Sr SDET - Ad Systems

Sr SDET - Ad Systems

Job :

Location: Glendale, California;
Santa Monica, California;
San Francisco, California

Business: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Date posted: Nov. 06, 2025

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.

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.

We are seeking a Sr. Software Development in Test Engineer to join our Engineering Services team to build test automation and processes to ensure the quality of our advertising systems.

When our systems work properly, they are able to reliably deliver relevant ads to all of our viewers; driving higher revenue for our business and helping our customers to discover brands and products that are relevant to their interests. Defects in our ad systems can negatively impact revenue and deliver advertisements that detract from the viewer experience due to irrelevance, repetition, and other factors.

This is a unique opportunity to join an excellent team and have a meaningful impact on the QE and automation process and culture, as well as the products we release. As a result, those most likely to excel in this role are independent, creative, and able to operate effectively in ambiguous circumstances.

If you are interested in a testing role with a heavy emphasis on automated testing where the results of your testing will have significant impact on the business and be highly visible to company leadership, then this might be the right opportunity for you!

• Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the complex advertising ecosystem in place at DE&E Technology
• Develop automated test frameworks and suites on UI, API and Integration levels of testing using Python or other object‑oriented 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
• Build architectures that are robust, fault‑tolerant, and cloud‑native; influence and drive software engineering best practices within the team
• Lead and deliver multiple projects utilizing an Agile methodology while reviewing team members’ code. Participate in developing technical and/or business approaches; and new/enhanced technical tools
• Own the design of software programs or systems within the team, write code that establishes and enhances frameworks, review code for design, testability and clear usability, and build solutions that scale and perform. Identify opportunities to improve the system/product/services with each iteration

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands‑on software test development experience, including both functional and non‑functional test development
• Passion for driving best practices in the testing space
• Proficiency with Python or other object‑oriented language
• Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile…