Software Engineer II

Software Engineer II

About the Role & Team

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. 

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

1. Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

2. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally.

3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

What You Will Do

• Collaborate daily with software developers, product owners, and program managers to define requirements and ensure testability

• Develop scalable automated testing strategies and coordinate feedback from your collaborators

• Define/implement/maintain test automation

• Introduce effective quality methodologies to the organization’s automation strategies and expand/improve existing automation

• Collaborate closely with partner teams to understand upstream/downstream dependencies and to facilitate development of integration/end-to-end tests

• Contribute to the release process for the supporting teams

• Diagnose/debug/perform root cause analysis for issues in production/test environments, report defects, champion/drive/advocate for their resolution, and provide visibility/transparency into the value of your work

• Propose regression tests to discover recurring issues and drive the tests to 'automation complete'

• Create/maintain test data for automated testing and navigate through databases to analyze issues

• Identify gaps and drive improvements in engineering methodologies to ensure industry-leading system quality and team efficiency

• Apply software engineering best practices and agile approaches. Basic

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 3+ years of progressive experience in a software testing (SDET) and/or software development (SDE) occupation, including automated testing of backend services and REST APIs

• Proficient in object-oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages: Node, JS, Java, Python

• Knowledge of at least one backend test automation frameworks (E.g., REST Assured, pytest etc.)

• Experience working with version control software (E.g., GitHub) and issue/project tracking software (E.g., Jira)

• Experience working with software development/debugging tools (E.g., Postman, curl, Chrome dev tools)

• Experienced in defining/executing/maintaining test cases and experience with building out test plans for backend services

• Experience with SQL queries, stored procedures, and data analysis/validation

• Some experience with Jenkins or similar build tools

• Good understanding of quality-related agile methodologies and tools and validated experience using both during the SDLC

• Strong verbal and written communication skills (E.g., whiteboarding/diagramming system behavior)

• Proven experience demonstrating analytical skills, reporting, ownership, customer focus, and collaboration

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Kinesis

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems

• Experience writing Gherkin Syntax to facilitate the development of automated test scenarios

• Experience developing advanced mocking mechanisms (E.g., rule-based proxies and dummyservices)

• Experience with test suite/case/run management tools (E.g., XRay, etc.)

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $125,800 - $168,700 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.