Senior Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

Job Summary:

Describe what the person will do in the role - how he/she will impact the organization.

As a member of our team, you will strive to accomplish the following goals:

• Contributing to the successful implementation of solutions for complex technical problems with DE&E Technology engineering teams.
• Owning the development and maintenance of two or more functional areas of core test automation, execution environments, build systems, and tooling used across multiple products.
• Contributing to the successful design & implementation of one or more project features.
• Providing strategic input on future initiatives with stakeholders and other engineers.
• Contributing to and collecting data to inform Key Performance Indicators used for defining project statuses and effectiveness.
• Check-in valuable, clean code daily that adds new features and capabilities.
• Becoming a member of our Quality Engineering team, increasing quality through innovation, automated test creation, curiosity, and thoughtful debate.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Builds solutions that scale and perform. Identifies opportunities to improve the system/product/services with each iteration.

• Typically owns software programs and multiple components within the team.
• Developing and supporting test automation frameworks, execution environments, build systems, and reporting tools.
• Drives development of component through own and more junior engineers' work.
• Work with product and development teams to implement a full stack quality solution.
• 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.
• Identifies problems and opportunities and recommends the development of solutions.
• Decisions and actions regularly have a moderate influence on the work of team members, other teams or assigned projects.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• Bachelor’s degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in a software development (SDE) occupation, including automated testing of front end and backend services.
• Proficient in object-oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages: Python, Node/JavaScript, Java.
• 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:

• Experience shipping a production Python, Flask or Django application.
• Experience in mobile 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.).