Senior SDET

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:

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

Engineering Services designs, builds, and sustains technology that powers DE&E Technology’s worldwide content production and distribution platforms. In doing so, they contribute to a series of cross-functional services and technologies, including Quality Assurance, Data Analytics, Software Development, Broadcast Infrastructure, and Networking & Security. The Quality Engineering team validates all Disney-built software before production, including web, mobile, living room applications, media, services, non-consumer-facing products and more.

As a member of our team, you will strive to accomplish the following goals:

• Lead the development and maintenance of test automation suites and its associated pre-production execution environments.
• Lead the design & implementation of test frameworks by ensuring engineers check in valuable and clean code regularly when adding new features and capabilities.
• Mentor team, drive increasing quality through innovation, and encourage thoughtful debate and feedback.
• Successful implementation of solutions for complex technical problems with DE&ET engineering teams and driving the deployment of Disney backend and guest-facing products at Disney Quality.

Responsibilities:

• Ownership of the design and development of test automation frameworks and its pipeline.
• Participate and assist in conducting ceremonies within the full software development lifecycle using agile methodologies such as Scrum.
• Identify opportunities to improve and build solutions for problems within our full test engineering stack (CI/CD, Service APIs, Reporting, Device Farms, etc)
• Review code for the design of tests and drive development of efficient and scalable components through own or by guiding/mentoring junior engineers' work.
• Serves as a high-level technical resource for test tooling and communicate/present complexity to technical and non-technical audiences.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field and/or equivalent years of work experience
• Minimum of 4+ years of experience in a test automation role, including designing and developing manual and automated tests for front end and backend services using a structured programming language.
• Experience in automated testing on mobile or living room (OTT) devices.
• Experience building test frameworks within an enterprise environment, using page object modeling and industry standard drivers such as Selenium or Appium
• Expertise in one of the following programming languages: Java, C#, Python
• Experience with system and unit testing frameworks (e.g. TestNG, Cucumber, Robot Framework etc).
• Experience in validation APIs that drive web, mobile, or living room (OTT)devices.
• Experience developing/testing applications on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS Device Farm, Sauce Labs).
• Experience with Jenkins or other continuous integration/delivery systems.
• Experience working with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, version control systems (e.g. Git), and CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Highly motivated, self-starting individual.

Preferred Qualifications

• Smart TV or OTT device development experience
• Experience developing advanced mocking mechanisms (e.g., rule-based proxies and dummy-services).
• Experience leading team of engineers distributed in various locations onshore and offshore.

The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $117,500-157,500 per year, and in Seattle and New York is $123,000-165,000 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.