Sr SDET - Content Data Solutions

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s 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 Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world‑class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are storytellers and innovators, creators and builders, entertainers and engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s 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 you’d love working here:

• Building the future of Disney’s media: Our technologists design and build the products and platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach, Scale & Impact: Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans’ connections with the company’s brands and stories—Disney+, Hulu, ESPN, ABC, ABC News, and many more. These products and brands matter to millions globally.
• Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and solve complex technical problems.

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

The DE&E Technology team is looking for a Sr. Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our expanding quality engineering efforts across the Ads, Data, and eCommerce domains. As part of our mission to scale automation and enhance quality across diverse systems, this role will focus on building robust test automation frameworks and quality processes tailored to each team’s unique needs.

In Ads, your work will help ensure that ad delivery systems serve relevant, timely, and high‑quality advertisements, maximizing both viewer satisfaction and business revenue. For Data, you’ll ensure the integrity and performance of large‑scale pipelines that power analytics and insights. In eCommerce, you’ll help maintain seamless shopping experiences by catching integration and service‑level issues early in the development cycle.

When these systems work as intended, they drive better customer experiences, increase trust in our platform, and reduce costs associated with bugs in production. As a Sr. SDET, you will play a crucial role in strengthening test automation strategies, leading quality initiatives, and championing a culture of engineering excellence.

This is a great opportunity to be part of a talented and collaborative team, with the autonomy to influence test architecture and the support to drive meaningful change. The ideal candidate is innovative, proactive, and thrives in dynamic, fast‑paced environments.

If you’re excited by the opportunity to shape quality across core pillars of our business and want your work to be impactful and visible at all levels, we’d love to hear from you.

This is a Hybrid role requiring 4 days onsite (Monday‑Thursday) in one of the following office locations:

• Santa Monica, CA
• Glendale, CA
• Seattle, WA

• Work closely with Software Engineers to understand the complex ecosystem at DE&E Technology.
• Develop automated test frameworks and suites on UI, Data, API, and Integration levels using Python or other OO language.
• Participate in design discussions to evolve the platform, enabling richer testing scenarios that simplify defect detection and prevention.
• Assist with triage, diagnosis, and resolution of issues discovered across teams.
• Contribute to end‑to‑end acceptance tests.
• When necessary, develop and execute manual test cases to detect issues that cannot be detected through automation.
• Drive conversion of manual tests to automated…