What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer, Test position at The Walt Disney Company?
Job Title: Software Engineer, Test
Location: Emeryville, California, United States
About Pixar Animation Studios:
Pixar Animation Studios is an Academy Award-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation.
The Northern California studio has created some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time, including "Toy Story," "Monsters, Inc.]," "Cars," "The Incredibles," "Ratatouille," "WALL•E," "Up," "Toy Story 3," "Brave," "Inside Out," and "Coco." Its movies have won 35 Academy Awards and have grossed more than $13 billion at the worldwide box office to date.
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences.
From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Taking ownership of the Universal Scene Description (USD) release testing process from end to end, ensuring high-quality public USD releases.
- Working with Pixar developers and external partners to identify the root cause of failures in internal software and third-party USD integrations.
- Improving testing workflows for USD developers at Pixar and in the open source community, including building open source testing pipelines in GitHub.
- Participating in Pixar's internal software testing process, including determining the cause of automated test failures.
- Engineering new and more efficient ways to bring quality to Pixar's software via process and software development.
Requirements:
- Strong communication and teamwork skills, and a strong desire to help others solve technical problems.
- Passion for quality and maintaining the highest standards in software development.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and respond quickly and efficiently to multiple issues and tasks.
- Extensive experience deploying, extending, and maintaining testing frameworks for large applications targeting multiple platforms including Linux, Windows, and macOS.
- Experience with Git and Perforce version control systems.
- Proficiency with scripting languages, particularly Python.
- Familiarity with configuration and deployment of continuous integration pipelines in GitLab/GitHub (GitLab Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines).
Nice to Have:
- Experience deploying tests in a multi-platform work scheduling framework like Jenkins.
- Prior experience testing or supporting software at a VFX studio or software vendor.
