Software Development Engineer in Test II

The Walt Disney Company • Morrisville, NC

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Software Development in Test Engineer to join their quality engineering team. This role will focus on the Disney Media Player, supporting its quality assurance across various clients and devices. The primary goal is to scale automation and improve quality across streaming platforms by building robust test automation frameworks and quality processes for media player verification on web, mobile, connected TV, and gaming console platforms. The work will ensure a seamless, high-quality streaming experience for millions of viewers, verifying playback integrity and performance across diverse platforms and network conditions. The engineer will help maintain reliable player behavior by identifying integration and service-level issues early in the development cycle. This position offers an opportunity to influence test architecture and drive change within a talented and collaborative team, working on core business pillars with impactful and visible work.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of hands-on software test development experience, including both functional and non-functional test development
• Solid experience with JS/Node, Python, or other modern OO languages
• Experience building or improving test automation frameworks
• Experience in 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)

Nice To Haves

• Passion around driving best practices in the testing space
• Experience with or interest in test automation across multiple device platforms (smart TVs, set-top boxes, mobile, web, gaming consoles)
• Interest in streaming media concepts (playback quality, ABR, DRM, codec behavior)

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the Disney Media Player and its cross-device ecosystem at DEEP&T
• 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.
• Owns the design of software programs or systems within the team, and within the organization.
• Writes codes that establishes and enhances frameworks.
• Reviews code for the design, testability and clear usability.
• Builds solutions that scale and perform.
• Identifies opportunities to improve the system/product/services with each iteration.

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: Mid Level