing methodology, and risk-based testing skills.
Preferred experience includes Agentic AI workflows, AI evaluation techniques and tools, RAG systems, Pact, OpenAPI/Swagger, event-driven architectures, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, and performance, scalability, reliability, or resiliency testing.

Medical, dental, and vision benefit offerings are available.
The role is a contractor position and is paid hourly at an estimated base rate of $58–$72 per hour.
Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for new employees.