Staff QA Engineer — Cinema Imaging Leader (On-site SF)

Via Licensing Corporation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Every other Friday off

Competitive compensation and benefits

On-site hardware labs

Job summary

Dolby is seeking a Staff QA Engineer to lead testing for next-generation cinema imaging products in the San Francisco lab. This role combines hands-on validation with strategic QA leadership across hardware and software, including projectors, servers, networking, and related infrastructure.

You will own test strategy, lab readiness, configuration, and release-quality reporting, while mentoring QA engineers and advancing AI-assisted QA tools for improved coverage.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in quality assurance, systems testing, or related engineering field with release ownership.
• Leading QA for video, imaging, projection, display, or cinema hardware-software systems.
• Hands-on lab experience configuring and testing integrated cinema systems.
• Experience implementing Python-based test automation and CI/CD integration.
• Familiarity with Linux/Windows, test frameworks, and lab instrumentation.
• Ability to collaborate with external partners for test alignment and releases.
• Strong leadership, planning and communication for multiple programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA strategy and end-to-end test ownership for cinema imaging products from development to release.
• Design and maintain cinema labs and test environments with projectors, servers, networks, and instruments.
• Perform functional, integration, system, interoperability, performance, and regression testing.
• Develop test plans, cases, matrices, and release criteria based on requirements and risk.
• Own picture-quality validation, calibration, color processing, and multi-projector workflows.
• Troubleshoot complete cinema systems and drive issues to resolution with engineering.
• Provide technical leadership across concurrent programs and report quality risks to stakeholders.
• Coordinate with external projector/hardware partners for test standards and releases.
• Produce defect reports, lead triage and verification of fixes, mentor junior QA engineers.

Skills

Python based test automation

CI/CD integration

Lab hardware testing

Linux/UNIX proficiency

Windows proficiency

Leadership

QA for video imaging systems

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Imaging Science, or related field

Tools

Python

PyTest

Jira

qTest

Git

Perforce

Selenium

HDMI/SDI tools

AI Tools (Claude, Copilot)

Job description

Dolby is seeking a Staff QA Engineer to lead testing for next-generation cinema imaging products in the San Francisco lab. This role combines hands-on validation with strategic QA leadership across hardware and software, including projectors, servers, networking, and related infrastructure.

You will own test strategy, lab readiness, configuration, and release-quality reporting, while mentoring QA engineers and advancing AI-assisted QA tools for improved coverage.