Dolby Careers Staff Engineer QA, PC Apps

The role:

For Dolbys PC Applications you will play a critical role in defining evolving and driving Software Quality Assurance (SQA) strategy across a portfolio of consumer-facing client-side applications used atglobalscale.

As a Staff Engineer SQA youoperateat both strategic and hands-on technical levels. You shape longterm SQA direction design scalable test and automation frameworks and influence engineering and product decisions across multiple teams.

This is a senior technical leadership role focused on impact standards and sustainability. It is not a people management position.

What we offer:

• Work on a portfolio of consumer-facing PC applications with global reach.

• An engineering led Software Quality Assurance culture that values ownership and longterm sustainability.

• Modern development andvalidationworkflows including CI/CD driven quality gates.

• The opportunity to shape SQA strategy frameworks and standards across teams.

• A role with real technical influence andlongtermorganizational impact.

What you will do:

• Define and evolve Software Quality Assurance (SQA) strategy standards andlongtermdirection across multiple PC applications.

• Design own and evolve scalable SQA automation frameworks and validation strategies.

• Establish quality metrics benchmarks and release criteria to enable predictablehighqualitydelivery.

• Identifysystemic quality risks and lead cross-team SQA initiatives to address them.

• Ensure SQA practices are built into development workflows including CI/CDbasedvalidation and quality gates.

• Partner with software engineering product and leadership to influence quality and delivery decisions.

• Act as a technical authority and trusted advisor on SQA topics across the organization.

• Mentor senior SQA and software engineers raising quality awareness and technical standards across teams.

What you bring

Required:

• Deep experience in Software Quality Assurance (SQA) quality engineering or test architecture for complex production grade software systems.

• Strong hands-on experience with SQA automation and quality tooling using scripting or programming languages such as Python.

• Proven ability to design evolve and own SQA automation frameworks and validation strategies across multiple test levels (unit integration systemendtoend).

• Strong understanding of CI/CDdrivendevelopment and SQA validation workflows including quality gates and release readiness.

• Ability to analyze debug and reasonaboutissues inC#basedclient applications even if not writing production application code daily.

• Experience applying SQA practices to client-side consumer-facing applications with high requirements for stability reliability and quality at scale.

• Ability tooperateat both hands-on technical and strategic levels influencing SQA and delivery decisions across teams.

• Strong technical judgment ownership mindset and the ability to communicate SQA risks tradeoffs and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Experience building SQA frameworks or tooling in Python.

• Familiarity with Windows based client application platforms.

• Experience debugging system level or native components (e.g.C dependencies).

• Experience definingorganizationwideSQA standards metrics or release criteria.