Quality Assurance Engineer

Description

About Pixar:

Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award®-winning film studio with world-renowned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation. Creator of some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and most recently, WALL-E. The Northern California studio has won 21 Academy Awards® and its nine films have grossed more than $4.5 billion at the worldwide box office to date. The next film release from Disney/Pixar is UP (May 29, 2009).

Summary of Position:

Pixar's Studio Tools QA Team is looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to participate in our software quality assurance efforts.

This position requires close collaboration with the engineering and production staff to test Pixar's proprietary in house toolset. In this position you will write, execute, and automate black box level test plans and test cases and provide bug triage support to technical users. Other responsibilities include reporting on test progress, status, and coverage, as well as meeting test completion and delivery milestones that you help define.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute test plans and test cases
- Contribute to setting and evaluating milestone criteria such that product is released on schedule with high quality
- Design and implement quality processes for a small team of senior software developers
- Work closely with the development team during all phases of the product life cycle
- Provide direct customer-facing support to technical production users in triaging bug reports, documenting reproducible steps and prioritizing support issues
- Continually research new technologies and incorporate that new knowledge into your ongoing QA process