Sr QA Analyst

Walt Disney; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 128,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a leading entertainment company as a Senior QA Analyst, where you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality of media workflows that deliver beloved content to millions. This position offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance the viewing experience. You'll be involved in planning QA strategies, executing tests, and working closely with engineering teams to resolve issues. If you're passionate about media technology and want to make a significant impact in a vibrant environment, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Medical Benefits

Financial Benefits

Bonus Opportunities

Long-term Incentives

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA with deep expertise in media workflows.
• Experience with media asset management and vendor solutions.

Responsibilities

• Plan QA tasks and manage team assignments.
• Conduct functional and regression testing for media applications.
• Coordinate with vendors and document test cases.

Skills

Media Workflows

Media Supply Chain

QA Testing

Jira

Media Asset Management

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Equivalent Work Experience

Tools

Evertz Mediator

Signiant’s Reach Engine

Telestream

Imagine

SDVI

Aspera

Job description

Job Posting Title:

Sr QA Analyst

Req ID:

10106851

Job Description:

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Media Engineering is an innovative organization that is passionate about providing the best possible video playback experience, art, and metadata to customers worldwide, powered by exceptional technology. This work requires streamlining and repurposing technology across different business and distribution channels – including streaming, linear, and theatrical – so that technology can ebb and flow across the needs of the business.

As part of the Broadcast & Content Services team, we are proud to be responsible for linear, video-on-demand (VOD), and non-linear delivery (NLD) media workflows delivering thousands of Disney-owned Sports, General Entertainment, and News assets daily to service providers (MVPDs, vMVPDs, SVOD) worldwide, including Disney streaming services.

This role will join the Broadcast & Content Services organization as the senior engineer of the team which develops, operates, and maintains media workflows supporting media supply chains for US domestic networks and studios owned by TWDC. We seek an individual who can develop and execute test plans, manage QA resources, and is comfortable in cross-functional interactions with teams in charge of the other parts of the media supply chain.

Responsibilities:

• Plan the QA teamwork and assignments.
• Test scripting and execution based on functional specifications.
• Hands-On participation in the functional and regression testing for applications such as (but not limited to) Mediator, MediaHub, BPM, SDVI.
• Coordination with engineering on testing requirements and issue solving.
• Working with the vendor development team to report and verify bugs.
• Define test scope for each testing cycle.
• Working with QA team members offshore.
• Using Jira for defect tracking and test execution.
• End to End testing for workflows that span across multiple applications.
• Documenting test cases for new functionalities.
• Demo and train offshore QA members when new functionalities are implemented.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in a similar role
• Bachelor’s degree, and/or equivalent work experience
• Deep expertise of Media Workflows and Media Supply Chain, including broadcast/VOD playout systems.
• Highly proficient with Media Asset Management systems and workflow orchestrators such as Evertz Mediator and Signiant’s Reach Engine.
• Experience with 3rd party vendor solutions from Telestream, Imagine, SDVI, Evertz, Signiant, and Aspera.
• Deep knowledge of broadcast and VOD standards.
• Preferred expertise with internal Disney tools such as Media Hub.
• Excellent verbal and written communicator, able to interact with leadership and business partners daily.

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA and Santa Monica, CA is $95,300.00 to $127,800.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s 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:

Media Engineering

Job Posting Primary Business:

ME - Media & Metadata Acquisition & Syndication Services

Primary Job Posting Category:

Quality Assurance Analyst

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Glendale, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

USA - CA - 2500 Broadway Street

Date Posted:

2024-11-21