Hybrid Software Developer In Test – Backend

at The Walt Disney Company

• Job title: Software Developer In Test – Backend
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $95,300 - $127,800 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Django, Docker, Flask, Grafana, Java, JavaScript, Kafka, Kubernetes, Node.js, Python, React, SDLC, Spinnaker
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Santa Monica, United States

About the role

• Software Development in Test Engineer contributing to quality engineering for Disney’s digital products and platforms. Collaborating with software engineers and developing automated test frameworks to enhance product quality.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the complex ecosystem in place at DEEP&T
• Develop automated test frameworks and suites on UI, API and Integration levels of testing using java, 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
• Developing and supporting high quality code to build and enhance automation, quality infrastructure, and innovative proof-of-concepts
• Investigating and troubleshooting issues across our services and driving them to resolution
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of infrastructure, frameworks, and pipelines that verify backend services and APIs across multiple products

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related technical field or equivalent years of professional experience.
• 3 years of relevant experience in a software development (SDET, SE, SRE) occupation, including automated and/or unit testing of front end and/or backend services
• Experienced in object-oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Node/JavaScript
• Experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies
• Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, and version control systems.
• Experience shipping production Python, Flask, Django, React or Node.js applications.
• Experience with developing and deploying applications in cloud platforms (e.g. AWS) and optimizing cost efficiency.
• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Kinesis
• Experience writing Gherkin Syntax to facilitate the development of automated test scenarios.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems.
• Experience with testcase and/or issue management (e.g. JIRA, Xray), code management (e.g. git, SonarQube) and data visualization (e.g. Grafana, Data Dog) tools.

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.