Senior Software Engineer

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.

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.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Walt Disney Company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Job Summary:
 

As a Senior Software Development in Test Engineer within DEEP&T, you will touch the lives of Disney fans around the world, working on innovative digital products and platforms from Disney, ESPN, National Geographic, ABC, Marvel, Star Wars and more.  You will be a leader on the Quality Engineering team, whose primary goal is continually improving the quality of the products that Disney is known for while decreasing time-to-market and enabling innovation.  This role makes you a stakeholder in every digital property developed and released by the DEEP&Technology group, as well as the platforms and enterprise applications that power them.

As an experienced senior software engineer who has passion to drive quality and productivity into world-class applications and services, you will be an integral part of a small group of talented and driven software engineers dedicated to building test automation, tools, reports, and services that enable product engineering teams to deliver all Disney digital applications with the quality and reliability expected by our guests. 

Responsibilities:

• Developing and supporting test automation frameworks, execution environments, build systems, and reporting tools

• Contributing to the development and maintenance of the architecture for frameworks, execution environments, build systems and tooling used across multiple products

• Independently break large stories until into smaller tasks based on stakeholder requirements

• Designs solutions to and develop architecture for a new project feature, with occasional guidance from more senior engineers

• Maintaining documentation meant for end user consumption as well as project contributor documentation

• Support and mentor developers and manual testers through code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and technical leadership

• Investigating and resolving any framework, tool or execution of environmental issues affecting our services

• Becoming a core member of our Productivity Engineering team, helping others increase productivity through innovation, and championing the core value of Disney Quality

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in a software development Engineer in Test (SDET) occupation, including automated testing of front end and backend services using a structured programming language.

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

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

• Experience with test automation and unit testing frameworks

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, and version control systems.

• Experience leading one to two teams in technical solutioning

• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Highly motivated, self-starting individual

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience developing test automation frameworks in Python

• Experience shipping a production React or Node.js application

• Experience in mobile and web application development and testing

• Experience with developing applications in cloud platforms (e.g., AWS)

• Experience working with Agile methodologies

• Working knowledge of web accessibility fundamentals

• 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 dummy-services)

• Experience with test suite/case/run management tools (e.g., JIRA Xray, etc.)

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The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles, CA is $138,900 to $186,200, for Seattle, WA & New York, NY is $145,400 to $195,000, and for San Francisco is $152,100 to $203,900. 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.