Senior Manager, Software Development Engineer in Test

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Senior Manager Software Development Engineer in Test

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Job Description:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disneys past present and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers product developers designers technologists data scientists and more all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disneys media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products enhance storytelling and drive velocity innovation and scalability for our are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we think youd love working here:

Building the future of Disneys media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come. Reach Scale & Impact: More than ever Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories storytellers and events they carry matter to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

Product Engineering is a unified team responsible for the engineering of Disney Entertainment & ESPN digital and streaming products and platforms. This includes product engineering media engineering quality engineering and the engineering behind personalization commerce lifecycle and identity.

Job Summary:

The DEEP & Technology team is seeking a highly experienced Senior Manager (M3) to lead and scale our Quality Engineering organization supporting various commerce data and advertising this role you will provide strategic operational and technical leadership across multiple quality engineering teams ensuring robust test automation reliability and business impact at scale. You will develop and execute a quality strategy that drives measurable improvement in system reliability speed of delivery and product excellence partnering closely with executives engineering leadership and cross-functional business units.

Ideal candidates are visionary people leaders with a proven track record of growing high-performing teams implementing transformational quality programs and delivering significant value in complex and rapidly evolving environments.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

Organizational Leadership & Transformation

• Lead inspire and develop multiple quality engineering teams and people leaders (managers/technical leads) fostering a culture of technical excellence inclusion and continuous learning.
• Define the multi-year vision and strategic roadmap for quality engineering across the advertising platform aligned with company business and technology goals.
• Champion organizational transformation driving the adoption of best-in-class practices tools and quality metrics at scale.

Technical Thought Leadership

• Set the technical direction for large-scale test automation architecture cloud-native solutions and intelligent testing initiatives (AI/ML-driven testing autonomous pipelines etc.).
• Sponsor and guide the evolution of shared automation frameworks tools and platforms across product and engineering teams.
• Ensure timely resolution and prevention of high-severity outages through organizational postmortems root cause analysis and systemic improvements.

Strategic Planning & Execution

• Develop communicate and execute the quality engineering strategy across multiple product groups balancing innovation risk and operational needs.
• Oversee resource planning hiring and organizational design to ensure scaling and allocation of quality engineering talent to meet evolving business needs.
• Take ultimate responsibility for quality governance compliance and traceability across all product lines within your scope.

Cross-Functional & Executive Partnership

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with senior leadership in engineering product management data science product operations and business teams.
• Articulate quality risks trade-offs and long-term strategies to executive stakeholders; provide regular reporting on quality metrics and organizational outcomes.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to ensure test automation and quality engineering are embedded early and effectively throughout the development lifecycle.

Required Education Experience/Skills/Training:

• 10 years of experience in software quality engineering test automation or software development with 5 years managing managers or leading multi-team organizations
• Proven track record of scaling and transforming quality engineering functions in complex cloud-native high-scale environments
• Demonstrated experience defining and driving organizational strategy advocating for quality at the senior/executive level and influencing business outcomes
• Expertise in modern test automation frameworks CI/CD and emerging trends in software quality
• Knowledge of software engineering practices and agile approaches
• Strong desire for establishing and improving product quality
• Experience conducting security and performance tests for identity and access management systems and platforms
• Hands on experience testing (manual and automated) identity and access management systems and platforms
• Advanced proficiency with Python or modern OO languages; experience with ad-tech or large-scale systems is a plus
• Willingness to take challenges head on while being part of a team
• Strong communication stakeholder management and mentoring skills
• B.S. in Computer Science (or equivalent degree or work experience)

The hiring range for this position in California is $171600 - $230100 per year and in New York is $179700 - $241000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates 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.

Job Posting Segment:

Content Platforms & Operations

Job Posting Primary Business:

CPO - Infrastructure Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Quality Assurance Engineering

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

Santa Monica CA USA

Alternate City State Region Postal Code:

USA - NY - 7 Hudson Square

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