Software Engineer, Test

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.