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Team Lead, Quality Assurance
Pixar
Emeryville, CA, United States
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Pixar’s QA team supports the studio’s mission of providing the best possible software tools to our animators and TDs in a fast-paced production driven environment. The QA Lead is responsible for identifying areas of focus for the team and mentoring other engineers to more efficiently track down, debug, and prevent issues from reoccurring.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Lead the QA team in deploying high-quality releases for tools used by artists at Pixar
• Help drive adoption of software development best practices across the studio
• Coach and mentor QA engineers to efficiently track down issues, determine severity, and work with engineers across tools and production to identify root causes and improve test coverage to prevent regressions
• Work directly with stakeholders to identify and mitigate risks for upcoming software releases
• Collaborate closely with platform engineering team to identify improvements to testing and deployment tooling.
• Monitor, triage, and expedite resolution of high-priority issues
• Debug issues and write clear, concise, reproducible bug reports
• Test and stage studio hardware, driver, and OS updates
• Support and maintain Pixar’s bug tracking tool set
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Prior experience leading teams and / or project management experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to tailor communication to both technical and non-technical users, and the ability to empathize with and advocate for the needs of both users and developers
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work in a fast-paced production environment
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Extensive experience with automated testing of complex applications
• Strong Python and shell scripting experience
• Extensive experience working in a Linux environment
Bonus Points if you have:
• Manual user interface testing experience
• Experience debugging C++ applications
• Interest in data analytics to help identify and prioritize issues
• Experience with Jira, Git, Perforce, Elastic/ELK Stack
• Linux system administration skills, especially using RHEL/CentOS