Software Engineer II

Software Engineer II
About the Role & Team
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology's Engineering Services team is seeking a Software Engineer with a passion for developing and testing performant, highly available frameworks and tools with modern technologies. Our team collaborates with both technical and non-technical teams to deliver innovative and effective experiences for our clients. As a developer in test, you'll build and deploy critical frameworks, test automation, pipelines and tools and collaborate with many different engineering, DevOps and QA teams. If you are innovative and passionate about building and testing software, we would love to meet you!
What You Will Do

• Collaborate daily with software developers, product owners, and program managers to define requirements and ensure testability
• Develop scalable automated testing strategies and coordinate feedback from your collaborators
• Define/implement/maintain test automation
• Introduce effective quality methodologies to the organization's automation strategies and expand/improve existing automation
• Collaborate closely with partner teams to understand upstream/downstream dependencies and to facilitate development of integration/end-to-end tests
• Contribute to the release process for the supporting teams
• Diagnose/debug/perform root cause analysis for issues in production/test environments, report defects, champion/drive/advocate for their resolution, and provide visibility/transparency into the value of your work
• Propose regression tests to discover recurring issues and drive the tests to 'automation complete'
• Create/maintain test data for automated testing and navigate through databases to analyze issues
• Identify gaps and drive improvements in engineering methodologies to ensure industry-leading system quality and team efficiency
• Apply software engineering best practices and agile approaches.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 3+ years of progressive experience in a software testing (SDET) and/or software development (SDE) occupation, including automated testing of backend services and REST APIs
• Proficient in object-oriented design and expertise with one of the following programming languages: Node, JS, Java, Python
• Knowledge of at least one backend test automation frameworks (E.g., REST Assured, pytest etc.)
• Experience working with version control software (E.g., GitHub) and issue/project tracking software (E.g., Jira)
• Experience working with software development/debugging tools (E.g., Postman, curl, Chrome dev tools)
• Experienced in defining/executing/maintaining test cases and experience with building out test plans for backend services
• Experience with SQL queries, stored procedures, and data analysis/validation  Some experience with Jenkins or similar build tools
• Good understanding of quality-related agile methodologies and tools and validated experience using both during the SDLC
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (E.g., whiteboarding/diagramming system behavior)
• Proven experience demonstrating analytical skills, reporting, ownership, customer focus, and collaboration

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with Kafka, Amazon SQS, and Kinesis
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and continuous integration/delivery systems
• Experience writing Gherkin Syntax to facilitate the development of automated test scenarios
• Experience developing advanced mocking mechanisms (E.g., rule-based proxies and dummyservices)
• Experience with test suite/case/run management tools (E.g., XRay, etc.)

Education

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

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $125,800 - $168,700 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.