Senior Test Automation Engineer

About the Role & Team

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. This role is part of the International Application Services (IAS) team. Our mission is to provide business technology solutions for the enterprise that empower growth, and enhance value across brands, geographies and organizations.

The Software & QA Engineering group is responsible for excellence in engineering, implementing and operating business systems and processes in support of the enterprise. The group leads with a culture of clean code and architecture, continuous improvement, innovation and automation.

The candidate for this role is a technologist at heart with a deep understanding of modern software testing practices and automation frameworks used to ensure the quality and reliability of applications across the business value chain. This role will be expected to build and maintain a comprehensive test automation infrastructure, as well as contribute to the design and implementation of robust, scalable test solutions using a variety of programming languages and testing tools. They will work closely with developers and product teams to embed quality at every stage of the software development lifecycle and ensure that software assets are delivered with high reliability and performance. 

Job Responsibilities

• Define QA requirements, user story specifications, architecture, design & specifications and test conditions for our new programmatic platform

• Design, build, and improve our testing automation framework using industry standards

• Actively participate in planning, estimation, and prioritisation processes to ensure QA perspective across the software development lifecycle

• Implement BDD methodology aligned with TDD

• Drive Automation across all areas in testing (Unit, Spec, API, Integration, Infrastructure, etc…)

• Enable Automation in the CI/CD pipelines

• Champion the Release Management from the Custom Applications point of view

• Build and maintain a QA reporting capabilities (Living Docs, Test reports)

• Work with other Software and Platform Engineers to ensure consistent end to end coverage

• Research new technologies and propose improvements ongoing

• Serves as escalation point for technical problems and maintenance for Support team

• Supporting the team with QA (Quality Assurance), Regression Testing, SIT (System Integration Testing) and UAT (User acceptance testing) phases of an implementation

Job Skills

• Microsoft .Net (C#)

• Microsoft SQL Server (T-SQL)

• Web Frameworks: React or similar

• Javascript

• TDD: Nunit or similar (XUnit, JUnit, etc…)

• BDD: Specflow or similar (Gherkin)

• API: Postman

• CI/CD: GitLab pipelines and Octopus Deploy or similar (Jenkins, TeamCity, etc…)

• Shell: Powershell or similar (Bash)

Desired

• Azure or AWS experience

• Terraform knowledge

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.