About the role

Lead test automation development for Disney’s media technology. Design and implement test frameworks and mentor engineers while driving quality and innovation across platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead the development and maintenance of test automation suites and its associated pre-production execution environments
Lead the design & implementation of test frameworks by ensuring engineers check in valuable and clean code regularly when adding new features and capabilities
Mentor team, drive increasing quality through innovation, and encourage thoughtful debate and feedback
Successful implementation of solutions for complex technical problems with DE&ET engineering teams and driving the deployment of Disney backend and guest-facing products at Disney Quality
Ownership of the design and development of test automation frameworks and its pipeline
Participate and assist in conducting ceremonies within the full software development lifecycle using agile methodologies such as Scrum
Identify opportunities to improve and build solutions for problems within our full test engineering stack (CI/CD, Service APIs, Reporting, Device Farms, etc)
Review code for the design of tests and drive development of efficient and scalable components through own or by guiding/mentoring junior engineers' work
Serves as a high-level technical resource for test tooling and communicate/present complexity to technical and non-technical audiences

Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field and/or equivalent years of work experience
Minimum of 4+ years of experience in a test automation role, including designing and developing manual and automated tests for front end and backend services using a structured programming language
Experience in automated testing on mobile or living room (OTT) devices
Experience building test frameworks within an enterprise environment, using page object modeling and industry standard drivers such as Selenium or Appium
Expertise in one of the following programming languages: Java, C#, Python
Experience with system and unit testing frameworks (e.g. TestNG, Cucumber, Robot Framework etc)
Experience in validation APIs that drive web, mobile, or living room (OTT)devices
Experience developing/testing applications on cloud platforms (e.g., AWS Device Farm, Sauce Labs)
Experience with Jenkins or other continuous integration/delivery systems
Experience working with Agile methodologies
Excellent collaboration skills and ability to use standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) tools such as Jira and Confluence, version control systems (e.g. Git), and CI/CD tools and pipelines
Excellent problem-solving skills
Organized, detail-oriented and able to deliver project tasks on time
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Highly motivated, self-starting individual.

A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered