Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer (PH)

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At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from streaming, theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies, and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The Enterprise Technology organization drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

Core Systems & Platforms vision is to design, build, integrate, and deploy highly effective and stable core business systems and platforms for the Enterprise and Corporate Functions. We are responsible for advancing the Business and Enterprise Technology Strategy by creating shareholder value. We lead with a Business Architecture framework and own Core Finance function domain technology roadmap.

**This is an estimated 12-month Project Hire position, with no guarantee of permanent placement.**

What You’ll Do:

As a Senior Quality Software Engineer on the Quality Engineering team, you will be delivering innovative solutions by creating and executing strategic technical direction in support of Enterprise Technology. This will include driving detailed test plans, standards, and testing. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, enjoys technology, is always learning, thrives in a collaborative team environment, and holds themselves and others accountable to a high standard of development. They will need to be able to influence peers and leaders to which they have no direct authority and feel comfortable in situations where they must drive and defend quality. They will need a proven track-record of delivering cohesive testing solutions for integrated complex systems.

The Senior Quality Software Engineer is expected to play a critical role in:

• Working as part of a test team where a project comprises of many components from ideation through implementation.

• Partnering with third-party suppliers to ensure they deliver to their commitments, and to the needs of the business.

• Collaborates closely with partners across the organization including Disney Financial Systems business partners, Ent Tech architects, Core Finance Platform leaders, Human Resource partners, PMO and other delivery managers.

• Providing technical direction and evaluating the quality of deliverables.

• Working closely with technical and non-technical leaders to strategize on delivery approach and dependency management.

• Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones, and deliverable tasks.

• Use metrics, including burn-down charts, to drive performance, efficiency, and forecast improvements.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 7 years of experience in the software development field, with an in-depth understanding of the many aspects involved in the testing process.

• Excellent troubleshooting skills to root cause complex issues.

• Passion for quality with a no line of code written without testing mindset.

• Develop overall testing processes in conjunction with other organizational stakeholders and delivery teams.



• Strong time management skills with a history of meeting commitments.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills Experience collecting, reviewing, and updating requirements and/or user stories.

• Experience writing technical documentation from engineering stories and requirements.

• Related experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components

• Ability to support and drive defect management.

• Strong practice of agile development in a collaborative, dynamic team environment.

• Highly flexible to quickly changing business needs and adoption of new technologies.

• Ability to create and maintain documentation, procedures, and work instructions for development or operations team.

• Ability to communicate to both technical and business users and the ability to gracefully handle passionate conversations.

• Ability to work independently and deliver on agreed upon timelines.

Technical Skills Required:

• Working knowledge of the importance of automation and the correlation to successful testing.

• Knowledgeable of building End-To-End system­wide test scenarios.

• Progressively related experience in design, development, and implementation of highly scalable, high-volume software systems and components.

• Strong knowledge of unit testing, behavioral testing, and continuous integration.

• Working knowledge of qTest tool suite.

• Working knowledge of “Shift-Left” mindset and ability to drive and thrive in this atmosphere.

• Responsible for providing support, as needed, to project test teams.

Soft Skills & Other Requirements:

• The position requires frequent communication with leaders, technical colleagues and partners across several different geographic locations and time zones.

• Proven ability to work with all members of an extended and diverse project team.

• Must be detail-oriented, self-organized, be committed to quality and be capable of tracking multiple issues simultaneously.

• Candidate must have ability to provide oversight and direction to contractors and internal members of the software development team.

• Ability to handle virtual teams and work with resources in multiple sites (onsite, offshore, near shore).

• Excellent time management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Perform deep dive into test delivery and test artifacts.

• Comfortable with providing opinion to ensure quality, even when unpopular.

• Helps formulate and develop effective test architecture to support organizational needs.

• Responsible for working with product delivery teams to ensure epic level requirements are developed.

Required Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

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The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $141,900 - $190,300 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.

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