$140,500 – $210,700
Listed on Bend Studio’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Test quality assurance engineer for machine learning systems at PlayStation, focused on validating probabilistic models and building automated test frameworks for ML inference services. Suits someone with backend testing expertise who wants to specialize in ML validation and work across distributed, high-scale systems.
Our summary, not Bend Studio’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache JMeter
- API Testing
- ArgoCD
- CI/CD
- Databricks
- Datadog
- Docker
- Gatling
- GitHub Actions
- Go
- Grafana
- Grafana K6
- Java
- Jenkins
- JUnit
- Kubernetes
- Postman
- Prometheus
- Pytest
- Python
- Scala
- Seldon Core
- SQL
- TestNG
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- 3+ years SDET experience with backend systems
- Proficiency in Python, Java, Scala, or Go
- API testing tools experience (e.g. Postman)
- CI/CD pipeline familiarity (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
- Automated test framework experience (pytest, JUnit, TestNG)
- Database experience for backend validation
- Cloud and container technology experience (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker)
- Monitoring and observability tools knowledge (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- Understanding of SDLC and agile methodologies
- Problem-solving and communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience testing machine learning systems (recommendation, search ranking, probabilistic systems)
- Synthetic or seeded test data creation for realistic behavior simulation
- Statistical analysis and distribution-based model output evaluation
- Data pipelines, feature stores, or inference system knowledge (Seldon, KServe, Ray Serve)
- High-RPS, low-latency online service testing
- Performance and load testing tools (Locust, k6, Gatling, JMeter)
- Databricks or similar ML platform experience