Senior Software Engineer, Quality Engineering

Job Summary :

A high number of candidates may make applications for this position, so make sure to send your CV and application through as soon as possible.

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.).

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