The Walt Disney Company

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, SDET

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York, Washington

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Salary

💰 $138,900 - $203,900 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerJavaJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesNode.jsPythonReactRustSDLCSpinnaker

About the role

  • As a Senior Software Development in Test Engineer (SDET) 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.
  • Leader on the Quality Engineering team, whose primary goal is continually improving the quality of products while decreasing time-to-market and enabling innovation.
  • Stakeholder in every digital property developed and released by the DEEP&Technology group, as well as the platforms and enterprise applications that power them.
  • Build test automation, tools, reports, and services that enable product engineering teams to deliver all Disney digital applications with expected quality and reliability.
  • Develop and support test automation frameworks, execution environments, build systems, and reporting tools
  • Contribute to development and maintenance of architecture for frameworks, execution environments, build systems and tooling used across multiple products
  • Break large stories into smaller tasks based on stakeholder requirements
  • Design solutions and develop architecture for new project features, with occasional guidance
  • Maintain documentation for end user consumption and project contributors
  • Support and mentor developers and manual testers through code reviews, knowledge-sharing, and technical leadership
  • Investigate and resolve any framework, tool or execution of environmental issues affecting services
  • Become a core member of the Productivity Engineering team, helping others increase productivity through innovation, and championing Disney Quality.

Requirements

  • 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.)