Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world. 

Here are a few reasons why we think you’d love working here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

• Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter to millions of people globally. 

• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering, media engineering, quality assurance, engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.

Job Summary:

The DE&E Technology team is looking for a Sr. Software Development in Test Engineer to join our expanding quality engineering efforts across the Ads, Data, and eCommerce domains. As part of our mission to scale automation and enhance quality across diverse systems, this role will focus on building robust test automation frameworks and quality processes tailored to each team’s unique needs.
In Ads, your work will help ensure that ad delivery systems serve relevant, timely, and high-quality advertisements, maximizing both viewer satisfaction and business revenue. For Data, you’ll ensure the integrity and performance of large-scale pipelines that power analytics and insights used across the organization. In eCommerce, you’ll help maintain seamless shopping experiences by catching integration and service-level issues early in the development cycle.
When these systems work as intended, they drive better customer experiences, increase trust in our platform, and reduce costs associated with bugs in production. As a Sr. SDET, you will play a crucial role in strengthening test automation strategies, leading quality initiatives, and championing a culture of engineering excellence.
This is a great opportunity to be part of a talented and collaborative team, with the autonomy to influence test architecture and the support to drive meaningful change. The ideal candidate is innovative, proactive, and thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments.

If you’re excited by the opportunity to shape quality across core pillars of our business and want your work to be impactful and visible at all levels, we’d love to hear from you.

Role Location: This is a Hybrid role requiring 4 days onsite (Monday-Thursday) in one of the following office locations:

• Santa Monica, CA

• Glendale, CA

• Seattle, WA

Responsibilities include:

• 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.    

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training:

• 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 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)

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The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA and Santa Monica, CA is $117,500 - $157,500 per year, and in Seattle, WA is $123,000 - $165,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.