Opportunity:
The video rendering team owns the high-performance rendering pipeline that powers Premiere Pro, an industry-leading non-linear video editing application used by millions of creators around the world.
We are constantly evolving the core rendering architecture toward an innovative, scalable, and performance-first pipeline. As a Senior Quality Engineer working on the rendering pipeline, you will help ensure that features and optimizations ship with confidence at velocity. You will be a guardian of quality and the voice of the user, validating functionality, performance, and workflow impacts across complex video editing scenarios.
Responsibilities:
- Own quality strategy and execution for features and workflow areas within Premiere Pro and other pro apps.
- Create test plans for complex rendering, playback, editing, color, and export workflows.
- Evaluate user impact, functionality, performance, and regression risks across feature work and bug fixes.
- Partner closely with developers to understand system changes, impacted workflows, and appropriate validation approaches.
- Validate behavior across media format types, codecs, frame rates, resolutions, bit depths, pixel formats, effects, sequences, and hardware configurations.
- Use and extend automation to ship features with high confidence at high velocity.
- Help define and improve performance metrics, dashboards, automation coverage, and regression detection.
- Participate in design reviews and advocate for testability, reliability, and user-centered quality.
- Share testing knowledge, quality practices and repeatable processes with adjacent teams. and help break down work for other QE team members when needed.
- Collaborate across engineering, product, automation, performance, and partner teams to improve release confidence.
Required Skills:
- 6-8+ years of quality engineering experience, ideally on complex desktop, creative, media, graphics, or performance-sensitive applications.
- Strong QE fundamentals: test planning, requirements analysis, risk assessment, regression testing, root cause analysis and overall quality ownership.
- Working knowledge of video concepts such as codecs, media formats, frame rate, resolution, pixels, bit depth, color as well as familiarity with modern video editors.
- Experience running, debugging, and writing automated tests using TypeScript, JavaScript, Python.
- Experience owning quality for large features, product areas, or complex multi-functional initiatives.
- Experience testing both functional correctness and performance-sensitive workflows.
- Ability to partner effectively with developers and understand technical abstractions, system behavior, and implementation risk.
- Familiarity with CI systems such as Jenkins, and command-line test workflows.
- Ability to interpret metrics, dashboards, logs, automation results, and performance signals.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate risk, influence decisions, and represent the user experience.
Expected Pay Range:Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $113,400 -- $221,750 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.
In California, the pay range for this position is $153,200 - $221,750In Washington, the pay range for this position is $142,500 - $206,275
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