Senior Software Quality Specialist

Responsibilities

• Lead quality efforts for our flagship creative app in the role of a Senior Software Quality Engineer on the Projects & Collaboration team for Premiere Pro.
• Help define what outstanding work means.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to spot problems early, develop reliable test frameworks, and ensure customers have the best experience possible.
• Compose, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for Mac and Windows native applications using C++ and/or Type Script.
• Define and drive quality strategies across multiple product teams, influencing engineering culture and guidelines.
• Collaborate with senior engineers alongside product managers to detect risk areas early and develop test plans that ensure detailed coverage.
• Own end-to-end quality for complex desktop features, from functional validation to performance and stress testing.
• Identify, reproduce, and triage bugs with precision — working across codebases to pinpoint root causes and advocate for permanent fixes.
• Champion quality initiatives across the organization, driving continuous improvement in tooling, test infrastructure, and release processes.
• Mentor junior QE team members and lead by example in building a quality-first engineering approach.

• More than 10 years of experience working in software testing or as a software engineer in test
• Strong Type Script/JavaScript skills; full-stack or automation scripting experience is a plus
• Verified expertise in developing and maintaining comprehensive automated test environments for Mac and/or Windows desktop applications
• Sharp analytical instincts — you can isolate intermittent failures, identify patterns in noisy data, and communicate findings clearly
• Experience with performance testing, memory profiling, and debugging tools on desktop platforms
• Hands‑on editing experience with After Effects and Premiere Pro
• Working experience with AI assistant tooling such as Claude, Copilot, and/or ChatGPT
• Passion for quality as an engineering field — not just finding bugs, but preventing them
• Collaborative approach: comfortable working across teams, asking hard questions, and giving direct feedback
• Desire to stay curious and keep learning as tools, platforms, and user expectations evolve.