Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology
Technology is at the heart of Disneyâs past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more â all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disneyâs 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.âŻWe are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companyâs media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
- Building the future of Disneyâs 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, Disneyâs technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the companyâs brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC NewsâŚand many more. These products and brands â and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry â 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 engineering, and the engineering behind personalization, commerce, lifecycle, and identity.
Job Summary:
The DEEP & Technology team is looking for a 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 teamâs 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, youâll ensure the integrity and performance of large-scale pipelines that power analytics and insights used across the organization. In eCommerce, youâll 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 an 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 youâre 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, weâd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities include:
- Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the complex ecosystem in place at DEEP&T
- Develop automated test frameworks and suites on UI, 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
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
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Part of product teams in building architectures which are robust, fault-tolerant, and cloud- native. 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
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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.
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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 thesystem/product/serviceswith each iteration.
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Bachelorâs degree or the foreign equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field or equivalent years of work experience.
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Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in hands-on software test development experience, including both functional and non-functional test development
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Passion around driving best practices in the testing space
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Solid experience with Python or other OO language
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Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile approaches
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Strong desire for establishing and improving product quality
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Experience building or improving test automation frameworks .
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Experience in CICD integration and pipeline development in Jenkins, Spinnaker or other similar tools.
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Experience in UI automation ( Selenium, Robot, Watir)
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Experience in Gherkin ( BDD /TDD )
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Willingness to take challenges head on while being part of a team
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