Senior Software Quality Engineer

Adobe

Senior Quality Engineer responsible for quality strategy and test execution in Premiere Pro. Collaborating with developers and teams across engineering to ensure rendering pipeline excellence.

Posted 5/24/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $113,400 - $221,750 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptJenkinsPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own quality strategy and execution for features and workflow areas within Premiere Pro and other pro apps.
Create test plans for complex rendering, playback, editing, color, and export workflows.
Evaluate user impact, functionality, performance, and regression risks across feature work and bug fixes.
Partner closely with developers to understand system changes, impacted workflows, and appropriate validation approaches.
Validate behavior across media format types, codecs, frame rates, resolutions, bit depths, pixel formats, effects, sequences, and hardware configurations.
Use and extend automation to ship features with high confidence at high velocity.
Help define and improve performance metrics, dashboards, automation coverage, and regression detection.
Participate in design reviews and advocate for testability, reliability, and user-centered quality.
Share testing knowledge, quality practices and repeatable processes with adjacent teams and help break down work for other QE team members when needed.
Collaborate across engineering, product, automation, performance, and partner teams to improve release confidence.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6–8+ years of quality engineering experience, ideally on complex desktop, creative, media, graphics, or performance-sensitive applications.
Strong QE fundamentals: test planning, requirements analysis, risk assessment, regression testing, root cause analysis and overall quality ownership.
Working knowledge of video concepts such as codecs, media formats, frame rate, resolution, pixels, bit depth, color as well as familiarity with modern video editors.
Experience running, debugging, and writing automated tests using TypeScript, JavaScript, Python.
Experience owning quality for large features, product areas, or complex multi-functional initiatives.
Experience testing both functional correctness and performance-sensitive workflows.
Ability to partner effectively with developers and understand technical abstractions, system behavior, and implementation risk.
Familiarity with CI systems such as Jenkins, and command-line test workflows.
Ability to interpret metrics, dashboards, logs, automation results, and performance signals.
Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate risk, influence decisions, and represent the user experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

test planningrequirements analysisrisk assessmentregression testingroot cause analysisautomated testingTypeScriptJavaScriptPythonvideo concepts

Soft Skills

quality ownershipcommunicationcollaborationinfluence decisionsarticulate risk