Software Engineer, Test

2 Months ago • All levels • Quality Assurance • $131,495 PA - $170,170 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Pixar's Quality Assurance (QA) team seeks a Software Engineer, Test to own the USD release testing process. Responsibilities include ensuring high-quality public USD releases, collaborating with developers and partners to resolve issues, improving testing workflows for internal and external teams (including building open-source pipelines on GitHub), participating in internal software testing, and engineering efficient quality assurance processes and software. The role requires strong communication, teamwork, and a passion for quality, along with expertise in cross-platform testing, testing frameworks, Git/Perforce, scripting (Python), and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/GitHub).
Must have:
  • Ownership of USD release testing
  • Collaboration with developers & partners
  • Improving testing workflows
  • Cross-platform testing expertise
  • CI/CD pipeline experience
  • Proficiency in Python scripting
  • Git/Perforce version control
  • Strong communication skills
Good to have:
  • Jenkins experience
  • VFX studio experience
  • Multi-platform scheduling framework

Job Details

Job Summary:

The Quality Assurance (QA) team within Pixar Software R&D owns the quality of internally-developed software delivered to Pixar's artists. Additionally, the QA team is responsible for ensuring high-quality public releases of Pixar's open source Universal Scene Description (USD) project. The team is growing to tackle additional USD support responsibilities. We are looking for candidates with a strong understanding of cross-platform testing methodologies and a desire to engage and support the USD community in addition to artists at Pixar.

What you'll be doing:

  • Taking ownership of the USD release testing process from end to end, ensuring high quality public USD releases

  • Working with Pixar developers and our 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

What you have:

  • 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 haves:

  • 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

The hiring range for this position in Emeryville is $131,495.00 to $170,170.00 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.

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