QA Engineer

The Walt Disney Company • Nicasio, CA

18h • Hybrid

About The Position

At Skywalker Sound, we are redefining the frontier of audio post-production through advanced technology. Our enterprise platform spans from core networking infrastructure to intuitive operator GUIs, delivering secure, high-performance tools to elite media organizations worldwide. We're seeking a Software Quality QA Engineer who brings deep technical fluency, hands-on automation skills, and a passion for system reliability across the full stack. As the QA Engineer you’ll take ownership of designing and maintaining automated testing pipelines that support CI/CD across a large-scale distributed software platform. This includes writing test suites and unit tests, validating complex technical outputs like audio, metadata, and containerized payloads, and ensuring system-wide integrity through continuous integration with GitLab. This role is considered Hybrid, which means the employee will work 2-3 days onsite at our Nicasio office and occasionally from home.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years in QA engineering, SDET, or DevOps test automation roles.
• Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD, Docker, and Git workflows.
• Strong scripting and test development skills (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Experience designing and executing automated tests using tools such as PyTest, Golang Test, GTest, or custom scripts.
• Familiarity with containerized and distributed systems, especially in media production environments.
• Ability to validate technical media asset outputs (e.g., WAV/MXF/MOV integrity, metadata conformity, latency thresholds, multichannel routing).
• Deep understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with media and post-production workflows, especially Avid Pro Tools, FFMPEG, and audio/video transcoding systems.
• Exposure to test automation in cloud-based or hybrid infrastructures (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with networking protocols, file transport validation, or REST/gRPC testing.
• Prior experience building test infrastructure for enterprise SaaS products.
• Knowledge of industry media standards (MXF, ADM BWAV, TTML, Dolby Atmos, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated test pipelines integrated into GitLab CI/CD.
• Author and maintain unit, integration, and system-level test suites across microservices and client-facing applications.
• Analyze and validate complex media outputs (e.g., audio renders, session metadata, container integrity) to meet professional audio standards.
• Collaborate closely with DevOps, software engineering, and infrastructure teams to ensure test coverage across backend, frontend, and infrastructure components.
• Build custom tooling and test harnesses to validate performance, concurrency, and edge cases in media and networking workflows.
• Monitor and report on test results, coverage gaps, and regressions through dashboards and automated reporting.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to quality and testability improvements across the codebase.
• Maintain knowledge of the latest testing strategies, automation frameworks, and media validation tools.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level