Hybrid Senior SDET – Content Data Solutions

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Senior SDET – Content Data Solutions
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $117,500 - $157,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Jenkins, Python, Selenium, Spinnaker, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Santa Monica, United States

About the role

• Sr. SDET designing and building automated testing frameworks for media-related technologies at Disney. Collaborating with software engineers to enhance quality across diverse systems.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the complex ecosystem in place at DE&E Technology
• Develop automated test frameworks and suites on UI, Data, API and Integration levels of testing using python or other OO language
• Participate in design discussions for our platform to help evolve the platform in a way that enables richer testing scenarios that simplify defect detection and prevention
• Assist with triage, diagnosis, and resolution of issues discovered across teams.
• Contribute to end-to-end acceptance tests
• Where necessary, develop and execute manual test cases to detect issues that cannot be detected through automated means
• Drive the conversion of manual tests to automated whenever possible
• Part of product teams in building architectures which are robust, fault-tolerant, and cloud-native.
• Build solutions for problems of sizeable scope and complexity that have been successfully deployed to customers/users.
• Influence and drive software engineering best practices within the team
• Technically lead and deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile methodology while reviewing team members code.
• Participates in developing technical and/or business approaches; and new/enhanced technical tools.
• Own the design of software programs or systems within the team, and within the organization.
• Write codes that establishes and enhances frameworks.
• Review code for the design, testability and clear usability.
• Build solutions that scale and perform.
• Identify opportunities to improve the system/product/services with each iteration.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on software test development experience, including both functional and non-functional test development
• Passion around driving best practices in the testing space
• Proficiency with Python or other OO language
• Strong proficiency in SQL and experience writing complex database queries
• Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile approaches
• Strong desire for establishing and improving product quality
• Experience building or improving test automation frameworks
• Proficiency in CICD integration and pipeline development in Jenkins, Spinnaker or other similar tools
• Proficiency in UI automation (Selenium, Robot, Watir)
• Experience in Gherkin (BDD /TDD)
• Willingness to take challenges head on while being part of a team
• B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent degree or work experience).

Benefits

• 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.