Software Engineer, Test

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

Job Summary

Job Description

The Quality Assurance (QA) team at Pixar Software R&D is seeking a Software Engineer, Test to own the USD release testing process. Responsibilities include ensuring high-quality public USD releases, collaborating with developers to identify and resolve failures, improving testing workflows for Pixar and the open-source community, and contributing to Pixar's internal software testing. The role involves building open-source testing pipelines in GitHub, engineering efficient quality processes, and strong communication and teamwork skills. This position requires extensive experience with testing frameworks for large applications across Linux, Windows, and macOS, proficiency in Python scripting, and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.
Must have:
  • Cross-platform testing experience
  • USD release testing ownership
  • Strong Python scripting skills
  • CI/CD pipeline expertise
  • Excellent communication
  • Experience with Git and Perforce
Good to have:
  • Jenkins experience
  • VFX studio experience
  • Multi-platform work scheduling framework experience

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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