Senior Software Development Engineer in Test - Disney Media Player

The Walt Disney Company • Morrisville, NC

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization focused on building and advancing the technological backbone for Disney’s media business. The team combines technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive innovation and scalability. Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms, including product engineering, media engineering, quality engineering, and the engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity. The DEEP & Technology team is seeking a Sr. Software Development in Test Engineer to join their Engineering Services team. This role will focus on building test automation and processes to ensure the quality of the Disney Media Player across various clients and devices. The ideal candidate is independent, creative, and can operate effectively in ambiguous circumstances, with a strong interest in automated testing and high visibility to company leadership.

Requirements

• 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 JS/Node, Python, or other modern OO languages.
• Experience with test automation across multiple device platforms (smart TVs, set-top boxes, mobile, web, gaming consoles) or eagerness to develop this expertise.
• Familiarity with streaming media concepts (playback quality, ABR, DRM, codec behavior) or interest in developing domain expertise.
• Experience building or improving test automation frameworks.
• Proficiency CICD integration and pipeline development in Jenkins, Spinnaker or other similar tools.
• Experience in Gherkin ( BDD /TDD ).
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams.
• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Computer Science (or equivalent degree or work experience).

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the Disney Media Player and its cross-device ecosystem at DEEP & Technology.
• Develop automated test frameworks and suites on UI, API and Integration levels of testing using JS/Node or other modern languages.
• 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 cross-device.
• Builds solutions for problems of sizeable scope and complexity that have been successfully deployed to customers/users.
• Influences and drives 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.

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.

What This Job Offers

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