Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

About the Role & Team

Disney Streaming’s Data QE team is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test who will be an extraordinary addition to our team! You will be contributing to delivering service platform enhancements to our Data Experience Team. You will enhance our existing test automation suite and engineer efficient, scalable, and maintainable test infrastructure. The right person has a strong attention to detail, is intellectually curious, takes accountability and ownership for the definition and delivery of high-quality work. The right person also demonstrates a strong sense of collaboration in their work and professional relationships, clearly and thoughtfully communicates in their areas of expertise, identifies problems, and acts strategically to craft a solution, and empathizes with and advocates for the needs of customers. If you are someone who effectively moves between high-level concepts and low-level execution, then this is a great role for you!

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 for the Data Experience team

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

• 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 Data Experience team

• 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.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years of progressive experience in a software testing (SDET) and/or software development (SDE) occupation, including automated/manual testing of UI Applications

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

• Knowledge of at least one backend test automation frameworks (TestNG/BDD)

• 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

• Some experience with Jenkins or similar build tools

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

• 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

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA is $145,400 - $195,000 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.