Senior Software Development Engineer in Test; SDET

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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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 touchpoints serving millions of people around the world.

Reasons to Love Working Here

• Building the future of Disney’s 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, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans’ connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News and many more. These products and brands – and the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – 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.

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Development in Test Engineer (SDET) within DEEP&T, you will touch the lives of Disney fans around the world, working on innovative digital products and platforms from Disney, ESPN, National Geographic, ABC, Marvel, Star Wars and more. You will be a leader on the Quality Engineering team, whose primary goal is continually improving the quality of the products that Disney is known for while decreasing time‑to‑market and enabling innovation.

This role makes you a stakeholder in every digital property developed and released by the DEEP&Technology group, as well as the platforms and enterprise applications that power them. As an experienced Senior Software Development in Test Engineer who has passion to drive quality and productivity into world‑class applications and services, you will be an integral part of a small group of talented and driven software engineers dedicated to building test automation, tools, reports, and services that enable product engineering teams to deliver all Disney digital applications with the quality and reliability expected by our guests.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support test automation frameworks, execution environments, build systems, and reporting tools.

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the architecture for frameworks, execution environments, build systems, and tooling used across multiple products.

• Independently break large stories into smaller tasks based on stakeholder requirements.

• Design solutions and develop architecture for new project features, with occasional guidance from more senior engineers.

• Maintain documentation for end‑user consumption as well as project contributor documentation.

• Support and mentor developers and manual testers through code reviews, knowledge‑sharing, and technical leadership.

• Investigate and resolve any framework, tool, or execution environment issues affecting our services.

• Become a core member of our Productivity Engineering team, helping others increase productivity through innovation, and championing the core value of Disney Quality.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) occupation, including automated testing of front‑end and back‑end services using a structured programming language.

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s Degree and/or equivalent work experience.

• Proficient in object‑oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages:
Node/JavaScript,…